Fresh Vine Status Updates

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

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.