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Work Hard, Play Hard

acoppedge — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:42:00 GMT

After weeks of rain in Irving, Texas, the sun was a welcome sight as it shone off the sidewalk chalk painted brightly on the pavement. The playground was wide open and the toys stood ready…not for children, but for Fellowship Technologies’ employees during “recess” at the quarterly All-Hands meeting.

There was a back-to-school theme and the challenge was that no technology could be used during the day - a stretch for a software company full of techies! Our staff was literally forced to remember back to how we did things before computers. Poster board, markers and glue were the tools of the day. CEO, Jeff Hook, played the part of “Principal Hook” while each of the employees sat with their “home room teachers,” consisting of the Fellowship Tech Executive Team. Each department had to present their accomplishments for the past quarter as well as their goals for the next…and all without PowerPoint, Internet or even clipart! The morning was full of classes and presentations with a break to walk to lunch, in single-file lines of course, before heading out to recess.

Games of kickball, football, and foursquare ensued and plenty of bumps and bruises were the rewards for the competitive and friendly matches. After recess came “story time” led by Tammy Polk, VP of Talent and Organizational Effectiveness, with the help of our resident puppeteer, Brian Holt, who uses this skill at his local church in the children’s ministry. Finally, the day was ended with craft projects as part of a fun team exercise.

We know this may sound silly to some, or frivolous to others, but at Fellowship Technologies we hope to nurture a sense of fun and family as well as a strong work ethic and high expectations among our staff. It’s all about balance in our company’s culture. We love to play hard because we all know how much we value working hard. The relationships that are strengthened through this interaction and the information exchanged are invaluable to us as a company and as individuals, and we hope to share both our culture and our lessons with each one of our church partners.

F1Touch for iPhones is Here!

acoppedge — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:35:00 GMT

Christmas has come early for all Fellowship One users! Fellowship Technologies is proud to announce that the highly anticipated iPhone Application called F1Touch, is now available for Apple iPhones as a free download on the App Store. F1Touch exhibits the power of the Fellowship One API in searching for individuals and is fully supported by Fellowship Technologies for all of our church partners. The features for F1Touch include the following:

My Profile

The F1Touch application allows the user to be remembered on a particular device omitting the need to log in to Fellowship One every time it is used. This feature will also allow the user to start up the application precisely where they exited the previous session.

People Search

Fellowship One is intrinsically people-centric and the F1Touch follows that philosophy with its state-of-the-art people search engine. Users will be able to do name searches in a variety of formulas. F1Touch delivers quick results by limiting the initial numbers of results, and along with the individual’s name, it will also display images when available.

Individual Details

F1 Touch also allows for a comprehensive view of individual details from the Fellowship One database. Using the F1Touch application, phone calls and emails can be made or sent with just one touch of the screen, and the touch of an address will instantly access Google Maps and provide exact locations.

With the F1Touch, the power and ease of the Fellowship One system is literally at the fingertips of the user, which allows the church and its staff to reach its people from anywhere at anytime. The F1Touch iPhone application is available as a free download from the iTunes App Store.

Fellowship One Release v.1.8.1

FTEducationSvcs — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT

Fellowship One version 1.8.1 contains the following updates:

Sub Funds
The Add/Edit Sub Funds page is enhanced to ease Sub Fund management. Once a Sub Fund is created, its Parent Fund may not be changed. Additionally, a feature is added to enable selective viewing of Active, Inactive or All Sub Funds. Sub Funds may also be filtered by Parent Fund.

Super Check-in
The Super Check-in function is updated to allow users to edit a Super Check-in that contains at least one activity belonging to a ministry to which the user has Write access. The Super Check-in can be edited even if it is shared by other ministries the user does not have Write permission to. For example, if a Super Check-in has activities for Children’s, Students and Worship services across three different ministries a user only needs write permission to one of those ministries to edit the Super Check-in.

Contact Form Workflow
When a contact form is entered and saved, the page will navigate back to where the process begins. For example: If a contact form is entered via the actions gear on the Search for an Individual page, Fellowship One will take you back to the Search for an Individual screen to search for the next person. This is corrected to establish a more efficient data entry workflow.

Managing Contacts
The security rights for managing contacts is expanded to include Ministry Read along with People Contact permissions.

