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Missing more menu options three dots/vertical ellipsis (⋮) within administration interfaces

If you have CiviCRM shoreditch extension enabled on your site than try adding below line in your theme css file .crm-container span.btn-slide { display: unset !important; } Thanks Pradeep
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How Can I Remove "CiviCRM - " From Page Titles?

If you just want the site name as the title, you can filter it: // add filter only when basepage has been parsed add_action( 'civicrm_basepage_parsed', 'my_override_civi_title' ); function ...
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4 votes

CiviEvent Widget: Event Title Not Showing on Event Info Page

This is a bug in CiviEvent Widget - though an understandable one. The widget uses CRM_Utils_System::url() to construct URLs to the CiviEvents but -- when the widget is viewed on a page/post where ...
Christian Wach's user avatar
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Add new custom field column

If you're talking about the contact basic and advanced search results, you can add the field to a profile and set that to be used at Administer > Customise Data and Screens > Search Preferences &...
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Hide contact types from WordPress cms users

I think ACLs should be able to resolve your requirement, you just have to reverse your thinking, so the Group who you want to give limited access to do NOT get given 'Access all Contacts' (or whatever ...
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Missing more menu options three dots/vertical ellipsis (⋮) within administration interfaces

Shoreditch is officially designed to work with 5.24.2 so expect issues when running it with the latest CiviCRM security release. You may just want to disable it!
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CiviCRM Status/Connection Show 404 Not Found

The issue was due to the fact i was using FPM applicated server by nginx instead of FPM applicated server by Apache. I am not sure how to find a work around using NGINX but it is working now, thank ...
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How to patch / add a plugin to Joomla CiviCRM?

What version are you on now? That patch is in 5.12.0 so your easiest option may be to upgrade to that version.
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Beyond provide a profile of an instance's stack, what is the purpose of Connections?

It is described a little bit here: https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-16173 Seems like the intent is a generic framework. I believe this link is a reference implementation of how to write a ...
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How to enable "Manage Extensions?"

On some of our (older but since upgraded) instances the Manage Extensions still shows under Admin > Customise, rather than Admin > System Settings - just in case your is there, but just not where you ...
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How to control which activity types options appear in dropdown when creating new activity in WP version

Certain activity types are reserved by the system for certain purposes. You cannot directly create an "Inbound Email" activity, for example, because those are created by the email processor in CiviCRM....
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Status Error and blank status page

I just fixed this issue on a site I was working on. Hopefully it helps you as well. My issue was directory permissions. You need to make sure that all of your directories have permissions set to ...
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CiviEvent Widget: Event Title Not Showing on Event Info Page

When I try an event page the two ways (one from the events listing under Get Involved, one from going thru the donate page's sidebar), the URLs for the same pages are different. One has: http://test....
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Unable to make backend contributions with non-default payment processor (sometimes) "no class provided" error

Okay, first remind me to never exclude my iATS extension from being part of the problem ... Karin tracked this down to the point in the (core) code where the list of available payment processors are ...
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Latest 'Note' field is not being used in the "Profiles - Admin Notification" email template

Rather than using "Notes", consider creating an activity instead - and instead of using Profiles, use Caldera Forms with CiviCRM integration to create the Activity. There are several advantages, ...
Jon G - Megaphone Tech's user avatar
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Get Admin email notifications for system status changes

There is nothing such available at the moment as i am aware of which can be configured inside CiviCRM but can be developed by writing a small extension using hooks to implement schedule job. But ...
Pradeep Nayak's user avatar
2 votes

CiviCRM edit history for different users

If you have logging switched on you should be able to find this in the log tables. If you do not have logging switched on I do not think you can find this. You can check your logging at Adminster>...
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I want Theme developer to have admin access to WP but not civicrm, is that possible?

I wouldn't hire an IT person who thinks it's ok to do development on a live site. You always do development and testing on a COPY of the site. See also https://codex.wordpress.org/...
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Show first name and then last name in activity search results

Depends on what you want exactly. You can define the way in which the display name and sort name are constructed in Administer>Customize Data and Screens>Display Preferences. But that will ...
ErikH - CiviCooP's user avatar
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Write failed: No space left on device

Your root filesystem on /dev/sdb1 shows as 100% in use which is where your /opt/bitnami/php/var/run/session is probably located and makes sense of the error message you are getting. You either need to ...
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What does the CiviCRM Administration UI or civicrm_admin_ui actually do?

At the moment it's just Custom Groups and Custom Fields. But I expect this extension to be short-lived as an extension - soon every page in civi will be a search kit. I'm joking a little bit but ...
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No admin page for civiCRM on Drupal 8 install (Xampp on Windows 10)

Check the console if any error is showing and make sure your civicrm.settings.php file has correctly set Base URL path (CIVICRM_UF_BASEURL) and $civicrm_paths['civicrm.files']['url']. In my case it ...
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CiviCRM admin menu not visible in Wordpress

Turns out the problem is related to the latest install of the UK Gift Aid extension v 3.4.4. Disabling the extension brings back the menus.
Marian Zastawny's user avatar
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Get Admin email notifications for system status changes

Here's a one liner you can put in a cron script. You might want to make the call to mail more robust or flesh the whole thing out a bit, but the gist is you can call api System.check and examine the ...
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Track activities and changes that were made in civicrm by staff

Under administer - system settings - misc you can turn on logging which tracks changes. Also if using drupal turning on the statistics module is sometimes helpful in seeing what people have been ...
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How to patch / add a plugin to Joomla CiviCRM?

Aidan's answer is a good one in your case! However, the general process is this: If you have command-line access to the server running CiviCRM Find the URL of the patch. As you note, in this case ...
Jon G - Megaphone Tech's user avatar
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Errors only randomly on admin pages

This is most likely happen on the page load after you press the "Fix Missing Indices" button on the Administration Status page. A more permanent automated fix is being worked on, but is fairly ...
Jon G - Megaphone Tech's user avatar
1 vote

"view contact" not updating when changes are made

Band-aid solution: Found out that it was our web-browser's cache that was causing this problem, both in Chrome and Firefox. Chrome offers no way to turn caching off (except in development mode), so ...
John Hampton's user avatar
1 vote

Python Civicrm API Keeps Giving 404 Error

The URL was wrong like, @user4278 suggested. It should have been: sitename.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/rest.php
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Can't set 'Force Secure URLs'

You almost certainly want to upgrade your version of CiviCRM at least to 4.6, due to security concerns. If you're already forcing https for all Civi pages via WP (or via apache/.htaccess, or any ...
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