Admin: What's New

(most recent changes at top)

• 11-12 initial entry of awards seems to tbe working.
• 11-10 Added easy way to search for UIDs using name. Answer is given in a pop-up window (yes, I'm learning more javascript)
• 11-08 Working to improve security against hacking.
• 10-23 Added admin option on verify mailing lists to see who is NOT on the mailing list (so you can know who is not participating and invite them to).
• 08-18 improved error logging, emails when errors occur
• 06-28 Better logging for senduseremail log entries
• 03-15 Bug fix for the "validate Yahoogroups addrs".
• 03-02 Newsletter editor can now edit anyone's newsletter setting, as well as all info for State officers.
• 02-17 Internally permissions have been re-worked to allow for more flexibility. Always possible some bug snuck in, so keep an eye out, but so far, so good.
• 02-15 Ikonboard support added in (optional use). New/created members will have an IKB acct created. Also when any members info is editted/saved, their info will also get updated into the IKB db to keep in sync (password, name, city info).
• 12-11 "check Yahoo addrs" now prints a list at the end with just the email addrs that should be removed. This list can be copy/pasted into the form on Yahoo for removing members. Much easier than going into the Member list and changing each individual person to "unsubscribe".
• 12-11 1.67dev. The integrity check can be run command-line (for a cron job) and the report mailed. Good to set for mid-month to catch anything not cleaned up with last months renewals.
• 12-11 The exit letter default (send or not send) is now cofigurable in the config file.
• 11-15 1.65 released, adding file uploads for VPs, eJaycall editor.
• 11-01 Gallery now works with the roster. It makes a direct access to mySQL DB. "Scrapbook" permissions will allow a member to add photos to Gallery.
• 10-27 Cleaned up do_query to more gracefully handle errors. It didn't crash, but the report was cryptic.
• 10-25 File uploading implemented. VPs can upload CPGs, which are zip'd after uploading and moved into the CPG library. Jaycall editor can upload Jaycall and send notice to all eJaycall subscribers (merged in what was an external script)
• 10-10 Added the DESCRIBE command to the do_query for the generic mySQL query, to get the current table description.
• 10-05 Letters can now contain any #FIELD_NAME#, which will be replaced with each member's actual info (before it was just #FIRST#, #LAST#).
• 09-29 The "limit" field on the generic mySQL query is now passed forward one time, for subsequent use without having to change it each time.
• 09-28 Non SELECT statements in generic mySQL query box should not generate errors any more (tho still restricted in use)
• 09-25 Fixed a bug in new member add password generation
• 09-20 Yahoo group validate improved to give more specific results (ie. addr is "known" but is of a member that quit, etc.
• 09-05 Added the JCAnnounce feature for the very few people with that permission. God knows if I broke anything in the process :-)
• 09-02 Fixed Join/Renew months so that 12's should get changed to 11. On the Jaycee calendar December is not used for membership... books are closed at the end of November. All December joins are counted as November for renewal the next year.
• 09-02 The required fields now have a colored background (only for admins)
• 08-27 This was always possible with the "generic query", but added a button to the renew panel to create mailing labels for the people up for renewal. So if these are generated before the renewal month actually comes up, they can be used for sending renewal letters, etc.
• 08-27 Added a new feature to the renewal panel.. when you do the drops, the roster can send a mail to those people wishing them well.. and letting them know that they have been dropped... this may catch a few people by suprise causing them to renew, and or help catch the infrequent mistake that is made on our part.. and help identify when checks were lost in the mail. Certainly the text/tone of the letter should be carefully considered. It is the "exit" letter under the "Manage letters" menu section. Right now, the letter is not sent (by default), there is a Y/N button at the bottom of the renew panel to choose whether to send it. It'd be good to get this working and then we can change the default to yes.
• 06-26 When you create a member, checkboxes (on by default) are on the form to auto-send e-list subscribe invitations out, and to auto-send the welcome letter.
• 05-18 Bug fix made in renewal panel.
• 05-15 Testing of new system ongoing.
