About this book

Understanding CiviCRM - A Comprehensive Guide is written for CiviCRM version 3.3. The majority of the content is applicable for both older and current versions of CiviCRM.

Cover Art (faces) by Kapor Creative: Jake Mix & Trevor Parham (Jake created the illustrations, and Trevor developed the concept of the civi logos as eyes). Cover Art is CC-BY-SA

Content and structure

This book aims to be a comprehensive guide to using CiviCRM for a wide range of audiences. It covers core CiviCRM functionality and CiviCRM's components. Both the book, and the component-specific sections of the book, have the following structure:

• Introduction - suitable for all readers
  
• Planning - should be read before configuring and using functionality
  
• Configuration - covers how to set up functionality for everyday use
  
• Everyday tasks - instructions on how to carry out every day tasks with CiviCRM

Contributing

Like all other aspects of CiviCRM, this book is a collaborative and community-led project which you can contribute to and participate in. Instructions on how to contribute are at the end of this book.