Online Contribution Statement
A new page is added to the Fellowship One portal to provide enhancements to the printable view of contribution history accessed through WebLink’s Online Giving tool. The Online Statement page can be found in Giving>Contribution Statements>Online Statement. New features to the online statement include ability to enter an Employer Identification Number (EIN), Header notes, Footer notes and an option to show subfunds in the online statement.

The Church Information section must be completed prior to setting up Online Statement Details. Navigate to Church Information via WebLink>WebLink Setup>Church Information. Complete details for Online Giving are available in the WebLink Users Guide (62MB PDF).

Exploring the new Fellowship One Portal

acoppedge — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:22:00 GMT

As we revealed yesterday, the Fellowship Tech Development team has put in an incredible amount of work to give our church partners not only an updated interface, but a more dynamic and efficient experience. Today, we're exploring some of the new enhancements in this important update.

First, here's a side-by-side comparison of the old Portal interface with the new one:

Perhaps the biggest change is the removal of the side navigation bar, which has been replaced by a new drop-down drawer navigation at the top of the screen. This new dynamic drawer menu slides down over the page content, revealing every link in the Portal.

Another intuitive navigation addition is a simple "back tab", which maintains the current state of the session, eliminating the need to use the browser's back button. So, if you're looking at an individual's details, you can always use the new back tab to go up one level to the family view without navigating through the menu.

When you need actionable items, but don’t want to clutter the interface, gear menus can help. They contain a list of collapsible actions at the top-right of the page, so you can have quick access to common steps, eliminating unnecessary mouse clicks. By that same token, the actions sidebar can help keep actionable items visible, without making them a focal point of the page. You can focus on the task at hand with secondary actions nearby on the sidebar.

A new convenience feature allows you to view more details about a person, without leaving the page. This will show a picture (if available) and pertinent details that are most commonly needed when trying to find contact information. Included in this view is a map link that pulls from Google Maps to show you exactly where a person lives.

Tomorrow, we'll look into even more new aspects of the new Portal interface and share some of the cool, new ways to maximize Fellowship One.

A new look is coming soon to Fellowship One

Administrator — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:00:00 GMT

We are excited to tell you about the upcoming interface redesign for Fellowship One. We will be placing the newly redesigned Fellowship One into the staging environment on Monday, October 12th, so that your church has plenty of time to become familiar with the changes before the final release planned for November.

The changes, updates and enhancements are far more than cosmetic; they represent a wholesale change in how we will build future functionality. We chose to redesign Fellowship One primarily to improve ease of use and provide more room for new features. Please read on for more details about this exciting project.

BEFORE AND AFTER

As you can see from the image below, we've made some dramatic changes to the overall look and layout of Fellowship One. But don't worry, all of the same powerful features are still available.

EASE OF USE

A number of changes were made to improve the usability of Fellowship One. We increased the font size and created a common experience with a consistent look and feel throughout the application. We added helpful and intuitive functions such as a new gear tool and actions bar that should help minimize training efforts, and make it easier to learn.

We grouped menu items more appropriately, and in some cases, renamed certain items to better reflect the action. For example, all Volunteer Pipeline actions are grouped together and located under "People." We have also placed the "Ministry Selection" drop-down in the center of the page, and redesigned the home page with a new "My Tasks" section as the prominent feature on the screen. As a side note, the new design provides support for the Safari and Internet Explorer 8 web browsers. Please note that Internet Explorer 6.x or below will no longer be supported.

BREATHING ROOM

The new menu navigation drops down from the top to create more space for both an improved work flow and room for additional information. In the future, this additional space will be used for dashboard-like tools displaying relevant data points. Another benefit is the elimination of horizontal scrolling, making readability of the pages much higher. We also provided a new hover feature over the person icon for a quick picture (if available) of each member.

FUTURE GROWTH

There were a lot of technical reasons we pursued this project as well, such as gains in performance, shortening the development time of new solutions, and much more. To learn more about the technical benefits please visit the Fellowship One Developer blog.

Finally, check out this satirical video we put together of our developers describing the new Fellowship One Portal interface.

Experience Fellowship One Newsletter: September 2009

FTEducationSvcs — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:51:00 GMT

The September newsletter is full of information about the latest Fellowship One releases and projects, our new monthly Fellowship One User Story Contest, details about the upcoming Dynamic Church Roadshow in California, and so much more. Keep an eye out this afternoon for this month’s installment!

