http://www.re-decoded.com A technical look at the Raiser's Edge API from Blackbaud Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:21:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A while ago I wrote an article about filtering on gifts. I find myself regularly having to reference the knowledgebase link which itself links to an Access database file. Here is a snippet from that other article. A word on the GiftTypes filter. Here you can filter on cash, pay-cash, pledge, ... http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/07/76/ In export for a recurring gift it is not possible to pull out the bank details specific to that gift. You can only pull the name of the bank or all the banks on the constituent's record. It is not possible to pull the account number and sort code. This ... http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/07/vba-user-fields-in-export/ Following my previous article on creating a batch with a notepad I am following it up with a some code that adds attributes. This is more or less shown on the Blackbus thread that I referenced but I wanted to clarify some of the steps having gone through the procedure ... http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/07/creating-attributes-with-the-batchapi/ I have started to use the Batch API in earnest now. I have said previously that it is a great long overdue piece of functionality but I am beginning to understand why it was never included earlier. As with much of the API the newly added Batch API is not ... http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/06/using-the-batch-api-with-notepads-or-attributes/ Zeidman Development is pleased to announce the latest release of IDLookup. With this latest release (version 1.1.4) we bring you some exciting additions: Use your search criteria against a spouse record. Previously we introduced address equivalents (a match against “1 High Street” would also match “1 High St”, or “1 High ... http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/06/latest-version-of-idlookup/ I wanted to be able to get a constituent's address from their record. Sounds simple enough. You just take the address block, the city, the state and zip. Although what happens if they are not in the States or Canada. When you change the country for example, to United Kingdom, the state field disappears ... http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/06/the-full-address/ There are a lot of controls that The Raiser's Edge uses and that you can use in your code to give it a similar look and feel. This article is an introduction to using one of these controls - the SuperEdit70Ex. Like most of the API this is not documented. ... http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/05/using-the-re-controls-part-1/ Previously I have integrated Quick Address from QAS with The Raiser's Edge. I implemented their pro API in order to validate the address on saving the constituent/relationship/participant and on demand using the VBA macro button. I created a plugin to update addresses en masse using their batch API. I implemented their pro ... http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/04/validating-a-constituent-batch/ When you write code using the RE7VBA tool that compiles the VBA code into a DLL to be deployed, the environment is very similar to the built in VBA environment. There is the same development environment and access to the same code. So you would think that switching between the ... http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/04/re7vba-tool-not-working-as-expected/ Inspired by a posting on Wired (which in turn was taken from a Wiki on obsolete technologies) I wanted to give you a list of the top five obsolete areas of the RE:API. http://www.re-decoded.com/2008/03/the-obsolete-api/