The release we hope you won't notice...!

We've been doing some important work in recent weeks to upgrade the entire technology platform on which Insight runs (for those of you who are interested - we've migrated the codebase to ASP.NET 4.0).

We released this update this morning (Tuesday 15th May 2012).

What will be the immediate impact?

Prior to release, we've put the migrated platform through extensive testing and believe you won't even notice the change. We haven't changed any Insight features or the way your site operates. If you do notice anything on your site which isn't behaving as it did previously, please let us know straight away.

So why have we done this?

Using the latest technology means that we benefit from the most up to date security features and operating system patches that Microsoft provide.

In addition, the new platform is a springboard from which we can accelerate development to make Insight even better - more news on some exciting developments very soon!

As always, if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us.

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Release Notes - 23rd March 2012

A minor patch release to deal with some reported bugs. As always, if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us.

For non logged-in users, there was some odd behavior with forum threads which contained more than 20 messages. This is fixed now.
The headers on the grid on the "My Bookings" page are no longer hardcoded white so these can be controlled by Themes.
Sign up sheets which have been deleted now return status 404.
We've fixed a bug which meant that for very large order batches in the shop the PDF print-out of the orders didn't work.
When copying digital content from one item to another, there was a bug which meant that the single price column always displayed on the copied item, even if it had no paid-for content. This has been fixed.
Pasting content into the article editor from Word in the Firefox browser would sometimes result in images being embedded directly in the source of the article which causes poor performance for those articles. We now check for this and prevent these articles being saved with a warning.
It was possible to create Gift Aid declarations on users which were inconsistent (e.g. they applied to neither past nor future donations). User-level declarations must now at least apply to future donations.
The list of payment imports (Reports > Financial Reports) is now paged.
We've made some improvements to performance when checking for conflicts in Resource bookings.
There was an error when trying to register in payment groups for which the payment processor was set to "Offline". This is fixed now.
...and finally... have you ever experienced that annoying moment where you log into the Web Office, and the first thing you click makes your whole browser tab disappear? So have we. We believe we've found and fixed the root cause of that, so it should never happen again!

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Release Notes - 17th February 2012

Our latest round of updates brings you some improvements to resource booking. As always, if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us.

Update all pending resources in a single step

When a request is submitted for a series of bookings, it was previously extremely laborious to have to go through and approve the request for every single booking.

We've added two new tasks to the "Series" tab to allow you to either Confirm or Reject the whole series in one go.

Extend a series of resource bookings

When your booking series comes to an end, you previously had to create a new booking for the same resources.

We've added another task to the "Series" tab which enables you to extend a series of bookings as long as you like.

Other Features and Bug Fixes

For those of you who like to write your own CSS for advanced styling, we've added a field to all module settings to allow you to specify your own ID for the module.
In Single Page Payment Group layouts you can now configure the Card Details module to display vertically (address below card details).
The Article module in Single Page Payment Group layouts can now display an article from a group note. All articles displayed in this way must be approved by Endis Support.
The "My Merges" screen is now paged to make the list more manageable when it gets long.
When adding items to the mailing history via the "Add Communications Entry" task, any contents entered weren't visible. This has been fixed.
A bug meant that in some scenarios it wasn't possible to build queries in the Query Wizard in Internet Explorer. While we were working on this, we made it work for Chrome too.
When querying for Organizations, you can now query based on "Preferred Address"
When registered users place an order in the shop, they have the option of selecting the address from their user record, or from previously used addresses. Incomplete addresses were ignored. We've changed this, so that when no other address is available, the components of the incomplete address are used to populate the address fields. A complete address must still be entered before proceeding through the checkout.
When entering card details, users experienced an error if they entered a space after their name. This has been fixed.
We've optimized the user merge process so that merges should complete considerably quicker.
If an article or media item was deleted, users would get errors if they visited pages that referenced the deleted items. We've changed this behavior so that pages will load correctly.
When privacy settings for "Connections" were hidden on the registration form, this resulted in unnecessarily restrictive settings being applied to site members and the public. This has been fixed.

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Release Notes - January 17th, 2012

Our first release of 2012 brings some great extensions to Tagging, New Mini Layout Components as well as several improvements to the Store. As always, if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us.

More Tagging

Up until now tagging has been available on audio/video recordings, articles and events. You can now tag the full range of media items, including images and document files.

We have also extended the range of lists and feeds that you can now filter based on their tags to include the following:

Calendar (events list) component

Media list component

Media XML Feed

Article list component

New mini-layout components for the media list

Mini-layouts give you a fine grained level of control over the look of your layout components.

We've added four new components that are available in the media list component:

Bible reference

Download count

Length (duration) of the recording

Download link, allowing website visitors to download the file rather than play in site.

Improvements to the Group Members tab

For those of you with hundreds or even thousands of members, it can often take a few clicks to find who you're looking for on the Members tab in a group.

We've had a simple name filter to the top of this tab to help you more quickly find who you need to. The existing browsing functionality of the tab is unchanged - so if you've got nice small groups, or you just liked it the way it was, then you're in luck!

Creating new users in the user picker

Often admins need to search for a site member to add to a group or a rota and then find that the person they are searching for doesn't yet exist in the database. Up until now, this has meant dropping what you are doing in order to create the user, before you can go back and add them.