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Fellowship One Release: v.1.8.0

FTEducationSvcs — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:00:00 GMT

Fellowship One Portal version 1.8.0 contains the following:

Enhancements:

The Add a Household process has improved to permit address verification in Fellowship One. The new workflow is very conversational in nature and while the page elements have not changed, the layout is easier to navigate and view. Addresses entered into Fellowship One will be cleansed to ensure they are accurate mailing addresses. To verify an address, a combination of the following is required: Address 1 and City and State OR Address 1 and Postal code. Other variations of an address may be entered and saved in Fellowship One, but the address will not be verified. Watch the updated Add a Household video HERE. Note: The address verification feature is not available to churches using a Basic Edition of Fellowship One.

The Household and Individual view pages have been enhanced to display the date last updated when hovering the cursor over address and communication values.

The option to require an email address in a WebLink Contact Form is now possible. To enable this new feature, navigate to the WebLink tab under WebLink Setup>Church Information and select the Require Email Address on web-enabled Contact Form checkbox. This option applies to all of your web-enabled Contact Forms. Download the WebLink User Guide and consult the Setup and Contact Form chapters.

The view household members section in the Individual View has been enhanced to allow the Save page settings option in either the expanded or collapsed state.

Corrected Issues:

In the Individual View, the Attributes and Requirements date control fields have been updated to allow use of the Tab key.

On the Household View screen, the Authorizations section has been corrected to prevent members with a Household Position of Other (extended family) from being automatically authorized. Individuals with a position of Other, will be added as an option for Authorizations, but the checkbox is not automatically selected.

The Attributes and Requirements date fields in the Individual View have been updated to allow dates to be entered in the MM/DD/YYYY format using the numeric keypad.

In the Report Library, two additional options have been added to the Named Date Range drop down: “Next Quarter” and “Next 3 Months.” These selections will not include the current quarter or current month.

WebLink v.1.3.10

WebLink version 1.3.10 contains the following enhancement:

If the option to Require Email Address on web-enabled Contact Form is selected, an asterisk (*) will display next to the email address field on WebLink’s Contact Forms illustrating it is a required field. The Require Email address on web-enabled Contact Form option can be configured in Fellowship One on the WebLink tab under WebLink Setup>Church Information.

Fellowship One Mobile v.1.0.3
Fellowship One Mobile (mobile.fellowshipone.com) version 1.0.3 corrected the following issues:

The search feature in Fellowship One Mobile has been updated to mimic the People Search in portal.

The map feature in Fellowship One Mobile has been corrected to locate and display an individual’s address using Google Maps.

Fellowship One Mobile has been updated to correctly display email addresses flagged as Work in the Fellowship One portal.

Fellowship One Mobile has been updated to display individual photos at the bottom of the screen.

Individuals were displaying incorrect sub status fields when viewing the individual details within Fellowship One Mobile. This issue has been updated to display the correct sub status reflected within the Fellowship One portal.

Unpack the Online Possibilities at Ministry 2 this October

acoppedge — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:08:00 GMT

Pensacola Beach will play host to Ministry 2 – this hands-on workshop and live event is designed for church leaders and volunteers interested in enhancing their ministry using cutting-edge Internet tools and social media. Ministry 2 Pensacola will take place at Gulf Breeze Church from October 9-10, 2009.

We're excited to announce that some of the key church web and social media experts from around the country will be leading workshops and sharing their experiences. Leaders such as Tony Steward from Lifechurch.tv, and John Saddington of North Point Community Church and ChurchCrunch.com will be in attendance.

Ministry 2 will give you a unique opportunity to ask questions, develop a plan, and share with others in a collaborative environment.

Event topics include:

Implementing the tools of social media in your church;

Producing a web development strategy;

Website visual design;

Managing vendors and volunteers;

Bridging the gap between technology and ministry;

And much more!

Whether you're just getting started with your ministry's first website or trying to build community using social media, Ministry 2 is an event to help you get there. We hope to see you this October. Learn how you can unpack the possibilities at http://www.ministry2.org/pensacola.

A discount on event registration is being offered to churches in your area. To redeem this discount, simply use this code when checking out: COUP1009.

