Comments for RE-Decoded

Comment on Raiser’s Edge, PCI Compliance and the Dreaded, Buggy Lock Screen by Kraeg

Kraeg — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:44:44 +0000

I’m a developer, but I don’t have processes attached to RE7.exe… my applications log in to RE (RE7.exe need not be running) to perform specific tasks, and so bypass the lockouts.
What I have noticed though is that: it doesn’t always lock one out; if you have a dialogue box (such as Open Constituent) open and it locks you out then you can’t get back in at all; and that if you have more than one instance running it may lock you out of one instance but not the other.

As for “Sleep” I don’t know, but I do know RE does not handle Hibernate very elegantly (ie; do not hibernate unless you’ve saved all your work).

Comment on Raiser’s Edge, PCI Compliance and the Dreaded, Buggy Lock Screen by David Zeidman

David Zeidman — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:30:03 +0000

I was wondering if it was just me. I was also wondering if it has to do with accessing RE through the development environment. Does that affect it? I wonder if “regular” users i.e. non-developers put their machine to sleep (as opposed to turning it off) and then on waking it up and unlocking RE it crashes.

Comment on Raiser’s Edge, PCI Compliance and the Dreaded, Buggy Lock Screen by Kraeg

Kraeg — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:25:33 +0000

It’s definitely buggy. Making it optional would be a huge improvement.

Comment on I love Blackbaud. I dislike Blackbaud hosting by Glen Kendell

Glen Kendell — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:45:39 +0000

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Comment on Integrating Raiser’s Edge with non-Blackbaud Products by Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:58:06 +0000

I am new to Raiser’s Edge, and am having difficulty with the Import function. If I wanted to import completely new data from an external excel spreadsheet how do I create import id’s?
Everytime I try the error message says it needs an import id, but as this is a new file there arent any, how do I get round this?
Secondly I think I understand if you are going to use existing data then yu would create an export file which would conatin the Import ids? So when brnging the data back in it would recognise it? I have looked at the import guide but I cant be sure I understand it completely especially for the first question.

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks

Dawn

Comment on Looking up a constituent by David

David — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 22:21:11 +0000

There is an example here: http://www.re-decoded.com/2009/12/custom-where-clause-with-relationships/

This looks up an individual relationship but the principle is the same as for constituents.

David

Comment on Looking up a constituent by Olivier Tisserand

Olivier Tisserand — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:31:54 +0000

Hi,

Could you please give a sample of the sCustomWhereClause string format ?

I am stucked since half a day on finding constituent record from the last name… It is silly.

I am totally newbee to RE7, sorry.

Thanks for your help,

Olivier

Comment on Download The Raiser’s Edge for Free… by Kunal

Kunal — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 03:53:39 +0000

I stumbled upon this while looking for free RE download as the article mentions!. Even though I knew its not available I was trying out my luck. I know RE very well, have years of experience working on RE and fundraising sector and many people ask me about training them on RE. But since I currently dont have RE subscription(and its expensive due to its monopoly)I cant train them. I wish I could magically download it from somewhere!

Comment on The Case of the Missing Tabs by Mike

Mike — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:38:36 +0000

As a follow-on to my previous comment, if the user did select a duplicate, how do you determine which duplicate the user selected?

Comment on The Case of the Missing Tabs by Mike

Mike — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:37:00 +0000

If you display the constituent form with a new record (i.e. init, don’t load, then set some fields), how can you detect whether the user selected a duplicate record upon saving? Whenever I try it via the API, RE saves the constituent as a new record whether the user selected a duplicate or not.