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Recent Updates

Submitted Mar 24 by Toby Sterrett

I just pushed out a new version with a few slight updates and/or changes.

First off, I finished up some of the logic for group leaders. Now, group leaders:

  • can add people and events
  • can associate those events with only the groups they lead
  • can edit people they lead
  • can edit events of groups they lead

This enables you to assign a non-admin user as a leader of a group (or groups) and they'll be able to add people and events to them, as well as edit people within them. That way, if they lead a small group and they get a new visitor, they can add them to the database and associate them with their group. Or, they can add a special event that they have planned without having to go through the staff. There are slight concerns with events since they'll be able to add public events that can show up on the public calendar, however, they need this capability to have their own events be public. However, the assumption is that you will only be making responsible people you trust group leaders and that this shouldn't be a problem. One possible issue - should a group leader be able to edit a higher ranking staff member who happens to be in the group they lead? If you see any holes in this set up that need to be patched, let me know.

Another usability feature that was added is more explicit duplication of people records. There is a new icon for people that is a little person with a plus sign. Click on this and the person will be opened up in a new form with all the relevant info filled out, but the first name will be "Copy of First Name" and a few things won't be carried over, like birthday, login account, relationships... So now instead of opening up a person you want to make a copy of and clicking the "save as new record" just click the duplicate button and make the changes and save, which will create a new record. Since the duplication is more explicit and doesn't carry over things that shouldn't be duplicated, it's more straight forward to quickly create new records using someone else as a template.

Finally, church addresses now always have a custom text field rather than the normal drop down with Home, Work, Other, etc. This is due to the many unique situations that churches will have for their addresses, such as "Youth Building," "Office," "Sanctuary" etc, whereas people normally require the standard work and home address labels, which make things like importing and exporting more standard. As always, your feedback is appreciated!

 
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