January 2009
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Smart Groups Success!
ksc: dude, we had the best small group signups today!
ksc: all because of stafftool :)
stafftool: woo!
ksc: 45 people signed up for groups!
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New Church-wide Options Give You Even More Control
Just finished pushing out some new church-wide options that will give you greater control over some aspects of the site that users have requested the ability to tighten up a bit.
First off is Contributions. Some churches have expressed the desire to internally use the contributions functionality, but not make it available to their congregation. This is now possible by unchecking the...
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New Smart Group Rule - NOT In a Group
@ksc had mentioned that he needed to gather up all the people in his congregation who weren’t part of a Life Group so he could send them a message to encourage them to become involved. Stafftool’s Smart Groups offer a way to track people who are already part of groups, but not the opposite, so I set out to make this possible…
Now, you can choose a “who are not members...
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Robustified Exports
Up ‘til now exports were done in real time when you clicked on an export link. This usually worked fine… unless you had a lot of records in your database. If you did, then there was a good chance that the whole process would just time out your browser and throw an error (as well as wreak havoc on the backend server). Obviously, something needed to be done…
Now when you...
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More Flexible Smart Groups
Ever wanted to have a dynamic group of people who are in either one group or another? Or a group of people who are tagged with “guitar” OR “drums”? Well, now you can.
Just choose “any” from that drop down and the Smart Group will find everyone who matches any of your rules. Or, choose the default “all” and it will work like it has up until now,...
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Groups - Now WAY Faster
If you are a heavy user of Groups and Smart Groups, you have probably noticed that going to the Groups tab got pretty slow once you had a lot of stuff in there. Binnerri, one of our very first and most active users, had so many groups and smart groups that their page was taking around 6 seconds to load… not good.
So, after some work last night (essentially backporting the work I’ve...