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Schipul Internal Email is Up and Running!

With a few exceptions, the Schipul email is up and running again (thanks to our awesome IT people!). Unfortunately we had to restore our email exchange server so any mail sent or received by a Schipul.com email address between Tuesday morning, May 6, and Friday morning, May 9, is lost. This means if you sent anything to a Schipul employee, they may not have received it and you will need to resend it.

We are working hard to make sure that we don’t miss any correspondence from you but some of us our still having email issues. Please feel free to call us at 281.497.6567 if you need anything at all!

Thank you!

Maggie

Schipul internal email access is limited

We have been experiencing difficulties with our exchange server since around 6:00 PM yesterday.  Unfortunately mail sent after that time is possibly lost.  Mail sent after 4:00 AM this morning is in the process of being recovered. 

This only affects email sent to a schipul.com email address.  All client mail is still up and running smoothly.

We appreciate your cooperation and patience!  Please call the office for assistance, 281.497.6567.

Thanks,
Jennifer

Tendenci and helpful tools

There is a new section on the Tendenci home page called "Tendenci & Other Tools" where you can find some novice to advanced tools that may help you while using the software. Some of these tools include a style sheet editor for your site and picnik (an online image editing tool).

Jobs Board search will be getting updated

Searching for jobs on your Tendenci jobs board is about to get easier.  Soon, we will be updating the current jobs search to use a new 1-line search much like our Tendenci Help Files.  Instead of choosing what specific field you want to search (which can be tedious and unhelpful), the new 1-line search will look for your text in all of the relevant jobs fields.

We have even updated the look of jobs in the search by removing some of the clutter to make it easier to find what you're looking for.

Here is a sneak peek at the new look:

But I need to be able to search by Location!

Don't worry, with our Advanced Search option, you can search by Company, Location, Category, or specify jobs that do not require travel.  You can do an Advanced Search by clicking the text link just underneath the search bar.  Remember, your Advanced Search will also include your search text (if you type anything in) and use the advanced fields to narrow down your results.

The new jobs search should be launching next week!

View all Comments made on my Photo Album

Did you know you could easily see all the comments made to a photo album?

Whenever you’re viewing a photo album, you will always see the number of comments associated with that album. If the album has at least one comment you can click on the link and view a full list of all the comments made for this one album.

Small Photo Updates

Some small photo updates we think you’ll enjoy. First and foremost we’ve taken care to bake in some more SEO goodness on your photos. Making sure that all of your photos and related links have relevant alt and or title attributes on their tags. So make sure to title those photos appropriately.

An RSS link has also been made readily available on the albums page so that others can easily subscribe to your feed.

Pagination has received a bit of a face lift as well, giving off a crisp display of where you’re at and where you’re going – making it that much easier to navigate.

 

New Membership Reconcile Page for Admin

As a site administrator, sometimes you need to look at some data and run the membership reports. The membership reconcile page gives you a centralized place to quickly access to your membership data.

It lists the total members and users with links to a list of active members, pending members and expired members.

Besides the totals, It contains the links to  1) memberships reports, 2) members data, 3) exports.

For more information, please visit the help file What Can I Expect from the Membership Reconcile Page?,

Short interruptions in accessing development sites today 4/14/08 between 5:30 PM and 6:00 PM CST

Due to electrical maintenance in our offices, there may be short interruptions in accessing your development sites that are hosted in our office today, 4/14/08, between 5:30 PM and 6:00 PM CST.

This will only affect sites with a http://yourdomain.schipul.net URL.

For additional questions, contact support@schipul.com or 281-497-6567 ext. 411.

A New Membership Add-on - Special Interest Groups

The special interest groups (SIGs) are user groups that requires payments. The module has been released recently. If you're using membership module, you can integrate it into your membership application and give members the options to join the special interest groups when they are applying memberships. It allows you to have the separate membership payment for regular membership and for special interest groups in one payment transaction.

Integrating SIG to membership is easy; it takes two steps: 1) Add special interest groups in the SIG module. 2) Add the SIG section to your membership application. For detailed information, visit the help file Special Interest Group with Membership.

The Newsletter Generator gets a makeover!

Sending E-newsletters has always been a popular feature of Tendenci, but with all that functionality also comes a bit of confusion. There are a lot of options to choose from when you create a newsletter and it can be a bit daunting, even for an experienced Tendenci Pro. Our goal with the new look is to streamline your ability to generate a newsletter quickly and efficiently while maintaining all of the power you now enjoy.

The fields on the Newsletter Generator have now been grouped into 3 areas:

1. The "Send To" controls for who will receive your newsletter
2. The "Subject" area with options to personalize it for the recipient
3. and the "Module Content" area, for when you want your Newsletter to include content automatically from your Calendar, Articles, Jobs Board, or other Tendenci modules

We have also added a link for those times when you don't want to include content from other Modules. Before, un-selecting the default options was bit tedious, but now you can click the Do not include Module Content link to set all content to "Skip" and close the section. Don't worry; you can re-open it if you change your mind!

No fields have been Added or Removed so everything you're used to using should be roughly where it was before.

Let us know what you think of the new look!