Ben here. A slightly different blog post today.
As some of you would have experienced, we’ve been having speed issues here at elvanto from time to time. We know that a page that takes longer to load than it should is just plain annoying. The internet is getting faster, why should things be slow? Speed makes us more effective and efficient. If the software we use isn’t keeping up, then that’s bad.
Especially on Sunday’s and Tuesday’s (which we should rename to “Database-day”) when we have a lot of users online, certain tasks tend to slow down, especially for larger churches.
We’ve heard your comments and we wanted to let you know we are committed to improving the speed here at elvanto. Nothing is terribly wrong, we are just experiencing growing pains and it’s nothing we can’t handle.
We are looking at several areas at the moment…
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Happy Easter everyone! We hope you have a nice break over the long weekend (for those lucky enough to get one). We’ve got brand new updates leading you into the weekend which we think you’ll like very much.
Today we’ve made some big improvements to Service Attendance! Just for you… And here they are…
Built-in statistics
The first of the updates is the new built-in statistics we’ve added to Service Reporting. When you add individuals to a service as attended, the built-in statistics will automatically generate stats on:
- Total attendance
- Total families
- Total adults
- Total children
- Total for each of your demographics
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UPDATES 21ST MARCH: We’ve had fantastic feedback about the Member Directory but we have had even better suggestions. They were so good we had to pump them out quickly! So here we go:
- You can now exclude specific People Categories from the Member Directory (e.g: an inactive category can now be hidden)
- You can now exclude specific Demographics from the Member Directory (e.g: children for privacy reasons)
- You can exclude a person from the Member Directory (there’s a new button when editing a person’s profile on the left menu which you can click to exclude the person)
- You can choose to list all your people without having to search (this is great if you want people to browse and get to know people)
More updates will follow in future releases.
A much requested feature in the last few months has been the ability to have a Member (or Church) Directory for users to find contact details of others within the church. This is mainly for those users who do not have admin access. Today we release this feature!
When enabled, your users can search for a person or family.
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We’ve now released an update that allows your church people to edit more details about themselves from their ‘My Account’ page. This will help keep information more up to date and save you time.
You can now click a ‘My Account’ Layout tab within each People Category. This will allow you to choose what fields the people within this People Category can edit.
Just like you would edit the People Category Layout itself, you can click and drag which fields you want to allow your church people to edit. You can set it so different People Categories can allow different fields to be edited by the people within that category.
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Today we’ve released an update that gives you more power when it comes to archived people. The two areas are reporting on and contacting archived people.
Reporting on archived people
By default archived people are hidden from reports and people views. We have now added a filter field that allows you to include archived people in reports and people views where required.
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