Release Notes – 2nd May 2013

New Feature/Improvements

Better editing on the iPad.

In-browser PDF & document viewing

Query Wizard – user's photos

Acceptable Use Policy

Stuff which we fixed/made work better

Other bug fixes

Release Notes – 13th February 2013

Multiple Bible references on recordings

For all you preachers out there or who upload media content of sermons: More than one Bible reference can now be added to a single recording and chapter/verse ranges are more flexible to accommodate references spanning multiple chapters.

NB. With existing recordings, it wasn't possible to move some old references to the new system if they weren't in a standard format. If this is the case, they can't be edited and will need to be deleted and re-added.

Navigation sleight of hand – redirect menu items

You can now set up a group homepage to redirect somewhere else in the system so that when someone clicks on an item in your navigation menu, it takes them somewhere else. This means menu items can now go to other pages in the system or to other pages outside the group structure – or even the site.

For example, you might want to create a Sermons group which redirects to your Audio/Video page; have a normal Alpha or Christianity Explored course group, but also have another menu item called "Discover God" which redirects to those groups as not everyone knows what they stand for. You could create other links to the Address Book or Calendar in the main site navigation via the "System Page" option, rather than just having these links on the Home menu.

You used to be able to do this, but it required fiddling around with source code, which not everyone's happy with. So, the forward is now easily set in the Advanced Options of the Group at the top near the security settings.

Scheduling mailings – more precision

You can now schedule mailings to be sent more precisely: It's been possible to choose a date in the future when a mailing is sent for a while now, but you can now specify the time as well.

Scheduled mailings can be set up when you have 100 or more recipients – they're ideal if you're wanting to create a mailing to go out while you're away on holiday or get a series of mailings set up in one go to send to send at regular intervals.

Other new stuff

Membership List – sort User List
The User List Component lists all the people in a Group (or a family) when inserted in a Layout (the Component is found under the User Details section) – ideal for showing all the people who are in your small group or team. You can now control the order of these better – by first name, last name, country or state.

Techy/Designer things

Doctype upgrade
Internet Explorer does some weird stuff. E.g. things that look good in other browsers don't in our (not) beloved IE. This is often due to the 'doctype' setting.

The doctype can now be set on a per-layout basis. This should allow you to to design pages for IE in 'standards mode' and get round some of the problems you may have encountered before. Keep us in touch with how you're using this.

Multiple navigation components on the same layout
For technical reasons, until this release it was only possible to have one Group Navigation component in a Layout. However, you can now have multiple Group Nav components in the same Layout, allowing more flexiblity when creating or amending your site design. This gives designers greater control over styling the navigation using custom css.

One of the designers who requested this comments,
 

"It means I can now dynamically build a main navigation menu, group navigation and footer links from the group navigation component and output them as an unordered list – and display the menu on the same page (whereas I was limited to only one of these per page previously).

"Outputting as an unordered list means they are easier to style (through custom css) and are more lightweight in terms of the HTML they output."

Other new stuff

Warn when auto-changing members' privacy settings
When trying to save a user record with privacy settings that don't make sense/are contradictory (e.g. Connections can see less than site members) we now automatically reset these to something more sensible and alert the user to what's been done.

Highlight credit/debit card revalidation text in the checkout
When a paying for something with an existing card and this needs revalidating, we've made this alert/information much clearer for the user so they don't miss it and get stuck.

Update system with new Endis address
The Cambridge end of Endis operations moved home recently, so we updated the Terms & Conditions page and the Endis Insight profile with the new Musgrave Farm, Cambridge address. The team are now based in a former cowshed. All comments should be directed to them... ;)

Other things we fixed

Release Notes – 11th December 2012

Multi-group queries

First up is a really great one if you use queries. Until now, you've only been able to run a query on one group at a time. Well, no longer – now you can run a query on more than one group at once.

This is the default behaviour now when you select "Create New Query" – the old step where you selected which group to run the query on now lets you select multiple groups.

