Cool new content monitoring in Tendenci

Authored_content Updates to the User View pages allow you to see the latest content each user has added to your Web site.

This enables amazing transparency within your organization and also gives you an easy way to follow all of the new content from your site contacts.

The Tendenci software is designed to help your organization connect and communicate.  Use this new content monitoring tool to keep in touch with the latest and greatest of your members’ contributions.

Let us know how else we can help you reach out to and stay in touch with your members!  (281) 497.6567.

Simplify! Updated dashboard makes your life easier

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Next week we’ll be pushing out a Tendenci update that will change the look of your Tendenci dashboard.  This simplified interface is streamlining access to your Tendenci modules (like User search and Calendar) and giving you one central link for all new content addition.

Add_button_graphic_2Click on the module links like you usually would to access them or simply click on the shiny new ‘Add Content’ button to add new content to your site.

Here’s the real beauty of the update:  You don’t have to keep it!

If you prefer the look, feel and functionality of a different dashboard design, you can revert to the old dashboard version by following these Tendenci Help File directions.

Color your calendar!

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The Tendenci calendar makes it easy for your attendees to pick and choose from your organization’s events.   Yesterday we released new Color Fields to make it even easier to differentiate from one event type to another.

The Color Fields let you change the color of your event type in the monthly and daily view of your event calendar.  Visualization is good!  Learn how to edit your Calendar Event Types in this help file here

Schipul office back online and with phones!

Proving that there is no such thing as a normal week at the Schipul offices, we lost our Internet and phone connection thanks to an overzealous Interstate construction crew part of yesterday (2/22) and today (2/23).

However, we are now back online with access to emails and our phones are working again.

All of our live Web sites were never affected by the outages – please call us at (281) 497.6567 with questions or for suggestions on how to overcome your Internet withdrawal symptoms if something like this should ever happen to you.

Thanks for your patience!

Connecting interactively to other Web site users

Connection_networking_linkConnect with Web site members you find interesting by adding them as a contact.  Your contact list lets you keep track of new content that your contacts add to the Web site and gives you easy link access to their User Profiles.

When you are viewing a member’s User profile page, you will notice a new Connection icon link next to their User name (see accompanying graphic).  Simply click on this icon and they are automatically added to your Connection list.

The newly added contact will receive an email notification so they can reciprocate the connection. To view your Connections list, click on the ‘Connections’ link at the top of your User Profile page.

Updated WYSIWYG Editor on Tendenci site

We have revised the WYSIWYG editor that appears on all the edit pages of your Tendenci site.  This is our way of increasing the usability of the software and it also decreases the load time for edit pages.

There is an easy to use, formatting tool available that you can use to create tables and any additional formating.  You can download this free tool Nvu at http://www.nvu.com/download.php. Once you have added formating to your content using Nvu, you can simply copy the code onto the specific page on your site. 

We are taking any feedback you may have about the revised editor.  So if there is a specific icon you find yourself missing, please do email us at Schipul Support.

A new look for Tendenci tabs

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You may have noticed that your Tendenci dashboard pages have a little different look these days.  We updated our navigation tabs to be a little sleeker and a little prettier.

Not a gigantic change – but a nice little tweak to keep things looking good for you. 

Search User Relationships

Also included in yesterday’s update is a new search page that allows you to search user relationships.  It includes a checkbox to search for users NOT in a group.  This is helpful to find users that have not subscribed to particular group, like your newsletter.

This item is linked as option D3 on the "Manage Users" page.

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Thanks,
J

Prompt to update user profile

We posted a Tendenci update yesterday morning.  Included is a new prompt for users to update their profile if it hasn’t been done in the past 90 days.  Here’s a screen shot:

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Thanks,
J

Reporting Data Warehouse Data Loss

Between December 20th and
January 4th, with some variation, many of our Tendenci clients lost
some reporting data.  Specifically what
is known as “eventlog” data was not migrated correctly
to the data warehouse tables. Because this is an ongoing script it can not be
recovered from daily backups. So the specific reporting data for that date range
is non recoverable.

This is a bad thing. First and
foremost we apologize to our clients.

The only good news is that eventlog data is redundant with the actual web site log
files. Eventlogs are simply an easier way to view the information and definitely
one advantage of Tendenci. In this case the redundancy is good as all log files
are available with no loss. Yes inconvenient, but we do have access to all
records of activity for that time period.

If you are a premium client using
our statistics server, you can view your information there. If you are using
Google Analytics all of that data will be fine.

Again, we apologize and please do
contact us at (281) 497-6567 for non
billable assistance if there is reporting needs for that specific period of
time we can assist with.

Sincerely,
The Schipul
Team