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Platform - December 2014

 

Part 1: Enhancements, UI Changes and Notable Bug Fixes

Issue ID: 1922 Type: Enhancement Component: Advance Search
DESCRIPTION: A date picker is now available in the advanced search tool for date values.

Issue ID: 1971 Type: Enhancement Component: Copy Tool
DESCRIPTION: The Copy dialogue has been improved to make it more clear to the end user if they are able to copy specific sub pages.

Issue ID: 1986 Type: Enhancement Component: Delete Tool
DESCRIPTION: Tasks associated with a record that is being deleted will now be deleted along with that record.

Issue ID: 2009 Type: Enhancement Component: Grid View
DESCRIPTION: It is now possible to manipulate the order of columns in a grid/view by dragging a column to the right or left and dropping it in a new position.

Issue ID: 1942 Type: Enhancement Component: New Message
DESCRIPTION: Attachments in messages will now have the friendly name of the file rather than the ID number of the file.

Issue ID: 2032 Type: Enhancement Component: New Message
DESCRIPTION: A time picker was added to the new message dialogue under start date/time on the Options page.

Issue ID: 1774 Type: Enhancement Component: Reports
DESCRIPTION: It is now possible to run a "selected" report from an open record and the results will be about that record.

Issue ID: 595 Type: Enhancement Component: System Setup
DESCRIPTION: Deprecated sub pages were removed from the Messages page. The "To Contacts" sub page was renamed to "Recipients".  A new "All Recipients" page was added under Communications.

Issue ID: 2088 Type: Enhancement Component: Tools
DESCRIPTION: The Platform will always pass an explicit Selection ID to tools rather than passing -1 for the "current/unsaved selection" as it did in the past.

Issue ID: 1924 Type: Enhancement/MP1 Feature Component: Assign Tool
DESCRIPTION: It is now possible to mass assign passwords to user accounts in MP2 as it was in MP1.

Issue ID: 2053 Type: Enhancement/MP1 Feature Component: Copy Tool
DESCRIPTION: It is now possible to copy a security role and all page and sub page rights are copied with that security role.

Issue ID: 610 Type: Enhancement/MP1 Feature Component: Grid View
DESCRIPTION: Grids will now display the sum total for money and integer columns in MP2 as they did in MP1.

Issue ID: 1976 Type: Enhancement/MP1 Feature Component: New Task
DESCRIPTION: It is now possible to select multiple records and assign the same task to each record as it was in MP1.

Issue ID: 1919 Type: Enhancement/MP1 Feature Component: Open Record Dialogue
DESCRIPTION: It is now possible to change the default image associated with a record to another image on that record from the open record on any page.

Issue ID: 1974 Type: Enhancement/MP1 Feature Component: Pages
DESCRIPTION: Clicking refresh will now load in selections created by tools and reports.

Issue ID: 1925 Type: Enhancement/MP1 Feature Component: Pages
DESCRIPTION: Search using quotes will return precise results as it did in MP1

Issue ID: 2002 Type: Enhancement/MP1 Feature Component: Sub Pages
DESCRIPTION: The "Available Rooms" view on the Rooms pick list page now correctly suppresses rooms not available during that event as it did in MP1.

Issue ID: 1944 Type: Enhancement/MP1 Feature Component: Workflow
DESCRIPTION: Corrected the logic determining which task owner and email recipient would be used when multiple options are set in a process step.

Issue ID: 1931 Type: Interface "UI" Change Component: Advance Search
DESCRIPTION: Added validation to the advanced search tool if a user attempted to save the new page view without a title.

Issue ID: 1998 Type: Interface "UI" Change Component: Advance Search
DESCRIPTION: Removed the "User Group" option from the Advanced Search tool when launched from a sub page. Only page views can be assigned to User Groups.

Issue ID: 2097 Type: Interface "UI" Change Component: Delete Tool
DESCRIPTION: Changed the button text on the Delete tool to "Delete" from "OK".

Issue ID: 2061 Type: Interface "UI" Change Component: New Message
DESCRIPTION: Moved the communication templates dropdown in line with snippets and data fields in the new message dialogue.