You can still run old-style, single-group queries by clicking on the Query tab then selecting the desired single group in the site tree before selecting "Create New Query"

So, what's the difference? Well, multi-group queries have some limitations over their single-group counterparts: You can't see or query group-specific notes or fields which are specific to group membership (such as group membership status and start date).

Want to query data in Group Notes? Use the single group method above.

NB You may have missed it but you have the ability to run a single-group query plus another one and then compare the data in the two found sets in different ways.

Basically, you save one set of results and then run another query and use the Task shown after you've run the query under Save & Compare: "Compare these results with another found set." This gives you a number of options. See this help video for further information about this:

And that's not all...we've also tidied up a little of the user interface to remove or reposition some confusing buttons – nothing to worry about, it will just make ife easier for you.

New fields in Query

Other items

Firefox 17
The recent release of Firefox version 17 created a couple of glitches when selecting dates & times in certain situations – these are all fixed and we've taken the opportunity to slightly update the interface too.

Media Search
As well as the usual book and Bible reference drop down menu/search box, you can now also search for preacher and Bible refence in the main search box.

Add Bible reference to media feeds to iTunes etc (optional)

Media API feed settings for podcast services now have a checkbox which allows you to automatically append the Bible reference to the item title. So, a recording with the title "More than conquerors" and Bible reference "Romans 8:31-39" would be displayed in iTunes with a title of "More than conquerors (Romans 8:31-39)".  Note this setting is optional and only appears for churches and ministries.

Configure maximum number of events displayed in calendar
Useful if you have a lods of events in your calendar: In the main calendar viewed by website visitors and members, if a day contained more than 5 events, no events were shown and instead a link was displayed saying "x events".

Two improvements have been made: You can configure the maximum. You can find the setting on Settings > Site Configuration. We've also moved the Calendar start day setting from Settings > Technical to this new location so that all the calendar settings are in the same page. We now always show up to the maximum number of events. If there are more events than the maximum, we display a link saying "y more"

User picker now has "Include all site users" – search across all Groups.
Maybe you use several Independent groups but sometimes want to search for a user and don't know which group they're in. Searching each group one-by-one can be a pain, so this new option enables you to search across all the Root and Independent Groups in one go.

User/Organisation importer
We've improved the way that users, family data and organisations are imported – for more information, help and sample files, click on the relevant Import task on the Members tab of the Root Group, Independent Group or Organisation Directory.
 

Other stuff we fixed

• A problem with the Rota CSV output has been fixed.
• 'Sorry the above login name is already in use' - the warning wasn't cleared after the user had selected a new login name so they ended up trying ad infinitum.
• The User edit window was not wide enough when launched in certain contexts, the user record screen was slightly too narrow, so text overflowed the right margin of the white area into the blue background.
• All day events were dropping off the calendar at the start of the day instead of the end.
• Non-HTML shop order emails had order lines merged into a single line - this was fixed in the last release. Test emails, however, were still sending wrongly formatted data.
• PDF filenames containing non-alphanumeric characters were causing errors either at upload time, or later when trying to download them. We've fixed this so that non alphanumeric characters are stripped out on upload.
• [regionalise:rota] was appearing in some rota reminder emails.
• Sometimes some data was lost when a manual user merge was used.
• On URL Redirection page, when  you picked a new alias there was a  misleading alert which said "Site settings will take effect immediately". This has been removed.
• On the Event Edit pop-up there was a misleading "Are you sure you want to move away from this page" pop-up when making the event recurring.
• When making a booking request from the Bookings tab in Site Manager, the resource browser defaulted to today's date, rather than the date of the booking. We also did some colouring/formatting fixes to this area.
• Some fixes on the Audio/Video search page: The link from the speaker's name contained unencoded spaces which weren't handled by all browsers. Also some people had noticed that subsequent searches left the previous search terms in the URL. Both of these have been fixed.
• Unnecessary clicks when moving articles and group. When selecting the task to move an article to a new group, or move a group, a further button was revealed "Choose location" which you then had to click to pick the destination. Life's too short for this: The group picker is now opened straight away on the first click and the redundant button is gone.
• If you happened to use the word "body" in an advert, it would get translated into a piece of code.
• The menu structure in the Settings area now selects the first item under the parent heading by default when you select the parent. For example, if you click "Billing" the sub-options open as before, but you are also taken straight to the "Payment Details" page (the first sub-option).
• Some pages missed getting the groovy rounded corners of the recent Weboffice redesign have now got them.
• Payment group completion text and emails - when the template was changed, all the editors just went blank. To fix this, we had to separate the completion text and emails into separate tabs. So we did.

