Stephen Gray's blog

New NICVA site goes live www.nicva.org

big thanks to Feargal O'Kane, Chris Graham and Paul Gormley for making it happen.  

kudos to NICVA's information and communications team - Caroline Magee, Fiona Veitch and john McCormick for the unenviable job of sorting the content out.

www.nicva.org is the last of NICVA's websites to be ported to the drupal framework/CMS.    

Biggest thanks to all of those in the drupal community - as a small non profit organisation NICVA wouldn't be able to provide the range of online services we have without you.

DrupalCampBelfast site is live and ready for registrations

http://belfast.drupalcampireland.org

the lads did an exceptional job in getting the site live.  It was primarily done in everyone's own time apart from an initial day and sporadic bouts of emergency fixes.

www.communityni.org is live.

Background

Migrate data from MS SQL based CMS to Drupal 6

1,500 news articles
3,000 events
3,300 jobs
400 volunteering opps
5,000 organisations

Approach

use node import module
export content as CSV files - basic node requirements
import body content or extra fields via SQL updates

Organisations

Some clients experiencing delays when switching from one entity view to another eg

organisations > contacts
topics > projects.

this fix worked on CRM3 - tried on CRM4 and seems to work as well.

comes from:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.crm/browse_thread/thread...

NB path for CRM4 is:   _static/_common/_scripts/stage.js

Just recovering from a weekend at Galway drupalcamp. http://groups.drupal.org/node/18452

there was a great vibe, and was a great weekend.  I'm not sure if we learned anything new about drupal specifically but we learned a lot of other stuff.

the best outcome was that two non-profits ended up with drupal sites built in one day - a great acheivement by the teams.

http://www.zikomo.org/
http://www.ruralsa.ie/

*.nvram file This file contains the CMOS/BIOS for the VM. The BIOS is based off the PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6 and is one of the most successful and widely used BIOS and is compliant with all the major standards, including USB, PCI, ACPI, 1394, WfM and PC2001. If the NVRAM file is deleted or missing it will automatically be re-created when the VM is powered on. Any changes made to the BIOS via the Setup program (F2 at boot) will be saved in this file. This file is usually less then 10K in size and is not in a text format (binary).

Now that CRM can handle mailmerge properly - ie using data from multiple related entities i took the opportunity to improve the membership administration process.  in addtion. the create entity on workflow allowed me to generate the new year's transactions. 
Meeting with Denise and Frances to review and get a snag list.

Membership renewals for 09/10

email router
The Microsoft Exchange MAPI subsystem is not installed on this system.ExchangeMapiCdo.EXE

Currency mapping
Creating child records where a currentcy field is mapped wouldn;t work ie Event Participants and subscription history.  Remap and inlcude currencyID and all ok.

custom icons

Javascript nav items on org and contact forms

workflows

default contact view - my active rather than active