Tendenci Updates December 29th, 2011

We added new features to Tendenci for you to enjoy in the New Year.   Check out this week’s Tendenci updates:

Global Settings and Content Management

  • Custom Forms now have editable URL slugs
  • Custom Forms no longer require intro and response text
  • Updated how templates use Nav tags to avoid naming conflicts
  • The category template tag now skips objects that don’t have a category or subcategory
  • Reconfigured index servers to dramatically decrease the time for page saves and edits

Membership Module Updates

  • Removed the “admin only” option for membership type and payment method field on membership applications
  • Membership entries can now be deleted by administrators
  • Subscribers can now be batch imported into a User Group using a spreadsheet template

Career Module Updates

  • The Jobs Search page offers additional ways to customize your job search queries
  • Added Agency Information on the Job details page

Events Module

  • You can now filter by event types when an adding content to a new email newsletter campaign

Questions about these updates? Hit us up in the comments or over on Get Satisfaction and help us name our newest self sign-up version of the Tendenci Software by voting for your top 3 favorites: https://www.tendenci.com/vote-to-name-the-new-templateversion-of-tendenci/!

Your 2011 Favorite Website and Web Marketing Schipul Blog Posts

Your 2011 Schipul Posts with the Most Love

At Schipul, we love to spend our time researching what’s new and innovative and the “next big thing” in web technology and online marketing.  We are super-pumped to uncover all the awesomely geeky web-tech coming in 2012 – and wanted to take a moment and reflect on what You thought was the best and most interesting news in web marketing in 2011 before we ring in the New Year – from our mobile phones, of course!

Our SEM team pulled up our analytics reports and took a look at what You were reading and sharing in 2011.  Here are the most popular blog posts visited on the Schipul blog and the most shared posts on Facebook  in case you missed one.

Posts with the Most Reads on the Schipul Blog in 2011:

Posts with the Most Shares on Facebook in 2011:

  1. Google+ Video Overview
  2. Google+ versus Facebook for Video Calls
  3. Google+ Business Pages Are Here

There’s Even More to Love Ahead in 2012!

Add Schipul to one of your Google+ Circles  to tell us what types of blog posts you’d +1 in 2012.

Follow Schipul – The Web Marketing Company on LinkedIn and see what we are up all year.

Find out Your Top 10 Favorite Pages on Our Website and Our Top 10 Favorites from 2011.

Keep current with the constantly changing web environment with our new, weekly feature page The Newest, Coolest, Next Big Thing on the Web  where we’ll pick what we believe is going to be a Web Game Changer in 2012.

All Sites Back Up >> 8:30am CST Tendenci Site Server Outage 12/22/11

12/22/2011 9:23 AM – All Tendenci Sites are Live. 

The Database Server is back up and all Tendenci sites are live. The outage lasted approximately one hour. Thank you for your patience, if you have any questions call us at (281) 497.6567 .

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Some Tendenci Web sites are currently down due to an outage of one of our database servers this morning (December 22) starting around 8:30am CST.  We are working to resolve the issues.

Thank you for your patience, we will post updates to the Tendenci blog and Tendenci Twitter as we have them.

In the meantime, feel free to call us at (281) 497.6567 with any questions.  If you are on Twitter, you can follow us for immediate updates here:  www.twitter.com/tendenci.

Tendenci Updates for December 20th

Using your Tendenci website just got a little bit easier. Check out these updates we made over the weekend:

Global Settings and Content Management

  • Navigation files now support navigation template tags.
  • Added css, less, and js to static media directory (globally used)
  • Created a Details page for a single setting
  • Made custom form export more user-friendly – changed True/False to “yes’s and no’s”

Membership Module Updates

  • Design refresh to the Membership entries search page
  • Added the following fields to the membership export file: user name, member number, join date-time, renew date-time

Career Module Updates

  • The Jobs Search page now displays jobs in order by status: premium active, active, premium inactive, inactive
  • Contributions list raised to 50 records from 10.
  • Contributions now display newest contributions first.

Photo Albums

  • Photo detail page id attribute added to “photo-rights” div to help designers control elements.

Questions about these updates? Hit us up in the comments or over on Get Satisfaction and help us name our newest self sign-up version of the Tendenci Software by voting for your top 3 favorites: https://www.tendenci.com/vote-to-name-the-new-templateversion-of-tendenci/!

Heads Up – Some Tendenci Sites Are Having Content Display Issues

UPDATE: All Tendenci Sites are Back to Normal – Content is Displaying Correctly

As of 12:45 PM Central, Tendenci sites are displaying all current content once again. If you have any questions, please contact our Support team at support@tendenci.com or call 281-497-6567 ext 411.

Don’t Worry – Your Site Will Return to Normal Before Lunchtime

Newer Tendenci websites are hosted with Amazon Web Services and last night, Amazon updated their servers.  As a result, our index servers did not successfully come back online last night.

What This Means to You

Your website may not show current information and in some cases, you may not see recently added content when you log on to your website this morning.

No Data is Missing

Your data is safe and sound in the database, it may not be displaying correctly on your website.

We are restarting the production index servers and your website is re-indexing as I write this.

Our estimated timeline for all Tendenci websites to be back to normal is approximately 2 hours.

If you have any questions or concerns about something – please contact our Support team at support@tendenci.com or call 281-497-6567 ext 411.

Icons on the Admin Bar

We’ve updated the admin bar again.

We’re making use of icons.  We hope this makes it easier to spot that pesky item you’re looking for.

We’ve also completely done away with the settings link as a top level item.

Now you can find all settings per application right next to the application itself.  You can thank our very own

Alex Ragsdale for the suggestion.

Tendenci Admin Bar with Icons
Tendenci Admin Bar with Icons

We have a top-level link called people where you can find users, members, admins, corporate members, and groups.

For global settings please visit the quick links.

We hope these icons are not too cryptic, let us know what you think.  I’ll just patiently wait here while you write your thoughts.

PlasmaCar Races 2011!!

Thanksgiving is best celebrated by pushing co-workers and family members down a steep garage incline, don’t you think?   Well, we do…

This year’s annual PlasmaCar Races were thrilling adventures in gravity-land, fully of (joyful) screaming, competitiveness and camaraderie – all on the backs of small children’s toy vehicles.   Take a peek at more PlasmaCar Racing photos on our Facebook fanpage here.

It’s a tradition best explained by being there, I suppose.   But this video might shed some light on our love of sharing a holiday with family and co-workers on the seat of a speeding scooter.   We hope your Thanksgiving was an exciting one, too!!

PlasmaCar Race Day from Schipul – The Web Marketing Co. on Vimeo.