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Thanks for your patience, all Tendenci sites are back online. Our server facility, Sungard, was experiencing data transport issues and worked quickly to resolve them.
The situation is still being monitored, but all Tendenci sites are be back online.
Again, we really appreciate your patience and are here for you if you have any questions.
Call us at 281-497-6567 or email support at schipul dot com.
Thank you!
As of 10:30 am CST all Tendenci sites are currently down due to a data transport issue at our colo facility, Sungard. The facility’s engineers are looking into the outage right now.
We will keep you updated and expect the issue to be resolved very quickly.
Give us a call at 281-497-6567 if you have any questions at all. We appreciate your patience and as always, your business.
More info to come soon!
We just wanted to remind you about our great Tendenci Photos Module, a powerful new feature on Tendenci. We’ve seen a lot of clients get really creative with their photos and we think it’s a great way for organizations to tell their story.
Photos are often the biggest traffic drivers for a site and give you more places to put keyword rich content, which is great for Search Engines. For inspiration, be sure to check out these organizations that are doing awesome things with their Photo Albums:
If you are a current Tendenci client you have access to the Web Site Photos Module on your site right now! Why not maximize the traffic to your site and have some fun while you do it?
Visit our helpfiles to learn how to get started with Photo Albums for your organization!
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
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
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).
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!
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.
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.
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:
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!
