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Idea on how your Organization could use the Tendenci Photo Gallery Module!

Hey All Tendenci lovers!

I hope your holiday was great!  Most of you have heard of the Tendenci Photo Gallery Module. If you have not, it is module that allows users/admins to upload and organize photos on your Tendenci site.

Visit the help file that shows you how to add a photo gallery to your site.  It is super easy and fun!

If you are wondering how you can use the photo galleries module to assist you with your marketing efforts.  Here is one idea…

  1. If you host or attend an event that is relevant to your industry, take photos!
  2. Upload the photos to your Tendenci site using the photo albums module.
  3. Link the album from the home page of your site or within the navigation.
  4. If you take photos of people within your organization at the event, send a newsletter to your members with a link to the gallery. People love to see pictures of themselves!

This should help to promote your organization for other events you may host. Don’t forget to tag your photos in the gallery so that when people search the internet for event photos that will find your gallery!

Get creative and have fun!  Happy New Year!

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What Captcha?

Happy holidays Tendenci users! Before the new year begins we would like you to hear about an update on form captcha. Captcha is an image with a special code in it that appears on web forms in Tendenci and is used to prevent spam. It looks like this:

Captcha

It can be very pesky to fill out for administrators and users so we have changed it to only show for anonymous users. This update will go live soon so keep those eyelids peeled.

Have a wonderful holiday and a happy new year!

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Tendenci Membership Reports Update

We have updated a couple of membership reports recently. Not only do they
have the new look and feel now, they also include the total active
members. Under the Member Trends on the membership console page, click on Active Members YTD and Active Members YTD by Type, it will bring you to the updated reports. Certainly you have to be an admin to do so.

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The active members YTD gives you a good visual of the trend of your membership growth at a glance.

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You can also exclude the total active members and take a close look at the new members and renewing
members.

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This update can be found in the tendenci help file: How Can I View Members Over Time by Month?

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Tendenci modifications that are pending financial resources

Good morning Tendenci lovers!  You should be aware of our vapor ware page that contains awesome core ideas for modification to the Tendenci software.

Here you will find lots of good ideas that are pending financial resources. If you are interested in funding in conjunction with another client. Please let us know.

You can email us at support@tendenci.com or call at 281.497.6567 ext. 411. Ask for Kim. 

Seasons Greeting from your Team at Schipul.

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Tendenci newsletters and Outlook 2007

As some of you now already Outlook 2007 does not read back ground images in newsletters.  Most of you Tendenci users probably have a Tendenci newsletter template that does not look well in Outlook 2007 because of the back ground graphic issue.

Tim Newton the creative director here at Schipul has created a lovely help file that explains how to design newsletters for Outlook 2007.

Check out the help file here:

If you need us to help you change these and make them viewable in 2007, contact support@tendenci.com.

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RSS feeds can be added to your home page of your Tendenci site

You can now keep the content of your home page fresh by adding RSS feeds to the home page of your Tendenci web site. Give your users/members the latest and greatest information by adding feeds to your home page.

Please content support@tendenci.com if you are interested in taking advantage of the functionality. This addition of RSS to the home page only takes a short time but we at Schipul will need to do this for you.

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User permissions allow for Admins rights to specific modules

Good news..Now your members/users can be an editor or an administrator of Content Management and Calendar Events Module.

If a user is an editor of Content Management or Calendar events they can make edits to the modules and they are sent to pending approval. An administrator  will get an email when an edit has been made and approve the change before the change goes live.

If a user is an admin of Content Management or Calendar events they can make edits to the module and the changes go live immediately.

This is just one way to give extra control to users while still monitoring content and not opening up complete access for edits to your site.

For more, visit the help files on how to set this up on your site.

 

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New Tendenci Dashboard to be released

We’re excited to announce that a brand new and more user friendly
Tendenci Console is about to be released next week on November 12, 2007.  This Tendenci
update will change the look of your Tendenci Console or Homepage.
This simplified interface will streamline access to your most used
Tendenci modules (like User search and Calendar) and move the Admin
Only Links to the upper right hand corner.

Admins also see live RSS feeds from Tendenci Blog and the new Help Files Module.

Admin View
Admin view of the new Tendenci homepage

As always, Admins will see many more links than a regular user or member.

User View
User View of the new Tendenci homepage

As an Admin, you still have to opportunity to choose what Tendenci home page appears on your site.
We want to be sure you understand what the options are for custom user home pages and how, as site Admin, you are able to change the user home page that appears on your site.
We hope you enjoy the movement towards greater usability within the Tendenci software.

If you have any questions please contact our Support Team at support@tendenci.com or call us at (281) 497-6567 ext. 411 or (877) 724-4785 ext. 411.

 

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Help files roll out

Our current tendenci help files is in the process of being transfered to a new and improved help files module. What does this mean? Question and answer format, easily request a help file, better searching capabilities, new stream-line interface, and the ability to use the module on your own tendenci web site! Here is a screenshot of the new module:

New Tendenci Help Files Module

Some features for administrators:

  • Ability to save a help file as a draft
  • Help files can be marked as a f.a.q, rated, and featured
  • Help files can be placed in multiple topics
  • Requested help files can be easily converted to a help file
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Tendenci Software Updates!

Testimonials Updates
Testimonials
Our wonderful programmer Eloy has given the testimonials search a face lift! It now uses styling to present your testimonials.
Directories Updates
Directories
You may now put directories within multiple categories. Yippee! This is easily controlled by a site variable, so if you don’t need it you can always use the old way.
Zip Codes Updates
Zip Codes
You can now control the new zip codes search to tailor to your needs. Need to specify which locations of your establishment show up when a zip code is searched? Well now you can with a new site variable! You may also specify the radius of the search with a site variable.

Photos
The "Next" and "Previous" buttons when flipping though a photo album now start from the first image and move to the last. Don’t want to use those buttons? You can always just click the photo and it will move you to the next image.