Fresh Vine Status Updates

We are continuing in our preparations for an upcoming relaunching of our services. Part of this process has involved us streamlining all of our processes and structures. Tonight we streamlined how our databases are structured.

This update went smoothly and lasted about 5 minutes. All our clients were successfully streamlined and there was only 5 minutes of time where the leadership and public sites would have been in maintenance mode. During this time all regular content would have been accessible to your users via podcast, email, and embedded media.

There will be several more updates coming over  the next 6 weeks to bring many new levels of service and experience to our clients. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to serve all of you with the best church management system around.

This update has been a long time coming. A fresh look has been given to nearly every page within the site and there where some sizable updates as well. The email system is more useful with it’s single opt-in model. Making sure that your settings are correctly configured is now even easier with our unified settings page.

From here forward our intentions are to release new versions every 4-6 weeks. The next release will be version 1.7 near the New Year.

Features

Major Features:

• Updated Member Profile Pages
  • These pages have been completely retooled to provide information more clearly and quickly
  • Added an member Email archive page to see what messages they’ve received and which ones they have sent
• Email System Migrated to a single opt-in approach
  • New Composition and Template design
  • Rosters now show broken email addresses
  • New email footer includes church addresses, phone, and email management links
• Church Settings Page (new)
  • Format and set your church address and hours
  • Determine who is a primary contact between your church and nineteen05
  • Upload a logo to use within the system

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  Quick View – Member Profiles (new)

  • Hover over a member name with a light blue underline to see member details
  • Instantly access to link to view or edit their member profile
  • Instantly download their address card
• Update/Closed Screens
  • New screens will be displayed whenever your site is deactivated or while updates are being processed.
  • Screens will immediately disappear when the update completes successfully or once late payments are received.
• New Client Management system (internal)
  • Mostly an internal development but this system will stream-line our update system, version management, and communication with our customers
  • You’ll now receive emails when the software is updated with details about the update.

Minor Features:

• Redesigned User profile pages, now includes options to manage your nineteen05 email subscriptions and shows you which automatic notifications you will receive from nineteen05
• Event pages now include a ‘remove’ button
• Added a school grade option to the member profiles (works for k-12 and also includes college and graduate levels)
• Updated subscription management page for your members to more easily manage the email lists they are subscribed to

Other Fixes:

• Event Tracking has been renamed Event Follow-up
• Event pages now include a ‘remove’ button that was accidentally removed in a previous version.
• Bug fixed in the address synchronization for family members (Home Addresses only)
• Changed the giving method ‘Online’ to now read ‘Card’

This version has been in Beta release for a couple months and has proven stable. Therefore we are marking it released.

Major Features:

• Brand new landing page – General Dashboard
  • Includes the same access styling as before
  • Get direct links to the areas of the site you use most
  • Quick search for members from the home page
  • Helpful graphs illustrate the realities of your church
  • New graph – Ages in your church
• Podcast with Feed Burner
  • Feed Burner is a great visitor tracking tool for your podcast, you can now set your play-list’s burned URL on the play-list management page.

Minor Features:

• Graphs throughout the site now print as expected
• New styling when printing a page should improve usability of the site, and reports

Other Fixes:

• The create page system has a few bugs fixed, text item now spans full width, and menu now builds correctly.
• Fixed a broken link on public websites which disabled jQuery UI from loading correctly
• Updated a script that caused some page functionality to not exist

Roster you can custom sort, and export from

The main portion of this update involves a preliminary update to the main dashboard page, and an update to the member lists within the site.

Major Feature:

• Member rosters have been updated to a new format built to increase usability
  • On list filtering by many different and combination options.
  • Export spread sheets based on the current list filtering.
  • Batch actions for selected or all members on the group roster.
• Email Subscription management page got a make over
  • You can now also subscribe to your personal calendar feeds from this page
    • A feed holds all public church events
    • One holds all your events (public and private) for the church and groups you are in
    • There are also feeds for each individual group

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Lots of new features in this release. The member roster and group member rosters got a major face lift, as did the subscription management page (including access to a number of personal ical feeds).

Details coming with the post on the release.

We are getting really excited as we inch closer and closer to the version 1.7 update!

In this version the most obvious of the updates are cosmetic and usability improvements. As you navigate around the site you will notice improvements to the log in screen as well as the events module.

Major Changes

• Updated log in page design and usability
• Updated the event attendance tracking page for improved usability

Minor Changes

• Some clients experienced a bug not allowing them to insert images into the text editor
• Some clients experienced a bug not allowing user accounts to be approved

There are both some minor and major changes from version 1.6.1.1 to version 1.6.2

The best way to think about this update is major under the hood work. There isn’t a lot of noticeable interface changes, or new/improved features. What there is, however, are a whole slew of changes designed to streamline and integrate the system further together. This will mean that your overall experience with the leading Integrated Church Solution will be even better.

There are many more under the hood changes that will make your website and the software run more smoothly. You’ll notice the biggest update to the multi-media web module that displays the podcast. There have been some major usability updates allowing navigation of the podcast list, selecting a skin from a list of 10+.

The Major Changes

• Updated Multimedia Play list web module
  • Includes Unique item links
  • Paginated Play List
  • Social Media sharing options
  • Embed able media content
• Improved main page to help users get where they want to go
• New log in page design
• New Soft Data type – Multi-Select
• Rosters now include the option to show member photos

The Minor Changes

• Member Relationships have an improved management interface
• Giving export speed improvement.
• User Management layout improvements
• Links in web content now dynamically update for your mapped domain and for local web pages
  • Change a page’s permalink and links to it on your website update
• Now can quick search member with any parts of names
• Can now upload new thumbnails to audio and video media items
• Renamed the Media Collections to Playlists

This release is coming very quickly after v1.6.1 (less than 3 weeks). There are only a few minor updates for this release in addition to a major restructuring effort to streamline software updates and patch releases.

Our clients will not really notice any difference in the working or functionality of their site as we fully implement v1.6.2 but will notice a system that has an increased updatability for our programing staff.

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There are several minor improvements in version 1.6.1 from 1.6.

The best way to think about this update is major under the hood work. There isn’t a lot of noticeable interface changes, or new/improved features. What there is, however, are a whole slew of changes designed to streamline and integrate the system further together. This will mean that your overall experience with the leading Integrated Church Solution will be even better.

The Changes

• Member Search revamped for improved speed, and added Avatars to the results
• Member Roster was revamped for improved speed
• Instant Address Exporting for members (via Vcard format)
• Email system updated for faster sending, and wider emails (from 550px to 700px)
• Several database queries were re-written for speed improvements

Change Log:

• Corrected a glitch that was causing some website pages to not render correctly
• Corrected a glitch that caused all the giving data saved to not appear in the
• Improved the Member Search speed and the way indexing takes place
• Widened the Email system from 550 pixels to 700 pixels wide
• Consolidation of Data tables removed 12 tables, resulting in increased speed and performance
• Reworking of Giving Overview page to include all data entered (bug fix)

We are working away at the upcoming release of version 1.6.1 of Nineteen05. With all this going on we wanted to give you a sneak peak at a little bit of what is coming  up.

• Export Member Profiles as Contacts to use in Outlook/Mail/Entourage
• Weekend Service Tracking
• Multi-site Support integrated with Services, and Giving
• Retooled Member Search to improve speed
• Many small improvements within the existing solution

And much more! We are working very diligently at getting this update done and published. We look forward to hearing your feedback in the weeks to come.