Fellowship Technologies Announces New Partnership with Olan Mills

acoppedge — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:04:00 GMT

Fellowship Technologies is proud to announce their new partnership with Olan Mills, a name synonymous with quality. By leveraging Fellowship One, churches can take advantage of automated picture uploads and Olan Mills’ digital photography to create a church directory. This allows the church to upload both individual photos and family photos right into the Fellowship One member records.

Olan Mills has worked to develop a division catering to churches and church directories, and they have built a reputation for high quality, innovation, attentive customer service and fast delivery time. Fellowship Technologies is excited about this new level of partnership with Olan Mills and knows it will help churches put a face with the name of the individuals and families in Fellowship One.

More details about Olan Mills’ integration will be released soon. In the meantime, feel free to visit the Olan Mills website at http://ChurchDirectories.OlanMills.com/FellowshipOne/ .

Fellowship Technologies Gets a Reminder of What Is Important

acoppedge — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:19:00 GMT

Churches are in the “people business,” with the mandate to change lives. At times, that change can be both unexpected and dramatic. For those of us that work with churches, it can be easy to lapse into the “just business” mentality of our day-to-day work. We can lose sight of what is truly important, and of how deeply individual lives can be touched by what we do. Fellowship Technologies got that reminder recently with an email about a young man named Anthony.

The staff at Fellowship Technologies received an email from Nola Sweet with Christ the Rock Community Church in Menasha, WI. She shared an amazing story about Anthony and how the church was able to prevent his suicide with the help of church staff and Fellowship One church management software. As she recalls, “Anthony came to a Saturday night service to pray before going through with a suicide plan. He gave Pastor Bill a note and asked him to read it later, and then he left.” Unfortunately for Bill Lenz, Senior Pastor at Christ the Rock, he had nothing to help him track down the young man. All he had to go on was an approximate age and the man’s first name found at the bottom of the letter. They were faced with the horror that they might not be able to find Anthony before it was too late. According to Lenz in his August 9th service at Christ the Rock, he and other staff members searched the church hoping Anthony had not left the premises. No one knew him, nor did they have any contact information. Their last hope of finding him was through their Fellowship One database. Logging into Fellowship One they typed in “Anthony,” then looked for the age range that matched the young man Pastor Bill had met that evening. They found a match and called the number. Miraculously, it was the right Anthony, and they were able to meet with him that evening and talk him out of his plan.

Sitting across from Anthony, Pastor Lenz found out why he had contemplated suicide. Anthony had always felt alone as a child. He had been sent to a military school at an early age and then joined the Army. During his time in Iraq he saw plenty of action, and did his best to place himself in danger. He wanted to die. Once he returned to the U.S., Anthony coordinated the steps to take his own life. He knew from his military experience that people tended to pray before they died, so he wanted to do the same. Anthony joined the service at Christ the Rock one evening in January of 2009, and quietly passed a folded note to Pastor Lenz before leaving the church. This was the first step in his plan to end his life. Little did Anthony know that God’s plan was already in effect. A few weeks earlier, he had visited Christ the Rock, and filled out a visitor’s card. That card was then passed to staff members who carefully added his information to Fellowship One in hopes that he would visit again. No one could have guessed that this little act of care and attention to detail would one day save his life. It was that card, those staff members entering his information into Fellowship One, and the quick thinking of Pastor Lenz that eventually brought Anthony out of his suicidal plans, and to his decision to accept Christ.

Fellowship Technologies is honored to have played even the smallest part in a story such as this. It is a reminder of how managing the details can lead to a life changed forever. Pastor Lenz said it best, “When we meet Christ, our lives change. That’s what we’re here for as a church, to introduce more and more people to the Savior and see their lives changed for eternity.”

Dynamic Church Roadshow is coming to you!

Administrator — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:57:00 GMT

We’re bringing a taste of the Dynamic Church Conference to you! We’re calling this special one-day mini-conference, the Dynamic Church Roadshow! While the Roadshow is just a small sample of the over 100 education opportunities available during our main user conference, it’s still packed with great Fellowship One education classes and best practices.

The DC Roadshow crew will hit the road this fall to California for the first two stops of what will eventually be a nationwide tour.