We've now made it possible to create new users directly from the user picker pop-up so that your flow of work isn't interrupted. Look out for the "Create and select a new user" task.

Store Enhancements

Removal of the 'donation' item type

The 'donation' item type in the store provided a means through which sites could request donations from customers at the checkout stage - but many have found this confusing. To simplify things, we have added some flexible additional settings that are available on all store items to provide the functionality that was originally only available by designating an item as a donation.

1. When to take payment.

On request. This was the standard behavior for physically shipped items. Payment is taken when the items are shipped.

On order placement. The standard behavior for digital items and donations. Payment is taken as soon as the checkout process is complete so that digital content could be downloaded straight away.

2. Whether shipping is required.
Digital items or donations don't require any physical products to be sent to the customer and so don't need shipping nor therefore a delivery address to be entered or a delivery method selected. Items that do not require shipping will also not be counted when calculating delivery costs.

3. Show on cart page.
When this is selected, the item will appear on the trolley page as an option in addition to the items selected so that your customers have one last chance to select them.

4. Overridden price label.
Normally prices for physical items appear with the designation "price" - but for a donation you might want to say "amount" or "donation", for example.

Previously, these options were selected correctly for you, depending on whether the item was physical, digital or a donation. Rather than force you to now set them manually every time you create a new item, we've put three "Add a new..." tasks on the Items tab - for physical, digital and donation items. These will preselect all the normal defaults for you - but of course you can change these as you wish for your special cases.

For those of you who use batch order processing, items that do not require shipping can now be picked up and paid for during the batch order process.

5. Editing of shop delivery charges

In recent months we've made it possible for you to cancel individual items from orders, but what you couldn't do was to edit the delivery charge (which may have changed substantially if significant items had been removed from the order - or the order cancelled altogether).

We've closed this gap now - and you can now edit the delivery charge manually by clicking the usual pencil icon next to the delivery charge on the order screen.

6. Canceling the entire order will now also cancel the delivery charge.

Other Store Fixes

1. In the event of a card failure when taking payment for a store order, the order status was inadvertently replaced with the payment processor's error message. This has been fixed.

2. If a delivery method was deleted, any orders that had previously been made using that delivery method erroneously showed that they had an amount outstanding. This is now fixed.

3. We have now reinstated the "Minimum spend" setting when you set up your own payment processor.

This allows you to ensure that any card processing charges that you incur are covered by the value of any transactions in the shop. Note that this minimum applies to each card transaction and if the customer selects a mixture of "take payment on order placement" and "take payment on request" items then these will be split across two transactions - with the minimum applying to each.

4. Logged in users going through the store checkout weren't asked for an address if their user record contained a partial address. We now force everyone to fill in any address details that are required that we don't already have.

5. If digital products had paid-for files which were "available separately" but the paid-for file was then removed, the "Separate Price" column still appeared (albeit blank) on the item track listing. We've fixed this so that the "available separately" option is correctly removed when there are no paid-for files.

6. In rare cases, refund amounts were calculated very slightly incorrectly for order lines that had discounts applied. This has been corrected.

Other Features and Bug Fixes

1. In popular forums where the thread list extended to multiple pages, there was a problem navigating back to the first page after navigating to subsequent pages. This is fixed now.

2. We've fixed the bug which meant that you couldn't produce a printable version of some large rotas.

3. If you tried to access a forum directly which required login (e.g. by following a link in an email) you'd get an error. This is fixed.

4. We've fixed an issue whereby after copying a payment group, the group tree didn't always update to allow you to see your new group.

5. A document file uploaded in the Web Office can have a maximum size of 50MB. However, a server configuration issue meant that there were problems uploading any files above approximately 29MB. This is now fixed and files up to 50MB can now be successfully uploaded.

6. When reaching a 'Page not Found' error page (e.g. because a URL was typed incorrectly or a page was deleted) we now correctly return the 404 status code to the web browser.

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Release Notes - 5 October 2011

In preparation of some new and exciting features coming in the very near future, we have released a few updates for the Insight platform. The most recent release includes updates to the Map and Directory components, Gift Aid Reclaim Reports, Layouts and fixes for a range of minor bugs. As always, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Map and Directory Updates
Our Map and Directory components have been updated to use the most recent version of the Google Maps API. This will speed up page loading times as well as improve general directory responsiveness.

We have also changed our provider for changing addresses into coordinates to shorten the time this can take. This will speed up directory searching and the placing of map pins.

Changes to Gift Aid Reclaim Assignment Report
Until this release, only a single format of the Gift Aid Reclaim Assignment Report has been available. We have extended this to now allow for all formats and aggregation to be available in our other assignment reports.

Other Features and Bug Fixes

Popular shops may have noticed the occasional duplication of shop order numbers. This should be a thing of the past.

In the assignment option report, we now correctly allocate assignments across relevant options, even if the receivable is zero value.

The user who saves a specific payment group registration will now be reported more accurately.

Payment Group Draft Registrations will now work correctly when an address is required.

The Ratings Mini-Layout component now shows the link text, even when the rating is not available.

It is now possible to delete emails and stop them from sending on schedule.

Moving a shop order to the Order Archive, and sending confirmation emails, should no longer present the occasional error.

Endis Insight Support, 05/10/2011

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