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added by Coleman Oct 1 '14 at 14:13

This sort of question is good, and I think the variations on it would be most helpful: what should someone do with donor segments, foundations, students/parents/teachers, etc. – Andie Hunt Oct 9 '14 at 1:41

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added by Michael McAndrew Oct 1 '14 at 9:49

<comments removed> Please do not use comments to answer these questions. This proposal is not part of a Q&A site, and the task at hand is to help define what is on and off topic for a site. Comments are here to help improve the questions; not to answer them. See What is the rationale for deleting answers? Thank you. – Robert Cartaino Oct 1 '14 at 13:43

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added by Andie Hunt Oct 9 '14 at 1:19

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added by Luciano Spiegel Oct 1 '14 at 9:06

This is a good question because a clear answer here will help a lot of people although this may overlap with documentation – DaveM Oct 14 '14 at 16:22

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added by Coleman Oct 1 '14 at 14:08

On topic, this could lead to both a helpful answer for the questioner and a useful reference on best practice. – davejenx Oct 14 '14 at 14:58

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added by artfulrobot Oct 3 '14 at 19:34

Answers might summarise and link to documentation. – artfulrobot Oct 3 '14 at 19:42

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added by Michael McAndrew Oct 1 '14 at 10:02

I think there's lots of scope for theming questions - people could learn some good tricks here. – artfulrobot Oct 3 '14 at 19:45

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added by ErikH Oct 1 '14 at 11:54

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added by Coleman Oct 1 '14 at 15:20

hosting questions seem like a valid topic for the this board :) – Michael McAndrew Oct 1 '14 at 20:22

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added by samuelsov Oct 6 '14 at 15:38

This is a good one because its a useful audit tool ... and there is no easy way to do it (right?) – Eliot Mason Oct 12 '14 at 20:03

It can be done, but you have to follow a number of steps (a kind of recipe). So it is a good question for stackoverflow. – keikelboom Oct 13 '14 at 19:41

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added by Michael McAndrew Oct 1 '14 at 10:05

this would be a on-topic question – ErikH Oct 3 '14 at 14:01

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added by artfulrobot Oct 3 '14 at 19:33

Good answers to questions like these can potentially be pulled from SE and added to our website – Michael McAndrew Oct 6 '14 at 10:46

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added by Kurund Jalmi Oct 3 '14 at 23:41

this is a question will be very useful on this board. Social network integration, is a recurring topic for CiviCRM users – Luciano Spiegel Oct 14 '14 at 14:52

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added by bgm Oct 4 '14 at 17:36

language translations questions will be very welcome on this board – Luciano Spiegel Oct 14 '14 at 14:42

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added by Fabian Oct 7 '14 at 14:55

Drupal & CiviCRM integration questions are very important – Luciano Spiegel Oct 14 '14 at 16:11

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added by Dave Greenberg Oct 8 '14 at 18:15

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added by Dave Greenberg Oct 10 '14 at 19:03

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added by Michael McAndrew Oct 1 '14 at 9:54

This question is obviously quite generic, and if I saw it, I would asking the poster to provide a lot more information on where they saw it, what URL it was at, etc. But IMO that doesn't mean it is a bad question and I think it would be good to have meta answers and questions along these lines. – Michael McAndrew Oct 1 '14 at 9:57

This makes me think there's a need for a "DB errors FAQ" (which in turn makes me think we should improve our "hard" errors from CiviCRM). There are different error messages (the above, mysql-permissions-related, others) that aren't particularly enlightening.I'm not sure that would be a good SE-format question, but I do think there's room for improvement here. – Chris Burgess Oct 4 '14 at 20:17

" is not an integer" is my favorite. Even if this site can't answer the question itself, it could help answer the implicit question of "how can I figure out what is the real error here" – Andie Hunt Oct 9 '14 at 1:43

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added by Michael McAndrew Oct 1 '14 at 10:15

	This question is about a change that we could / should make to CiviCRM. i.e. it is not a support request, but an idea about how we could improve CiviCRM. It is based on forum.civicrm.org/index.php/…. – Michael McAndrew Oct 1 '14 at 10:18
	this might repel end users, if we cannot clearly separate developer from user questions. – Björn Endres Oct 1 '14 at 12:38
	it wasn't so much a developer question as a developer suggestion, i.e. some feedback to go into core CiviCRM. So the question is should be have developer discussion on this space. – Michael McAndrew Oct 1 '14 at 13:11
	I think we shouldn't be afraid to have developer discussion in this area. This is stack exchange after all. – Coleman Oct 1 '14 at 14:18

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added by Jaap Jansma Oct 1 '14 at 11:36

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added by David Hepper Oct 3 '14 at 11:38

Yeah, and how can we link the contribs to the memberships so they're listed in the membership records? – artfulrobot Oct 3 '14 at 19:41

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added by ErikH Oct 3 '14 at 13:57

	I want to be able to send a thank you email to a donor after he has donated to our organization. And ideally I would like to be able to distinguish between a first time donor or someone who is donating for the xth time. How would you do that? – ErikH Oct 3 '14 at 13:58
	This is an example of a functional question that goes deeper than just a simple menu option answer. An answer to this question might lead to a complete discussion, which might be moved to the CiviCM wiki. – ErikH Oct 3 '14 at 14:01

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added by ErikH Oct 3 '14 at 14:02

it is basic and very useful question for new developers approaching to CiviCRM world. – Luciano Spiegel Oct 14 '14 at 14:56

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added by artfulrobot Oct 3 '14 at 19:39

This is the sort of one where someone might give an answer, but also suggest a that a bug report could be filed, and/or link to that bug. – artfulrobot Oct 3 '14 at 19:40

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added by Graham Mitchell Oct 4 '14 at 7:59

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added by Chris Burgess Oct 4 '14 at 20:20

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added by Chris Burgess Oct 4 '14 at 20:21

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added by samuelsov Oct 6 '14 at 14:13

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added by samuelsov Oct 6 '14 at 15:44

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added by samuelsov Oct 6 '14 at 16:09

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added by samuelsov Oct 6 '14 at 16:17

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added by Martin Peth Oct 8 '14 at 15:30

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added by Donald Lobo Oct 8 '14 at 16:22

this question is valid hosting question I guess will receive a very high score. Very recurring question in CiviCRM forums – Luciano Spiegel Oct 14 '14 at 14:54

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added by Andie Hunt Oct 9 '14 at 1:35

	This seems like the kind of question that is answered with a referral to the documentation... not much to discuss – Eliot Mason Oct 12 '14 at 20:05
	The thought was that ACLs aren't always clear without the context of a use case. Maybe a slew of detailed examples in the documentation would be sufficient, but there are several ways to skin this particular cat, and seeing the options and opinions would be helpful, I think. – Andie Hunt Oct 13 '14 at 17:04
	I reckon that we will get a tonne of similar questions along these lines and the difficulty will be judging when to mark as a duplicate, and when to say, OK this is slightly different from the other use case, and deserves its own answer. Being able to chain together similar questions would probably be useful - "see also...", etc. – Michael McAndrew Oct 14 '14 at 16:32