Issue ID: 2101 Type: Interface "UI" Change Component: Sub Pages
DESCRIPTION: The "tools" menu will not appear in sub pages.  It is being removed pending future enhancements.

Issue ID: 2143 Type: Interface "UI" Change Component: Navigation
DESCRIPTION: Page-specific icons will be added for the majority of pages in MinistryPlatform

Issue ID: 737 Type: Bug Fix Component: API
DESCRIPTION: It is no longer necessary that a portal visitor have a user account in MinistryPlatform to use an auto login URL.

Issue ID: 1932 Type: Bug Fix Component: Copy Tool
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an issue whereby the start and end times were not preserved for events when creating a recurring series with the copy dialogue.

Issue ID: 1940 Type: Bug Fix Component: New Message
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an issue with the new message tool so that the file extension is included when attaching a file.

Issue ID: 2085 Type: Bug Fix Component: Service Manager
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an error in the service manager which might cause it to stop sending emails generated by a message if it encountered an invalid email address

Issue ID: 2050 Type: Bug Fix Component: Workflow
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an issue that prevented some workflow processes steps from sending emails.

Part 2: Other Bug Fixes

Issue ID: 1848 Type: Bug Fix Component: Advance Search
DESCRIPTION: Prevented an error when editing a page view created by the advanced search when custom SQL code was present.

Issue ID: 2033 Type: Bug Fix Component: Advance Search
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an issue with Advanced Search and loading the user group drop-down.

Issue ID: 1810 Type: Bug Fix Component: Advance Search
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an issue with the GetDate() function and the SQL View of the Advanced Search

Issue ID: 2043 Type: Bug Fix Component: API
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an error that would result when attempting to impersonate a contact on the portal if that contact did not already have a user record in MinistryPlatform.

Issue ID: 2034 Type: Bug Fix Component: Calendar View
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an issue in the Calendar view whereby times were not consistent with the value on the record.

Issue ID: 1957 Type: Bug Fix Component: Copy Tool
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an issue that would prevent users from copying certain records.

Issue ID: 2001 Type: Bug Fix Component: Home Page
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an issue deleting messages from my messages if a user did not have sufficient rights.

Issue ID: 1997 Type: Bug Fix Component: New Message
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an issue with the new message tool and attaching some files.

Issue ID: 1917 Type: Bug Fix Component: New Message
DESCRIPTION: The "Reply To" value is now saved when a draft is saved.

Issue ID: 1918 Type: Bug Fix Component: New Message
DESCRIPTION: Start dates from a template will not be applied to new messages.

Issue ID: 1800 Type: Bug Fix Component: Open Record Dialogue
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an issue whereby the "submit" or "approve" buttons might not disappear from the UI after completing the action from an open record.

Issue ID: 2045 Type: Bug Fix Component: Quick Add
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an issue in Quick Add's review page where sub page data was concerned.

Issue ID: 2083 Type: Bug Fix Component: Selections
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an issue if a selection was deleted from the home page "my selection" and the user returned to that page with that selection still set in memory.

Issue ID: 1927 Type: Bug Fix Component: Sub Pages
DESCRIPTION: Prevented an error when attempting to create a new contact record from the primary family sub page of an open contact record.

Issue ID: 2073 Type: Bug Fix Component: Sub Pages
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an issue with the "add" dialogue on some sub pages for users without rights to the target page.  Example: adding attributes to contacts without read rights to the attributes page.

Issue ID: 2099 Type: Bug Fix Component: Sub Pages
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an issue with the "add" dialogue when using the "select all" option.  The new selection might not load into the dialogue.

Issue ID: 2004 Type: Bug Fix Component: System Setup
DESCRIPTION: A change was made to prevent an error with record security on the users sub page.

Issue ID: 2005 Type: Bug Fix Component: System Setup
DESCRIPTION: A change was made to prevent an error with record security on the user groups sub page.

Issue ID: 1947 Type: Bug Fix Component: View Record Dialogue
DESCRIPTION: Corrected an issue with the "view record" dialogue used by the Calendar and Gantt views so that previous and next buttons work.

Issue ID: 1923 Type: Bug Fix Component: Workflow
DESCRIPTION: Prevented an error when setting the "send email to" value of the process steps sub page.