Software Updates

Deduper

• Fix for duplicate keys not working on multiple queries attached to the Deduper application
• Fix when removing multiple emails at the same time

Calendar Builder

• You can now clear the cache of your calendar as a background request
• Improved support for the scheduling system to only schedule data update only once and to avoid redundant data downloads
• Added support to remove events relative to the current time
• Added support to hide hours of time from the calendar

Email Designer

• Added support to send emails relative to a date
  • You can now schedule emails relative to a date
  • You can send emails on the date, before the date, or after the date
  • You can choose the number of days to send the email on
  • Works with membership emails, reservation emails, and transactional emails
  • You can adjust the settings for the relative to the date option after creating the email
  • Added support for rows and split for each duplicate
  • Added support to view emails in preview to be sent on the selected date
  • Added backwards compatibility for emails to use the new functionality
• Added support for Membership Card Download Link
  • Just drag and drop the variable and the link shows up on your email
• Added a fix for grouping to use custom keys but still use the system record id if it’s available
• Added a fix to only send emails if PDF can be generated successfully
• Improved support for the scheduling system to only schedule data update only once and to avoid redundant data downloads
• Added support to sort email previews from A-Z or Z-A
• You can now see which emails are set to go out with a green icon and comment
• Improved UI to allow you to show membership card option for any type of email
• Added support to include links in the receipt grid
• Receipt grid only requires the Grid rows and header and footer are now optional
• Added support for large data logs and large previews to only show the first few rows
• Added support to view the enabled emails from the list of email templates

Online Template

• Added the option to upload footer and background image
• Improved the UI to handle different design types
• Fixed a bug with Google tracking
• Added support to save settings when settings are changed in the editor

Development

• Membership Card Designer
  • Added a fix for cached membership cards not working on the first click
  • Added support for special characters in the organization’s name
  • Added support for Name on card field
  • Add support for missing fields such as expiration date
  • Added support for Google Pay and Apple Wallet colors
  • Added a fix for centered content on the membership card initial design
  • Fixed issue with the company name to be organization name
  • Fixed issue with the family template and standard template
  • Fixed rotation of membership cards in preview
  • Improved usability of the card by fixing minor bugs
  • Fixed issue with Custom Field
  • Added HTML editor for content
  • Fixed random 404’s on template previews
  • Fixed a bug with card designs not being saved

Data Bridge

• Added a fix for merging key not working
• Added a fix for a timestamp for the last updated date
• Added support for static files
  • Excel and CSV files are now supported

System Improvements

• Added a fix to remove scheduled tasks when Altru is not available
• Improve ODATA monitoring service to not block accounts if Altru is offline
• Fixed bug with bounces complaints and delivery alerts
• Remove white spaces when creating team members
• Added support for multiple organizations tied to one individual to override from previous organizations

Calendar Builder

• Improved data download services to run queued jobs immediately instead of waiting for queue to empty

Email Designer

• Added support for the “&” symbol in the “subject” and “from name”
• Improved data download services to run queued jobs immediately instead of waiting for the queue to empty
• Fixed a minor bug with scheduled tasks not removing task after failed attempt to download data from a slow query
• Added support for receipt grid to be customized using grouped fields
  • Support for header, rows, and footer to be customizable
• Removed merging fields
• Added System Record ID mapping back into the available options

Online Template

• Published improved version of the online template editor
• Improved support for IE and Edge browser for GA tracking

Development

• Ticket Designer
  • Delete ticket designs
  • Clone a ticket design
  • Preview a ticket design
  • Support for any number of ticket designs
• Membership Card Designer
  • Delete membership card designs
  • Clone a membership card design
  • Preview a membership card design
  • Support for any number of membership card designs
• Merged in Membership Portal into Development

System Improvements

• Removed the “www” prefix when suggesting a domain name on DNS verification process
• Added a fix for trial accounts not to be able to use real-time data updates

Calendar Builder

• Added support for multi types of categories using the Event Registration option
• Added message to communicate on how categories are created for the calendar wizard

Email Designer

• Removed emails sent feature
• Added support for variables in the title of the email
• Added new email designer to create mobile-friendly emails
• Added support for backward compatibility of emails. All existing emails will continue to work without any modifications
• Fixed a bug with some eTickets not generating if no PID is set

