Category: Tendenci software updates

We've added a new feature to our custom forms.  This feature allows the person who fills-out and successfully submits your form to become an instant active user on your Tendenci powered website.

We made some changes to the events module.  There is no longer a 'pre page,' we're not really sure what it was doing there to begin with, but it's gone so you don't have to worry about it anymore.

We have also given you the ability to show-off your attendees.  This feature allows you to display the attendees to administrators, members, users, or everyone.  Now the people you invite can decide whether they'll come to your get-together based on who's already going, we've all done this at one point.

Both of these updates have already been released and ready for your enjoyment.

Our Tendenci programming team has some super-exciting HUGE plans in the works for Tendenci this year – we are re-inventing our already super software to make it an even more profitable Web platform for your organization and members.

The sleeker, faster Tendenci 5.0 will migrate to the LAMP (Linus, Apache, MySQL, PHP) open source Web platform.  This transition will still maintain our extreme devotion to Security that we have always had, but with greater scalability and improved data management.

By being part of a vibrant open source community and collaboratively working on a lot of the 'basics' of the Tendenci software, we will be able to spend more time working on cutting edge features like social network integration.  Your Tendenci-driven Web site will be even more effective in the search engines and you'll find your entire site experience to be even more user friendly and beautiful.

So in the months to come, expect to hear more news on Tendenci 5.0.  Change is good – we can't wait to share with you what we've got in store for Tendenci! 

In the meantime, please check out our Tendenci Forums and let us know what kind of functionality YOU want your Tendenci-powered Web site to have.

Hurray!  We burned the late night oil last night getting your new Site Settings and other functionality going strong – but everything is back up and running this morning.

If you have any questions on any new functionality you see, be sure to contact our Support Team by emailing support @ schipul dot com or calling (281) 497.6567, ext 411.

We'll be sending out a full newsletter explaining the updates with handy help file links.  Happy Friday!

We're starting 2009 off with a bang here at Schipul!!

We re-designed our Schipul website and now we're focusing on making your Tendenci software even more about you, dear clients. We've got loads of new updates to our Tendenci software that will help you better tell your story and customize your Web site in 2009.

You asked to be able to turn off modules or make your tabs disappear and now you've got it! You'll be able to contact our support team any time and we'll be able to whisk those mods away with a click of the button.

Do you have trouble navigating Site Variables? No worries. We're rolling out a brand new Site Settings user interface – we've re-organized your Site
Settings to correspond with the modules they affect, making it easier
for you to change the settings you need to on your site.

Our favorite update? The brand new Story Module!  Check out the Schipul home page's orange Story box for an initial look. It gives you a super easy way to update your site with quick 'Stories', links and images. We want to whole world to know what you are up to! The Story Module is still in serious test mode but we hope to have it out early this year!

Stay tuned to the Tendenci Blog and Tendenci Twitter feed as we announce the live updates and dish out even more exciting new!     

All Tendenci Powered web sites that are in development mode will be temporarily inaccessible while we make some major updates.  We apologize for the inconvenience, but will work swiftly to get them back online.

If you are a site administrator and your site is using the membership module, then this update is for you. As a site administrator, you will notice that the membership report – members with no member ID – is easy to populate the member IDs now. Simply click the button next to the member records, and member ID will be populated to its user record immediately. This report is linked from the memberships report console (http://www.yourdomain.com/en/memberships/reports/).

As you know, we’ve been constantly updating our Tendenci modules to make your job easier. This week we are going to have some minor updates. Here is the list:

    1)  Ballots – Random Display of Candidates or Options.

When comes to elections, sometimes the order really does matter. This Ballots update will give the site administrators the option of randomizing the candidates order for each voter by simply checking the Randomly Display on the Ballots add or edit pages.

    2)  Physical Locations Import

As a site admin, the Physical Locations Import allows you to bulk add locations to your database by just a few clicks. It is linked from Physical loc. –> Reports.

    3)  Jobs – Category Option Integrated into the Jobs Add / Edit Pages

If you are familiar with the Jobs module, the categories are separated with the add and edit pages. You could select the categories only after you added the jobs. Not anymore! Now you can select the categories while you are adding or editing the jobs.

    4)  CMS Form Anonymous View

With this update, after a user completed and submitted the form, he/she will be able to view or print his/her submissions even if he/she was not logged in to the site when he/she was filling out the form.