Issues

Release Notes – 31st October 2012

Improvements to rotas

Reminder emails 

Create new rota using existing rota as a template

This functions much like the feature for copying documents.

Previously, it was possible to extend an existing rota by adding new Events and copying existing rows of volunteers to the new Events, then deleting the out of date row, but this offers an alternative and much more efficient approach.

There's a new task on the Properties tab of the Rota should a user want to duplicate it, called, "Copy the <rota name> rota" which enables the user to create a new rota using an existing one as a template – saving loads of time in either creating Tasks, assigning those to people, or both.

That copies the rota exactly (apart from adding "copy of" to the rota name) into the Editing section of the Rotas tab. All of the existing Events/dates, Tasks and People are copied as they are.

Rota editor

• 'Change event' - a new button on each row which allows you to move the whole row to a new event.
• Show/Hide past events - past events are hidden by default (unless there are no future events, in which case past events are shown). There are buttons to control showing/hiding
• Delete past events - new button.
• Sort quick list by surname. Previously the list of users that appeared when you click in a cell was in an apparently random order. This is now sorted by surname.
• In the event picker you can now add new events. Previously when adding events to a rota, if you found that the event didn't exist, you had to back out of the rota, go to the events tab and create the event. Now you can do it in situ.
• Fixed Chrome compatibility issues (when scrolling, cells would get out of line).

301 Redirects for Aliases

Improvement to 'Add other guests'

• Defaulting to blank, so no number is visible unless you explicitly decide to add some.
• Selected number is automatically added without needing to subsequently click the 'Add' button.
• There's now a "More..." entry at the bottom of the list which, when selected, replaces the dropdown with a textbox in which you can type any number you like (up to a maximum of 99).
• You can now delete 'blank' guests that you might have added by accident, without first having to type something in the name boxes.

Bug fixes

• Prevent duplicate names when downloading digital files from the shop. When combining files from multiple sources which have the same name (e.g. you're downloading the score, guitar chords and MP3 for a worship song) these could all end up with the same name in the download tool so that they overwrite each other when you download them. We now append (2), (3) etc to any duplicates.
• Option for email not to be sent for ''Deny access to the website, but retain contact info" task. It's now possible to deny an application without sending the user an email. Previously you could only do this by temporarily removing their email address.
• Cookie component uses jquery and breaks custom code that also uses jquery. The cookie component now checks whether jquery has already been defined on the page before trying to load it itself. If custom code which uses jquery occurs on the page AFTER the cookie component then the custom code itself will need to check itself whether it should load jquery.
• Order Lines ends up as a single line in html emails. Fixed
• Unsaved changes warning when saving the organisation profile page. Fixed.
• Admin notification - 'Configure notifications' list drops off the page when there are many entries. Fixed.
• Document editor bug fixes:
  • When adding a thumbnail image with a clickable link to the large image the link to the image is placed in the Alt text field under Image info rather than the URL field under the Link info. Fixed.
  • When adding a 'join a group' hyperlink, the hyperlink wasn't generated in the correct format. Fixed.
  • The 'black right-pointing pointer' - one of the special characters in the document editor would become a question mark when the document was saved. Fixed
• Group summary tab statistics were only visible to users with permission to 'Edit member details'. These statistics can now be seen by users with Membership Manager permissions as these people can already have this information implicitly.
• Blue screen when 3D Secure Authentication fails. An error message should be displayed on the screen explaining why authentication had failed. Instead, users were getting the usual Insight error screen and were unable to complete their purchase. Fixed.
• Use 'nicknames' consistently across the site. We've tightened this up, so that real names are more consistently replaced with nicknames. The exception to this is that full names can still be displayed in user list components that use mini-layouts.
• Error when cloning payment groups. We've fixed what we think is the source of this bug.
• User list component not displaying to non-logged-in users. Fixed
• Alert box pops up under group picker when moving article to a different group. People don't see the alert and think it's a bug that the group picker hasn't closed. They close the group picker. When they subsequently dismiss the alert that they now see, the browser crashes. This is fixed by ensuring that group picker closes independently of the alert being dismissed.
• Selecting document from QuickFind doesn't change tree focus i.e. it doesn't take users to where the document is in the site tree as it used to. While fixing this, we've made some usability improvements to the QuickFind so that it takes the user directly to the selected article, rather than just showing the documents list where the document is – or even, in some cases, just the group summary tab. Fixed.
• Odd characters in region dropdown on Technical settings page. Fixed.
• Query last run date is GMT instead of site time. Fixed.
   