• 05-15 Verification email system added. Will run on a once/month basis, sending emails to 1/12th of the chapter asking them to verify their roster info. Bounces will be directed to the roster maintainer. Members w/o email addrs on file will have their info forwarded to the Membership VP for verification.
• 05-15 New verification form letter added.
• 05-15 Roster privileges system revamped. Now have separate levels of permissions for Historian, Buddy Chairperson, and Jaycall editor.
• 01-31 For privacy reasons, passords can't be serached on from the SQL window.
• 01-15 Version 1.22 released
• 01-15 A few tweaks to the create-user screen.
• 01-13 Version 1.2 uploaded to RJC site
• 01-10 Updated/upgraded the admin interface to handle letters much better. You can now add/edit/delete letters. So I think no webmaster intervention will be needed for anything.
• 01-06 Is group edit useful???? Trying to figure out when its really (if ever) needed vs. doing an UPDATE command in the Query window (not an option yet, but could be). Update would simply be restricted by a WHERE clause... although group edit might be safer :-)
• 01-06 When you create a new member, it will search for close matches for the case where someone may have rejoined, or is otherwise a duplicate. No "smarts" in this yet, just lets you know who exists so you can see if maybe they are a double. Name and addr given for verification purposes (since we will have some same names that are different people).
• 01-06 Added an edit by name. Partial match is ok. If only one match it will go to edit for that person, else will give table of multiple matches with edit button for each person. Match limit is 10.
• 01-06 Generic queries will now return an "edit" button next to each person.
• 01-06 Board positions are now from a select menu (easier to use).
• 01-06 Added a Deleted category to the status for pure mistakes. Usually tho, deleting should not be needed. It will record in the notes field when a delete is made.
• 01-02 Changed the default query limit to 25 (on admin panel)
• 01-02 The send letter function is now active (before it just printed to the screen instead of actually mailing).
• 01-02 The create new member form now has a "next action" pull-down, so that you can go directly from adding one new member to adding the next, changing the pull down at the end to send a letter, or just do nothing. The group welcome will do a search for all members added this month and this year, and updated on that day, which _should_ get you a list of all the people added that day. Not a perfect search, but we don't (yet) store a "created" timestamp.
• 01-02 Bug for title field fixed.
• 01-02 There is a bug in the javascript for Title field. Working to remove bug.
• 12-22 javascript is in place, and seems to be working. Note that it will do a few things for you... you do not need to put in the -'s or the 'x' in the phone #'s (or bday) fields... if the correct # of digits are there, it will auto-format those for you. But, you DO need to zero-pad single digit days/months... ie 1/1/2002 must be 20020102, NOT just 0211.
• 12-19 ------- feature cutoff for version 1.1? only bugfixes now ------
• 12-19 Check for invalid UserID in EditUser.
• 12-19 Added function to allow checking of addrs from JCB. Its not fully automated, but pretty fast and painless.
• 12-19 Admin javascript for form checking checks many more fields (that a non-admin would not be changing).
• 12-16 Added a small Jaycall_admin_panel that allows the Jaycall editor to edit the state level user records.
• 12-16 Have created a new "status" named "State".. purpose being to include state HQ and state officers that get Jaycall (we must send at least the copy to HQ to get POE points). People with status='State' will not show up on anything except Jaycall labels, and eJaycall.
• 12-16 Have a "driving directions" gizmo worked up. Not sure how/where to include it. Can see some people having "stalker" concerns, but really not providing anything that any stalker couldn't get to anyway (since they could type the addr into mapquest themselves).
• 12-16 Database stats button added to admin panel.
• 12-15 OFFliNE mode added, so can be taken offline by changing one variable.
• 12-15 Added note to edit form that NOTES section is only 200 characters.
• 12-15 Minimal logging function installed. Will be viewable from admin panel.
• 12-15 Decided to break the admin features into their own log.
• 12-14 ---------------------- cutoff of version 1.0 -----------------------

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