Membership Portal

• Digital Membership Cards are now available
  • iOS, Android, and Web
• Added support for guest passes on constituents record
• Added support for guest passes on the membership record
• Added support digital cards preview and edit of landing page
• Added digital membership cards when you are logged in
• New membership card designer to create digital cards
• Added support for Apple Wallet, Google Pay, and Web
• New embed code for single sign-on service
• Fixed a minor bug when tickets are generated the application would hang
• Email enforcement based on membership id is now available
• A.I algorithm to determine the record owner is now being used for account creation
• Added support for SSO header and footer code
• Added error messages if third party cookies are not accepted by the browser. Applies for account creation, login, and reset the password.
• Fixed a bug with the visual editor not allowing you to edit SSO dialogs when in preview mode

System Improvements

• Daily backups of application settings are now saved and retained for 360 days
• Launched our new pricing structure
• Added support for refunds or canceled accounts on the dashboard
• Added support for accounts who pay via check to access billing area

Calendar Builder

• Fixed a minor bug with showing availability on sold-out events
• Fixed a minor bug with Go To Event in the past for date selection
• Removed timezone setting from Calendar share tab
• Added support for global timezone
• Added support to select if calendar links open in a new window or the same window
• Replaced input fields with fixed input for calendar selection on the data range type of calendar
• Added support for quantity attribute on calendar item availability. This adds better support to count for items sold through group sales
• Added support for caching system to cache links from the calendar if it’s a type of program from Altru
• Added new feature to allow you to clear the cache of all the links in the calendar

Email Designer

• Improved algorithm to detect when Altru is not online
• Fixed a minor bug when email templates are originally created they don’t have a value so we need to default out to “N/A”
• Added a new feature to support for merging fields. You can now use data from duplicate rows in your email
• Added better support for sending emails in parallel with each template
• Emails are now checked every minute instead of every five minutes
• Improve email sending functionality when Altru is offline or not able to respond back with data
• You now must setup a valid Ticket ID before you can enable the “eTicket generate” feature
• Fixed a bug when sending emails an “Email Sent” message is shown

Online Template & Checkout Flows

• Fixed a minor bug with checkout forms showing the “Please wait…” loading screen on form submissions.

Membership Portal

• Added a check to validate an email address is in the right format
• Fixed a bug when constituent profiles are being created when the setting was disabled
• Fixed a bug with barcodes not being able to get scanned in for the Membership Card (Web)
• Added support for CDN on the single sign-on service
• Fixed a bug when ticket downloads would hang for a long period of time
• Added support for line breaks on the PDF generated to do a line break for every four tickets.
• Improved reliability for the eTickets generated. We now only send out tickets if Altru returns back data.
• Fixed a bug with not being able to change the “Forgot Password” page
• Added support for user mapping based on the same id type
• Added feature to search by email address for a constituent preview in the SYNC tab

Data Bridge

• Fixed bug with zero value in google sheets not populating correctly
• Fixed bug with widget previews not working in production
• Added support for global timezone
• Fixed a bug with not being able to add team members to the Data Bridge application
• Added support to trim the label of long names for the preview

System Improvements

• Added the ability to set the timezone for the application. This setting is applicable for Calendars and the DataBridge and for any new timezones in the future
• Fixed a bug with team grid not displaying correctly if a team member has not created an account
• New security update
• Improved system logging for user actions

Data Bridge

• Moved over to use the API for better fault tolerance during high network usage
• Added support for the last time updated timestamp on Google Sheets

Deduper

• Added support to remove false positive records on the results page
  • Records with the same System Record Id are merged to one record-keeping only one data and discarding duplicate data
• Fixed a bug with columns not being sorted correctly in the overview page from ascending to descending order
• Added support to detach an email address
  • You can detach email for each constituent manually
• Deduping service is now scheduled automatically after new settings are detected
• Added better support to go through each record when viewing a list of records
• Added support to remove items from the list after they have been merged together only local records

Calendar Builder

• Added new calendar type of “Date Selection”
• Fixed a bug when checking for jQuery version is not available only applicable to some sites using Drupal
• Fixed a bug for calendars that only have one event and want to jump to that event automatically
• Fixed a bug with calendars reverting to default when Altru is offline

Email Designer

• Added support to generate barcodes automatically for eTickets when emails are sent out
• Added support to attach eTickets as a PDF to the email before it’s sent out
• Fixed a bug when Altru returns no data for a variable inside an email. We now set the value to be empty.
• Fixed a bug when the title of a note type is longer than 50 characters it gets trimmed to be exactly 50 characters.