If you are a Fellowship One user, you don’t want to miss this unique, one-day, educational opportunity priced at just $99. For more details visit one of the following pages:

Add a Household and Address Verification Updated in Staging

FTEducationSvcs — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:02:00 GMT

We asked you to check out the new Add a Household and address verification features available in the Fellowship One staging environment—and you delivered! We have spent the last three weeks reviewing your comments and have taken every effort to identify and fix the issues associated with this process. We targeted the following five items as high priority issues that could delay the release of this crucial piece of functionality:

Apartment numbers were being dropped from Address Line 1 and/or Address Line 2.
When adding a new household, the Add Address form contained no default cursor location needed for rapid data entry.
When adding another individual, there was no default cursor location which is needed for rapid data entry.
The Add a Household screen showed "Church status" and "Church sub-status." This was reverted back to “Status” and “Sub-status” for documentation, reporting and admin setup purposes.
USPS acceptable city names were not being accepted. The acceptable city name was being changed to the major city name. Note: Several acceptable city names originally reported have been fixed, but some are still not being recognized by the address verification provider. Fellowship Technologies will continue working with the provider to identify and include additional city names in the provider’s database. The change from acceptable city name to major city name should not affect mail delivery. If you find this as an issue, please open a support ticket and include the acceptable city name AND the major city name it is being changed to so we can communicate it to the address verification provider.

We believe we have corrected these issues, but we urge you to go try it yourself and let us know how we have done by commenting below. Access the staging environment HERE and login using your Fellowship One credentials. Remember, the staging environment is just a "sandbox" with a copy of your data. Feel free to try out the features without fear of disrupting your church data. Our goal is to release the week of September 23, 2009.

9 Minute Messages During The Nines Conference

acoppedge — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:28:00 GMT

How do you get 75 influential and dynamic pastors, teachers and leading ministry-focused business leaders together for one day? The answer: give them 9 minutes each!

A brainstorm idea birthed by Todd Rhoades, Director of the Teaching Church Multiplier Project at Leadership Network, the Nines Conference began by asking those 75 leaders the question: “If you had nine minutes to talk one-on-one with thousands of church leaders, what is the one thing that you would tell them?”
The result is a free, online all day conference that starts at 9:09 AM on September 9th (9/9/2009) and runs continuously for roughly 9 hours. Naming the conference became abundantly clear, given the unique time in history when so many “9’s” ran together.

Todd explained the genesis of the event and how it will work, “With the way it grew, it will be like drinking from a fire hose,” he admits. “Each speaker gets to talk about anything they want; however, what’s compelling is that each one is speaking about what they're most passionate about and what they would tell church leaders in such a short amount of time.”

Each of the 75 presenters pre-recorded their nine-minute message and submitted them to the team at Leadership Network. In addition to the live back-to-back streaming of each nine minute message, the messages will all be made available for viewing after the conference. “We feel this much great content will be repurposed again and again,” said Rhoades. “These messages will be useful for staff meetings, personal motivation and training.”

There are no breaks throughout the day, but at the top and bottom of every hour there will be a live feed from Catalyst headquarters. Catalyst is a hugely popular leadership conference for churches that is based out of Atlanta and partners with Leadership Network.

The all-day online conference is completely free, but registration is required at the Nines Conference website. Attendees are encouraged to use Twitter and Facebook to update what they’re learning and use the hashtag “#thenines” to make it easy to connect with each other.

Experience Fellowship One Newsletter - August 2009

FTEducationSvcs — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:05:00 GMT

This month's newsletter contains exciting information about the Dynamic Church RoadShow coming to California this October. Also, learn about recent changes and what's coming next to Fellowship One.

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Fellowship One Release - v.1.7.4

FTEducationSvcs — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:16:00 GMT

Fellowship One version 1.7.4, released this morning contains the following:

Enhancements
Move Assignments now includes support for Activity Schedules and Breakout Groups! Check out the online help topic or watch the video (click Move Assignments in the video menu).
Corrected Issues	Issue Number
When adding Requirements or Individual Attributes, the date field has been corrected to allow for special charaters (like the slash or period characters). Additionally, the 10-key pad can be used to enter the date.	090706-000011

Experience Fellowship One Newsletter

FTEducationSvcs — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:00:00 GMT

You don't want to miss this month's newsletter! Learn about changes to Add New Household, Going Digital with Fellowship One and our new daily tips on Twitter.

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Changes to Add New HH + Address Cleansing is back!

