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 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:32:00 +0200 New release R39a http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/new-release-r39a.html Bugfix release with some minor improvements. This release fixes some ugly bugs from R39, so an update is recommended. It also brings some new features, mainly usabilty issues and some more settings. Read more in the release notes.

]]> renzo@churchtool.org Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:30:00 +0200 New tutorial how to install LaTeX (by Christoph Fischer) http://www.churchtool.org/download/instructions/latex.html As LaTeX is not installed on all hosting servers by default you might have to install it in your shared hosting. Christoph Fischer has written an excellent tutorial about how to do this for kOOL. renzo@churchtool.org Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:45:00 +0200 New release R39 http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/new-release-r39.html Improved speed and some bugfixes. With this release the typical processing time of kOOL has been reduced to about 20% compared to R38.

Besides that mainly bugfixes went into this release.

» Read the release notes for details

]]> renzo@churchtool.org Fri, 28 May 2010 12:00:00 +0200 New release R38 http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/new-release-r38.html New tracking module, removed old module news and many usability improvements. This release brings a new module tracking to track the attendance of your members in courses, small groups etc.

The general usability of kOOL has been improved in many different places with this release. New filters have been added to the people module.

The old news module has been removed with this release. Newsletters should now be managed with groups and the news for the front page are now managed in the admin module. Read the update instructions before updating!

» Read the release notes for details

]]> renzo@churchtool.org Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:02:00 +0100 Bugfix Release R37a http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/bugfix-release-r37a.html This release fixes several bugs that were introduced with the new calendar for R37. Display problems in Internet Explorer 7 and 6, export of reservations/events, sorting of addresses for special columns, global time filters and other issues have been fixed in this release.

So make sure you update to R37a, which only involves linking to the new source directory.

]]> Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:09:00 +0100 New release R37 http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/new-release-r37.html A release with many new features. Feedback about bugs and your experience are welcome. This release brings a completly new calendar for the event and reservation modules (based on fullCalendar by Adam Shaw (http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar/). It is based on jQuery and supports drag&drop to edit events.

The second big new feature is the mail merge. You may now write your letters directly inside kOOL and create a mail merge with the kOOL addresses. As this new feature is based on LaTeX you will have to install this on your server (see the release notes).

Some other improvements and bugfixes also made into this release, check the release notes for more details.

 

The documentation for users has been updated for this release, so check it out to read all about it.

]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:14:00 +0100 New release R36 http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/new-release-r36.html Bugfixes and usability issues solved in this release. An update is worthwile as this release brings some improvments to the usability of kOOL by introducing filter and column presets that can be stored globally for all users, new button "save as new" for events, reservations and donations, and also a iCal export for reservations is included.

Make sure, you read the release notes and the update instructions.

]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:57:00 +0200 New release R35 http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/new-release-r35.html This release mainly fixes bugs but also adds some new features. Due to the bugs fixed in this release you are encouraged to update your kOOL installation.

Some new features also made it into this release:

- This release brings graphical statistics for your addresses and small groups. You may combine them with filters which brings almost endless possibilities. You may easily add new statistics with plugins.

- After having entered a request for a moderated reservation item or a moderated event the user didn't see these requests anymore until they got approved by a moderator. Logged in users may now see their own requests and are also allowed to delete them.

- If your mailserver runs with ezmlm-idx as mailinglist manager, you may now manage addresses in kOOL which will automatically be exported to any given ezmlm mailinglist.

]]> renzo@churchtool.org Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:11:52 +0200 Important security update http://www.churchtool.org/news/article/important-security-update.html Please update your kOOL installation. A security issue has been discovered in kOOL which could give access to the DB password. It only happens if the apache configuration allows this access, but you are encouraged to update your current version of kOOL to R34a. If you're updating from a version before R34 make sure to apply all DB and other changes for each update step - read more in the release notes.

]]> renzo@churchtool.org Mon, 11 May 2009 12:48:00 +0200 How to activate SMS functionality http://www.churchtool.org/documentation/for-admins/activate-sms-functionality.html You can use kOOL to send sms messages. This new documentation for admins explains how. renzo@churchtool.org Fri, 01 May 2009 11:27:00 +0200