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We are updating your Tendenci websites with new features and improved functionality this morning. We also wanted to show you how much we love our clients and you’ll notice a new pink link on your admin bar. Click on the link and receive Valentine’s Sweets for being such a Sweetheart!
Tendenci’s Custom Forms now include the option for your visitors to set their own price or donation amount.
When you create a custom payment form, you’ll simply leave the Price field blank to allow your site visitors to input their own price. You can add multiple payment amounts and add this custom price option to the mix.
Here’s an example from Avant Garden using 2 fixed prices plus an any amount option:
Here’s more great updates to Love about your Tendenci software for nonprofit and association website management:
Find out all the awesome things Tendenci can do for your Non-Profit or Association with our 30-Day FREE Trial. Then – show us what you can do with your Tendenci website!
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We’re excited to share the following updates to the Tendenci Software this week!
Coming Soon – Tracking Downloads in the Files Module!This week we laid the ground work in the back end of Tendenci to allow you to track how many times any file in the Files module has been downloaded. This will give admins analytics on how often their files are downloaded and allow them to filter within a certain file type or time period. This is extremely useful for tracking how often your visitors are viewing your content.
The front end interface isn’t completed just yet, but will be soon!
Payment methods, CAPTCHA, register & pay button moved to the bottom of event registration page (see screenshot at right)
Using out of date software means you aren’t getting the latest functionality, and you may be at risk of security threats because that browser is no longer supported. If you’re still using IE7 or IE8, upgrade here!
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More to come next week!
We’ve updated the event registration system with new features that will go live in all Tendenci websites later this week.
Once the new system is implemented, Tendenci site admins will be able to enable event registration for anyone by anyone else when registering for one of your events. This includes registering someone who qualifies for a discount.
You and your members will be able to use this new feature to register your friends and professional associates for events for them and pay the correct discounted price they are eligible for. You won’t have to share login information and passwords or miss out on event registrations because someone wanted to register but didn’t have time or forgot.
As an attendee who is not logged in: you click the register button, select one of the available prices and submit your registration. You can repeat the second step as many times as permitted [by the event] to include more people.
In order to qualify for discounted pricing, you’ll be asked to submit your email address or member number. You can register using a discounted price if the email address or member number submitted is eligible. You can also repeat this step as many times as permitted.
If an email address is associated with a discounted price, that email address can only be used once to register. If the email address is not associated with a discounted price, the email address can be used repeatedly. This will prevent someone from using the same email address for a member to register their non-member friends just to get the discounted price.
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Questions about these Updates?
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Some Tendenci Sites will experience a 10 to 15min downtime early this Sunday morning while we upgrade Tendenci 5.0 MySQL Database on client websites. Please contact us at support@tendenci.com if you have any questions.
This update is so big that you might have to clear and refresh your web browser before you can see the changes on your Tendenci website. We’ve got a great help file from the Schipul website on how to clear your web browser for you: https://www.tendenci.com/help-files/how-clear-or-bypass-your-browser-cache-5-seconds/.
Our biggest update this week is our addition of the physical location application – enabling your site visitors to search for the nearest physical location of your organization on your website!
Click Here to learn how to improve your email marketing using Tendenci’s Newsletter Marketing Dashboard integrated with Campaign Monitor’s email marketing software and find other resources for email marketing success!
Not using Tendenci for your website CMS?
Find out all the awesome things Tendenci can do for your Association with our 30-Day FREE Trial. Then – show us what you can do with your Tendenci website!
Questions about these Updates?
Hit us up in the comments or over on Get Satisfaction and try out our newest self sign-up version of the Tendenci Software FREE for 30 days!
With all of the recent focus on protecting the open web, it’s been great to read some of the stories that really show people’s passion for the internet community. Here is a recent story from us on how we created a new feature for our users.
Tendenci modules have tabs. In past and current versions of the software we have used a tabbed navigation system for our modules with exposed module and contextual links mixed together. Let me give an example.
When viewing an Article as a site administrator, you will see links that relate to all articles, such as:
These links are great and are useful anywhere in the Articles module. You will also see these links:
The links in the second group relate just to the article we are viewing. In some cases, the separation between these two sets of links is obvious. However, in more complex modules like Event registration and Membership management, these links can really start to add up. See the image below for a real world example:
We have been on the hunt for a solution to this problem for some time and were fortunate to stumble upon a perfect solution earlier this week.
A few days ago our team came across an article about Bootstrap on A List Apart. In it, author Mark Otto of Twitter describes the process of creating Bootstrap, an “open-source front-end toolkit” made with the goal of helping designers/developers build good stuff fast. While I’ve always been a sucker for the newest and the flashiest in web tech, Bootstrap had much more going for it. It is cross-browser tested so it will work for the broad majority of people. It’s written with LESS, a programmer-friendly way of writing and compiling CSS. Best of all, it’s freely available to use.
There are several parts of Bootstrap that we like, and one of the key features we are now using in Tendenci 5 is the tabs. The tab design from Bootstrap allow us to tuck all of our module links into a drop down, and with a little programming from our side, we can create columns and grouping for much better organization. We’ve chosen to split these two groups of links into two columns, each labelled, with the goal of making it easier to find the links to the functionality you want.
We outlined this goal and sketched out some ways of implementing this into the software. We began the work on Wednesday the 18th and were able to complete it in less than 24 hours and in time for our weekly release. We think the tabs have a much more modern, clean look that will go well next to more modern site designs. We are excited about the aesthetic changes, but the new functionality for the tab links is the real shining point here.
Without toolkits like Bootstrap, we would never have been able to implement a solution in such little time. Without a free and open web, companies like Twitter may not be able to gain enough success to be able to release tools like these. Companies like Github are relied on by people like us making software to be used on the web. It’s great tools like these that help us rapidly develop new features and updates for Tendenci.
We are very excited to announce our new tabs, and we give a big thanks to Bootstrap. They should be rolling out to a Tendenci 5 site near you soon.
We made some new updates to our Tendenci software for association website management this week.
Check out all the awesome things Tendenci can do for your Association with our 30-Day FREE Trial. Then – show us what you can do with your Tendenci website!
Click Here to learn how to improve your email marketing using Tendenci’s Newsletter Marketing Dashboard integrated with Campaign Monitor’s email marketing software and find other resources for email marketing success!
Hit us up in the comments or over on Get Satisfaction and try out our newest self sign-up version of the Tendenci Software FREE for 30 days!
Check out all the goodies we built into this week’s Tendenci updates just for you:
Questions about these updates? Hit us up in the comments or over on Get Satisfaction and try out our newest self sign-up version of the Tendenci Software FREE for 30 days!
We added new features to Tendenci for you to enjoy in the New Year. Check out this week’s Tendenci updates:
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/!
Using your Tendenci website just got a little bit easier. Check out these updates we made over the weekend:
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/!