Release Notes - 11th June 2012

We've added some features to help with the EU law on cookies and we've fixed some bugs. As always, if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us.

EU Cookie Law

We've added some new features which will help you meet the requirements of the EU cookie law which has just come into force.

The law is very much open to interpretation so you'll need to draw your own conclusions about how you apply it. You can read the detailed guidelines here. The good news is that Insight itself only uses cookies that are essential to the operation of your site, and therefore are exempt from the requirement to obtain consent. However, many of you will have added Google Analytics or other third party code to your site which does use cookies.

We've added two new features to help you comply:

More Document File Types Allowed

We've extended the list of file types which you can upload to your sites to additionally include all Office 2007/2010 file types - .xlsx, .xltx, .dotx, .pptx, .ppsx and .potx.

Dropdown Menus Now Working on iPads and iPhones

Lots of you have asked about this - we've been fiddling for a while to try and make it work, and we think we've got it now! Enjoy.

Order Lines for Digital Items can now be Cancelled

This had previously been prevented on the assumption that if a digital item had been bought then it would have been downloaded. However, there are legitimate cases where you might want to cancel an order for a digital item - for example, a duplicate order, or the customer genuinely ordered the wrong item (or thought they were getting a physical item).

Shop admins can now cancel digital order lines - but of course you should be aware that the item may already have been downloaded.

Another bit of Chrome Support...

Selecting columns in the Query wizard can now be done in the Google Chrome browser. We've been slowly chipping away at features that don't work in Chrome and other browsers - the developers here use Chrome themselves, so we know how frustrating the broken bits are!

We know, too, that what you want most of all is to have the document editor working in Chrome and Safari... this is on its way. If you didn't see our blog post about this, you can read it here.

Bug fixes

• Deleting groups that contained large numbers of events took an unbearably long time. We've sped this up.
• Adding a user to a group from the user picker (for example when adding a staff member to an organisation) didn't work. This is fixed now.
• In the Mailing Wizard, when mailing to members of a payment group or staff members, any filters applied from the drop down menus weren't applied. This has been fixed.
• PDF exports from query results didn't work where note field names contained ampersands. They do now.
• If you entered a description longer than 255 characters for a sign up sheet, this caused an error when this sign up sheet is displayed in a rota module. This is fixed.
• You'd get an error if you tried to send a mailing to all of the participants on a rota or sign-up sheet. We've fixed it.
• Registration notes for registrations made through single page payment groups were not appearing on the registration or in queries. This is now fixed.
• "Cost price" was appearing among the options for users to sort shop sections. Choosing it, however, would cause an error. This item has been removed from the drop down. Customers can still legitimately sort a section by retail price.
• On the user record, if the login name was edited to a login that already existed, the error message to explain this was never displayed. This has been fixed.
• Attempting to add a comment to a forum thread when not logged in would result in an error. No more.
• A rather obscure one... on the user record, under Involvement, if a user is involved in an independent group - other than the root group - then you couldn't save their root group membership. Fixed now!
• Under "My Connections" the "Add a Connection" feature is a button instead of a link - to make it more obvious!