Barcodes Scanner

• Fixed iPad UI usability issues
• Added support to show invalid barcode scanned value for continues scanning option
• Fixed language to reflect new domain for invalid password
• Fixed a minor bug with colors not being set on the mobile app
• Released new versions of the app
  • Android
  • iOS
  • Windows
• Fixed a bug with mobile clients not downloading new data when barcodes are validated

Online Template & Checkout Flows

• Released a CDN for all checkout flows using a static file system

Membership Portal

• Added support for primary address download
• Added new Integration Testing Tool – Helps narrow down issues with Access Control lists

Data Bridge

• Created a data bridge based on an ODATA query
  • Create, Delete, Share and auto-update data with Altru
• Connect Data Bridge with Google Sheets and Excel
  • Authentication credentials are generated per widget
• You can create widget types
  • Gauge
  • Google Sheet
  • Excel
• Restricted access to the data bridge based on subscription plan – Expert plan is required

Calendar Builder

• Added support for IE11 to render calendars
• Added support for sites with jQuery 1.9.0. or older
• Fixed a minor bug when duplicate keys are used on creation
• Added better support for windows to view reservation fields selection

Email Designer

• Fixed a minor bug with Emails not sending when Altru is not available
• Fixed a minor bug with multiple download complete dialogs showing

Barcodes Scanner

• Added new UI for administrator panel to work better with different resolutions
• Added new dialog for color pickers on the Admin portal
• Added new feature to view the valid barcode scanned in
• Added continuous scanning option for mobile, web and desktop apps
• Released a new version of the app
  • Android
  • Apple
  • Windows
• Fixed a minor bug with barcodes not validating with Altru
  • You can now see error messages in the sync activity

Online Template & Checkout Flows

• Dynamic checkout flows will only work if the Template script is embedded on the same page. (Fixes a bug with data binding)

System Improvements

• Added better support to parse Altru URL for credentials when setting up the connection with Altru
• Improved caching for old files on app.socialgoodsoftware.com

Calendar Builder

• Added support for calendar preview not to cache data. (Only applicable when building your calendar)
• Fixed a minor bug with calendars not opening links in a new tab when viewing in list mode
• Added support to remove links from events that have been sold out.
• Fixed a minor bug to keep selected colors as the focus color
• Fixed minor bug with Safari not supporting large calendars in local storage.
• Added support for custom CSS and JavaScript

Email Designer

• Worked on new drag and drop email builder

Deduper

• Added support for merge configurations based on name instead of ID.

Calendar Builder

• Added better support for Windows IE browser on admin UI
  • Fixed a minor bug with scroll bar hiding labels
  • Fixed a minor bug with icons not showing the right color
• Revised the “More” option in calendar to show in a bigger window. (320px)
• Fixed a minor bug with jQuery not being defined on the page.
• Fixed a minor bug with redirect links not working for event registration forms.
• Switched over calendars to use a micro service.
  • Improves loading speed for click events on program forms
  • Improves speed to render during high usage

Email Designer

• Fixed a minor bug with new email templates not being processed.

Checkout Flows

• Added support for Combo Tickets forms
• Added support to view activity log by the day

Online Template

• Simplified the UI to support just one JavaScript and CSS per page
• Moved the UI for preview URL to the preview tab
• Added support to view activity log by the day
• Removed ability to listen for ajax request and just execute once
• Fixed issue with data drops on analytics – 1/29/2020

Membership Portal

• Added single sign on service

Barcode Scanner

• Fixed bug with browser not rendering app preview on browser
• Small tweaks on the UI to simplify the preview screen

Team Section

• Fixed a bug with dates not being shown as “N/A” if not available

System Improvements

• Fixed the 524 issue some users were reporting
• Fixed issue with IE forcing a logout on sessions