Custom reporting from CiviCRM with Google Sheets

Martin Hawksey@mhawksey

#CiviCon London 2015

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Context

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Problem

Comparing CiviEvent registrations for annual

events and automatically reporting on a daily basis

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Goal

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CiviReport

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Scheduled Jobs - Mail Reports (mail_report)Generates and sends a copy of the specified report instance to the email addresses configured in that instance's Report Settings.

instanceId= (required, ID of report instance to send)format=csv (optional, to output the report as a CSV file instead of default PDF format)…sendmail=0 (optional, tells the job NOT to email the report. use this in combination with print or csv format to write report to stdout so you can save it to a disk file)

Don’t hate, automate“

Google Apps Script

CC-BY Google – Google Apps Script, 13-03-2012

Where..

StandaloneSheets DocsForms Sites

What..

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Goal accomplished!!!

CiviService – CRM Library for Google Apps Script

… a CiviCRM Add-on for Google Sheets?

go.alt.ac.uk/civicon-appsmashe.hawksey.info

@mhawksey

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