CurtisHarris — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT

We pulled the address cleansing feature a few months ago to make it more robust; the dev team really knocked it out of the park! In the video below I walk through one scenario just to give you an idea of what is coming, but in a nutshell the process has become very conversational and works through the many different scenarios that could apply when an address is incomplete. In addition, we have made some nice changes to the Add New Household function in an effort to improve your experience. As always, please let us know if we hit the mark or failed by commenting below. Thanks again!

Add New Household + Address Cleansing from Fellowship Technologies on Vimeo.

Fellowship One Release - v1.7.2

FTEducationSvcs — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:55:00 GMT

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Fellowship One version 1.7.2, released this morning corrected the following issues:

Corrected Issue	Issue Number
Group Email: If one of your delegates has an inactive user account, the name will no longer appear in the "From" field when creating emails	080808-000003
Group Email: Unlisted email addresses now display as Address Not Found in the Sent Items view	081205-000049
Contacts: Paging errors in View/Edit Contacts on the People tab have been resolved	080528-000083
Notes: If a Note Type has been deactivated, users will no longer be able to add notes to it	090522-000040
Super Checkin has been changed to obey Ministry security rights. You must have Ministry Write access to modify or delete a Super Checkin¹	090209-000118
Internet Explorer v.7 users can now access the Image Upload plug-in when mass uploading images	081029-000016

Mapping locations - a how to video

CurtisHarris — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:11:00 GMT

If you can get a list of addresses, you can easily dump those into a Google map. Once in the map you can quickly identify relative proximity, share the map with others, and even drop the map into your website; with all those choices, every time the address list is updated in any way, the map will automatically show the change. I personally use this to map our customers and share this with all of our staff. Watch my video to find out how you can do the same.

Map your people in Google from Fellowship Technologies on Vimeo.

Fellowship One Release - v1.7.1

FTEducationSvcs — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:10:00 GMT

Fellowship One version 1.7.1, released this morning corrected the following issues:

Corrected Issue	Issue Number
People List groups can now be deleted by clicking View Settings and then Delete this group.	090617-000107
Email addresses that contain white space characters before or after the address can now be saved (e.g., " "ace@fellowshiptech.com). The white space character(s) will be removed when saving the address.	090421-000024
Users can now view Parents or Children of group members in large groups (i.e., greater than 9,000 group members).	081218-000043
Users must have the Confidential Activity access right to use Query Builder to find people who have an assignment or attendance record to a confidential activity.¹	080501-000013
All users must have ministry Write access to delete participant assignments.¹	090420-000101
Statuses and sub statuses under the Deceased status group now all behave the same way (i.e., will not display in search results, Check-in, or report results unless specifically selected).	081111-000074
The Automatic tab in Household/Organization giving now displays sub funds.	090522-000072
The Twice A Month text in the Automatic tab in Household/Organization giving has been changed to Twice per Month (1st and 16th) to match the choices in WebLink's Online Giving	081120-000015
The calendars in the Giving search grid are now working in the FireFox browser.	090106-000107
Users must now select at least one filter from the contributions search grid before performing a search (i.e., Contributor, Attribute, Batch Name, Date Type, Fund, etc.).
The New Staff area on the Home tab only populates if the Is Staff check box is selected when creating the Fellowship One user account.	080720-000010

¹These two issues contain updates to security access rights.

Report Library Release - v1.0.3

FTEducationSvcs — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:05:00 GMT

Report Library v1.0.3 released this morning includes the following corrections:

Corrected Issue	Issue Number
Churches with International date formats (i.e., DD/MM/YYYY) can now use the "T" shortcut to populate today's date in report filters.	081125-000071
All calendar date fields have been updated to display a Sunday - Saturday calendar.	080808-000007

WebLink Release - v1.3.8

FTEducationSvcs — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:00:00 GMT

WebLink version 1.3.8, released this morning corrected the following issues:

