News about kOOL - the church tool http://www.churchtool.org/ Read all the latest news about kOOL - the church tool en News about kOOL - the church tool http://www.churchtool.org/EXT:tt_news/ext_icon.gif http://www.churchtool.org/ Read all the latest news about kOOL - the church tool TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:37:51 +0200 New release R32 http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/new-release-r31.html This is mainly a maintenance release with bugfixes and some minor new features. This release brings a few new features like a new color picker, a slimmer alternative to overlib, a new export for groups and an interaction between rota teams and the group module.

Also many bugfixes have made it into this release, so be sure to update your kOOL installation.

 

Check the release notes for more information about the changes.

]]> renzo@churchtool.org Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:37:51 +0200 New release R31 http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/new-release-r31-1.html This new release brings some interesting new features, bugfixes and a new iconset. The main new features are the possibility to hide addresses, the new context sensitive help directing the user to the online documentation, the possibility to apply one value to all entries when multiediting them and the new iconset.

This release also introduces a new XML-GET interface to retrieve data from kOOL through an encrypted GET call to get.php. Currently only a small set of data can be retrieved - this will grow as demands arise.

Then of course many bugs have been fixed and some speed optimizations also made it into this release.

 

Check the release notes for more information about the changes.

]]> renzo@churchtool.org Wed, 14 May 2008 11:47:00 +0200 New release R30 with Dutch as new language http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/new-release-r30-with-dutch-as-new-language-1.html The biggest change in this release might be the new language: Dutch. But some critical bugfixes make it a worthwhile update also for non-Dutch users. Thanks a lot to Johan van der Lingen for the translation of the whole kOOL UI to Dutch. He has already translated most of the documentation as well.

A new API for maps plugins has been added. So check the map plugins.

Many bugs have been fixed in this release, so every admin is encouraged to update to this new release. Check the release notes for more information about the changes.

]]> Webnews renzo@churchtool.org Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:58:00 +0100 Bugfix release R29a: Please update http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/bugfix-release-r29a-please-update.html This bugfix release fixes some critical bugs in R29. An update is very much recommended. renzo@churchtool.org Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:08:00 +0100 New release R29 http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/new-release-r29.html The newest release of kOOL R29 is online. Quite a lot of changes have gone into this release. The main goals where to fully localise the kOOL GUI for English and German and lay the foundation for more languages. A new module "Donations" and a new PDF export feature for addresses also made it into this release. Read more in the release notes.

]]> Webnews renzo@churchtool.org Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:47:00 +0100 Public subversion repository http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/public-subversion-repository.html The kOOL source is now available from a public subversion repository As of today, every change in the code will be commited to the public subversion repository on https://svn.churchtool.org. You are welcome to update your local copy of kOOL to test the newest features and report any bugs you may find.

]]> renzo@churchtool.org Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:48:00 +0100 English Translation http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/english-translation.html kOOL and its documentation are currently beeing translated to English. Paul Houghton has volunteered to translate kOOL into English. The documentation and the source of the modules addresses, events and admin have already been finished as well as the documentation General Concepts.

]]> Webnews renzo@churchtool.org Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:43:51 +0100 New kOOL release R28 http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/new-kool-release-r28.html A new kOOL release is online, Release 28, which brings some new features and improvements. The installation of kOOL has been improved a lot. It should now be a lot easier and more stable to install kOOL on a new server.

Check out the adapted installation instructions.

 

- Better sorting of groups, smallgroups and rota teams

- Filling out the forms has become easier

- PDF export of yearly calendar

- Filter for groups applies role to subgroups as well

- Fill pages with addresses when printing labels

]]> Webnews renzo@churchtool.org Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:17:00 +0100 New maintenance release R27b http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/new-maintenance-release-r27b.html New release with mainly bugfixes and usability issues solved. This new release fixes many important bugs, so an update is strongly recommended. Some minor improvements have been added as well.

A new and more flexible concept for the display of lists has been added. As a pilot project it has been added for the display of events and rota teams.

]]> Webnews renzo@churchtool.org Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:36:00 +0200 Bugfix release R27a http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/bugfix-release-r27a.html A new release is ready for download. It fixes some important bugs and adds a few new features. You are strongly encouraged to update to this release to get rid of some nasty bugs.

New features include filters for smallgroup data and group datafields and a new form field to select people from the address database in a form.

]]> Webnews renzo@churchtool.org Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:40:00 +0200