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	<title>RE-Decoded &#187; Beginner</title>
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	<description>A technical look at the Raiser&#039;s Edge API from Blackbaud</description>
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		<title>Off Topic &#8211; Praise for Evohosting</title>
		<link>http://www.re-decoded.com/2010/03/off-topic-praise-for-evohosting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Zeidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is completely off topic but I want to shower my web hosting provider with praise. Why now? Well no particular reason other than I have been thinking about doing it for a while. When I lived in the States I had my website on one of the big providers. It was OK but when [...]


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		<title>How many unique IDs should a Raiser&#8217;s Edge Consituent have?</title>
		<link>http://www.re-decoded.com/2010/02/how-many-unique-ids-should-a-raisers-edge-consituent-have/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Zeidman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally when we look up at a Raiser&#8217;s Edge constituent we use a variety of identifiers to find the specific record we are looking for. It may be that we are using biographical data such as surname, first name and parts of their address. To find a one unique record we need to search by [...]


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		<title>A First Customisation For Blackbaud Enterprise CRM (BBEC) on the Infinity Platform</title>
		<link>http://www.re-decoded.com/2009/04/a-first-customisation-for-blackbaud-enterprise-crm-bbec-on-the-infinity-platform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.re-decoded.com/2009/04/a-first-customisation-for-blackbaud-enterprise-crm-bbec-on-the-infinity-platform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Zeidman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BBEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blackbaud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Event]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Raiser's Edge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Zeidman Development are proud to release the first customisation for Blackbaud Enterprise CRM on the Infinity Platform. Google Calendar Integration for BBEC allows users to save events and have them published to their Google calendar. This first release is relatively simple as it only allows for new events to be published. The source code for [...]


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		<title>Filling a .NET dropdown with static code table entries</title>
		<link>http://www.re-decoded.com/2009/03/filling-a-net-dropdown-with-static-code-table-entries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.re-decoded.com/2009/03/filling-a-net-dropdown-with-static-code-table-entries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Zeidman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gift]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.re-decoded.com/?p=96</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post (Filling a .NET dropdown with code table entries) I described how it was possible to fill a .NET dropdown with dynamic code table entries such as title or address types, etc. When I tried to do the same thing with static table entries (e.g. gift types, payment types, etc) it proved [...]


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		<title>Opening a link from a Constituent</title>
		<link>http://www.re-decoded.com/2009/02/opening-a-link-from-a-constituent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.re-decoded.com/2009/02/opening-a-link-from-a-constituent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Zeidman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beginner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[API]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constituent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a question recently on Blackbus asking how to open a link from a constituent record. For example if you had an external system that uses constituent ids to find individuals it would be very useful to be able to open a web page from the constituent window by pressing the macro button and [...]


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		<title>Plug-in order</title>
		<link>http://www.re-decoded.com/2009/02/plug-in-order/</link>
		<comments>http://www.re-decoded.com/2009/02/plug-in-order/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Zeidman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blackbaud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This question has been eating away at me for ages. When you go to the Plug-ins module in The Raiser&#8217;s Edge and see the various plug-ins installed I often wonder is there any kind of order to them. Some of them appear to be in alphabetical order but then one will sneak up on you [...]


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		<title>IDLookup &#8211; A new version</title>
		<link>http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/12/idlookup-a-new-version/</link>
		<comments>http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/12/idlookup-a-new-version/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Zeidman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beginner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to announce the release of IDLookup version 1.1.5. This is just an incremental upgrade with the small additions of support for searching by title and by gender.
As always if you already own a copy of IDLookup then follow this link to download the new version. Use the same serial number if prompted.
If [...]


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		<title>IBBMacroProperties &#8211; A very useful interface if it worked</title>
		<link>http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/11/ibbmacroproperties-a-very-useful-interface-if-it-worked/</link>
		<comments>http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/11/ibbmacroproperties-a-very-useful-interface-if-it-worked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Zeidman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beginner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constituent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raiser's Edge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IBBMacroProperties interface promised some nice enhancements to VBA macros. However of the three properties in the interface only one of them actually works.
When you write a VBA macro you can use a parameter signature that Raiser&#8217;s Edge picks up on and then places the macro in dropdown on each record. The parameter signature must [...]


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		<title>Lookup by constituent system id &#8211; a new free plugin</title>
		<link>http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/10/lookup-by-constituent-system-id-a-new-free-plugin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/10/lookup-by-constituent-system-id-a-new-free-plugin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Zeidman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beginner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constituent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Export]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HTML]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDLookup]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a post on Blackbus recently where a Raiser&#8217;s Edge user was having trouble mapping the output of a third party system to RE. The other system had the constituent system id and did not have the import id or the constituent ids so importing the data directly into RE was proving to be [...]


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		<title>Removing from a collection</title>
		<link>http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/08/removing-from-a-collection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/08/removing-from-a-collection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Zeidman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beginner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constituent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One issue I had when I first started was how do I remove a child object from a collection. For example if I want to remove one constituent code from a constituent I need to loop through them, find the one I want to remove and remove it. My fear though was that if I [...]


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