Corrected Issue	Issue Number
Event Registration: WebLink users may now select a down payment option on the cutoff date.	090402-000080
Event Registration: the maximum character length for single line text fields and multi-line text areas has been changed to display as follows: Multi-line text area: the text Limit answer to X characters displays under the text area by default. The X is replaced by the number typed in the Limit answer to text field when creating the question. Single line text box: the text Limit answer to X characters displays only when a number lower than 4000 characters has been typed in the Limit answer to text field when creating the question.	090427-000030
Event Registration: When cloning old forms that contained a subject line in the Confirmation Message, the form is cloned with no subject line.	090206-000062
Event Registration: A Delete Confirmation Message link appears in the Web User panel on the form summary.	090420-000028
Event Registration: If you choose to change the order questions display by using the small up and down arrows, the changed order will display in the Question and Answer Summary.	090403-000055
Small Group Manager: The Post Attendance page has been changed to display the following text: Once attendance is posted for a given date you cannot add to or edit that attendance data.	081121-000051
Small Group Manager: Small Group leaders will now see the Deceased status (if applicable) when searching for individuals to add to the group.	080823-000001

Want to drop a calendar on your website?

CurtisHarris — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:09:00 GMT

Check out our "Ideas" site and sort by praise points, or just click here: http://tinyurl.com/ksvmgl; notice that the 2nd most requested idea is Calendaring/Resource management. I believe that two entirely separate ideas have been bundled together here:

Posting a calendar of church events on your website
Resource management - availability and the process to request limited resources (rooms, microphones, services)

Check out the video below as a way to achieve the 1st.

Add a calendar to your website from Fellowship Technologies on Vimeo.

A9005 THE Report You've Been Looking For

FTDeliverySvcs — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:55:00 GMT

Have you ever wondered what the alphanumeric code means to the right of the report name? Did you know that is has significant meaning?

When a report is created, it is given a five or six character alphanumeric code. Each character of the code has an important meaning. The first character is always a letter and it represents the report category. There are four different report categories:

Administration – Duplicates, Portal Users, Contact Efficiency
Giving – Contributions, Pledges, Receipts, Top Contributors
Ministry – Attendance, Participant Assignments, Staff Assignments, Jobs, WebLink Forms
People – Member Status, Contact Items, Attributes, Notes

The numbers that follow the report category help us to group similar reports together. Under each report category, there are multiple report groups. The report groups span over a range of numbers. For example report group A1030 – A1049 contain Administration reports specific to Individuals In Groups. At 1050, the next report group starts, which is Portal Users. By organizing the reports into groups, it allows all of the reports with similar subjects to be together and hopefully easier to search. If you find a report you like such as G1052 you can type in G105 in the search box and look at reports that are similar in design or function. Another example would be report M1400: Assignment Roster. If you like what this report is providing but need something a little difference you could just type in M140 or even M14. The fifth character of the code (if there is one) is always a letter. It can be E, P, or L.

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Fellowship One Release - v1.7.0

FTEducationSvcs — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:21:00 GMT

We are happy to introduce a new blog to coincide with weekly Fellowship One releases. The blog entries that contain a version number (i.e., v1.7.0) will display any changes in the version release. Version 1.7.0.30, released this morning, corrected the following issues:

Corrected Issue	Issue Number
When creating a WebLink Event Registration form, down payments must be larger than $0	090407-000062
Users must have Confidential Activity security access rights to view confidential activity involvement	090327-000066
Individual and Household photos can be enlarged by clicking the thumbnail image	090223-000151
When entering or editing individual records users can no longer choose a System status (i.e., New Checkin, New from Website or New from Small Group)	090402-000015
Users entering or editing Individual Attributes can now type "T" in an Individual Attribute date field to populate today's date	090303-000114
When searching for individuals a gender neutral avatar will only display if no gender has been selected for an individual	090325-000100
The Active Person (in the menu options on the left side of the screen) now displays a sub status if one exists (i.e., Member > Member by Letter)	090505-000046
When creating Contact Forms (Admin tab) users can now add Individual Attributes to the form	090508-000023
Users can now add email addresses that contain a hyphen prior to the @ sign (i.e., dynamic-church@fellowshiptech.com) when editing individual records	090506-000054
All active Fellowship One users display in the Staff/Pastor drop-down list when adding or editing a Requirement for an Individual	090506-000075
Activity Requirements no longer display in the Requirements widget on the individual record	090326-000047
Individual Attribute date fields no longer display an "Invalid Date Format" when entering or editing Attributes	090323-000046
The Fellowship One interface is no longer impacted when adding the "<" character to Notes	090402-000065
Future assignments that were one time occurrences are no longer displaying in the Involvement graph	090325-000102