Check out all the goodies we built into this week’s Tendenci updates just for you:
Global Settings and Content Management
- You can now copy custom Forms
- Forms that subscribe users to groups now require an email address
- Clicking the “Help files” link on the admin bar underneath the Content section now takes admins to the more accessible interface than site users see
Membership Module Updates
- Memberships no longer require an application to create
- Administrators can now upgrade a user to a member from the user’s profile page by simply selecting the appropriate membership type.
- You can now add company representatives to a corporate membership faster with an auto-completion option
- Administrators can now use custom email addresses in the new “Sender” field added to Membership notices
Photo and Video Modules Updates
- Administrators can now choose to download entire photo album sets as zip files in addition to downloading individual photos
Social Media Integration
- Tendenci Content Module data, including Events, Memberships, Jobs, Directories, and others, can now be automatically imported to custom designed Facebook Page tabs.
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question about subscribing to groups requiring e-mails. I use the groups to identify my prospects as well. I don’t always have e-mail address for them. Can an admin override that? If not it’s really going to screw up my system.
Becci,
I first want to clarify that the update mentioned in this post is related to requiring Custom Forms to include an email address field for Forms that add someone to a user group. These updates are also specific only to our latest version of Tendenci. None of the updates mentioned relate to previous versions of Tendenci software (versions 1-4).
Tendenci 5 requires an email address in order to create a new user profile, and this was implemented because our client site administrators requested the that their members and users could automatically change their passwords and request forgotten passwords. This lightened website admins’ workloads by emailing the members/users directly without manual assistance from an admin.
To answer your question in general: Tendenci 5 site admins can add new users and add them to groups without knowing their email address. You would simply add the user’s information you did have, fill in a fake email address, select to not have the user receive email, and then set their status to non-interactive.
This would create a user who did not have login capabilities and would not be set to receive email addresses.
Thanks for your question – we will follow up with you via email next week and answer any other questions specific to BABCHouston’s website that you might have.
~Sarah M Worthy