Torenware Networks

I've had a bit of time to work on CiviNode, and have made major improvements in its CCK support in the last couple of weeks. I'd be very happy to get a few testers for this, especially if you've been waiting for a new version.

You can download it here. It's for Drupal 5.1 only.

The readme file is below. You'll definitely want to read this, since this is a test release that will require you to patch a CiviCRM 1.7 install.

19 April 2007

This is a test version of CiviNode to get feedback on two new features:

1) A new CCK widgets module that is hopefully both simpler and more
"future proof" than civicrmdata.module, which this will likely
replace.

2) Improved contact autocompletion, which integrates CiviCRM's new
Dojo AJAX widget set into Drupal's CCK system.  You'll need to patch
CiviCRM 1.7 slightly to test this.  The patch is included in this
archive.  Lobo will likely include this patch in a future 1.7 release
(it's already in his "trunk" repository, which will become 1.8), but
this has not happened yet.  You can help speed this up by testing the
patch, since it *should* be backwards compatible with CiviCRM's other
AJAX widgets.  If it isn't, Lobo will definitely want to know, as will
I.

3) Make a good foundation for using CCK's improved Views module support.
This is not in yet, but won't take very long once
If you're comfortable patching CiviCRM (do it only on a test install!),
by all means test this.  If that sounds scary to you, wait a bit, and 
you'll see these files up on Drupal's download area shortly (less than
a week).


Thanks for looking this over.  It's currently available only for Drupal 
version 5.1, although it may be possible to get this working with 4.7
as well (assuming that CCK has the needed hooks for that version).

In addition: if there are features you want that you don't see, I'm
happy to discuss this.  I'd love to get sponsorship for this work, and
if this happens, I'll be able to put more time into improvements.

Thanks,
Rob Thorne
Torenware Networks