Presentation given at LONDON CIVICON 2013. Includes description of a free Joomla plugin that syncs new Joomla / Community Builder users that register on site to CiviCRM contacts. Also includes description of new CB Auto Actions type that syncs CB fields back to core CiviCRM contact fields.

1. Joomla 2 CiviCRM plugin and
CB Auto Actions CiviCRM integration
@ CIVICON London 2013

2. Hello ….
This is my first CiviCRM event
Are we having fun yet ?
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3. My profile:
Nick A. My CiviCRM Interest
 Greek Political party site
 Joomla 2.5 & CiviCRM 4.3
 Multi-linual challenges
 Better JC integration
 Learning and contributing
 ‘nant’ on forums
 Athens, Greece
 MS EE, MS CS
 Telecom / CIO
 “Good engineers don’t
need tools, bad ones also
have no use for them”
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4. My Contributions so far …
 Reported 5 issues that have been fixed:
11499, 12570, 12571, 12652, 12656
 Coded and released free Joomla 2 CiviCRM synchronization
plugin to sync Joomla or Community Builder registrations to
CiviCRM contacts
 Inspired and tested new CiviCRM action type feature for CB
AutoActions plugin
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5. What is Community Builder ?
 CB is a social networking solution for Joomla that:
 Adds user profiles
 With fields and tabs
 Extends registration process (with new fields)
 Lets users connect with other users
 Links to social network sites
 Adds cool apps to user profiles (blog, guestbook, gallery, etc.)
 Helps you build your own social network community on your
Joomla website
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6. COMMUNITY
BUILDER
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7. Joomla 2 CiviCRM User Sync
 A Joomla 2.5 / 3.x plugin that fires after a new Joomla/CB user
is created and does the following:
 Checks if CiviCRM contact exists (based on email given during
Joomla/CB registration)
 Links Joomla user to CiviCRM contact (if multiple users exist
configuration setting is used to get oldest, newest or create
new contact – or even skip)
 Automatically maps Joomla name to first, middle, last name
fields in CiviCRM (CB already has such fields)
 Can create new activity based on sync event performed
(configurable)
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8. More
Joomla 2 CiviCRM User Sync
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9. More
Joomla 2 CiviCRM User Sync
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10. More
Joomla 2 CiviCRM User Sync
 Where to get it from ?
 CiviCRM extensions page:
http://civicrm.org/extensions/joomla
 Joomla extensions page:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension-
specific/civicrm/24662
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Following people helped by answering questions:
Brian Shaughnessy, Xavier, Lobo

11. CB Auto Action CiviCRMType
 A Community Builder plugin (commercial offering) that lets
you perform CiviCRM actions when specific CB events take
place. Example usage:
 Create new CiviCRM contact or sync to existing contact when
new CB user is created
 Sync CB fields to CiviCRM core fields based on any CB event
(e.g., CB Profile update)
 Detach (unsync) contact from user
 Add contact to group or tag it
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12. More
CB Auto Action CiviCRMType
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13. More
CB Auto Action CiviCRMType
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