Friday December 21 Updates: Merry Christmas!

We would like to keep this week's updates short and sweet and for all  take this opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas on behalf of the  entire CampusGroups crew.

It has been a pleasure serving you all this  year and we are dedicated to constantly improving our products and services to you with more exciting updates in 2013. 

We have been and will be working on several improvements over the holiday and those will be summarized in our first  update post of 2013. As always, please feel free to share any feedback which you would like to further discuss with us.

We look forward to a fruitful collaboration in the new year!

Sincerely,

The Campus Groups Team.

 

Friday December 14 Updates

1) Events:
We improved our Event Upload feature.  For the school who  use our Room Reservation system, we now allow you to create room  reservations while uploading events via our Excel template. Only pending approvals are now listed on the "Approve Events" page. 

2) Money:
The  transaction downloads now allows you to select a 'Start' and 'End' dates  for you to download exactly the transactions you are interested in.

3) Feed:
We fixed a bug around Privacy, the author of a post can now manage the privacy settings of his/her posts.

4) Photos & Docs:
We increased the maximum size of a document/photo upload under the "Upload documents" to 50 Mb.

5) Website:
We improved the "Create a new menu item" and "Create a  new Web page" buttons as well as the design of the "Send" button on the  "Contact Us" form.

6) Discussion Board:
We fixed a bug, you can now create new topics for the school-wide discussion board.

7) NYU Stern SWIB:
In collaboration with NYU Stern's SWIB Club  officers, we revamped and helped launch the SWIB Conference's 2013 official  site on CampusGroups.

8) HEC Paris:
In collaboration with HEC  Paris's MBA Council, we designed the upcoming CampusGroups portal which will be used by the incoming students in Spring.

iPhone App - December 14 Updates

We have not submitted any new  version this  week. We are still working on the items listed last week.  We are  planning on submitting Version 1.4 Wednesday Dec 19th.

Customer Support - Success Stories (Dec 10)

• "Awesome! Thanks so much. Have a good weekend!" - Andrea, NOVA Conference, after publishing the new 2012 NOVA Conference website.
• "Awesome. This is incredibly important." - Olaino, Wharton Business School, after performing extensive verification on sensitive user data.
• "Good feedback already! Thanks again. Brenda" - Brenda, NYU Stern, after quickly serving a request for room info addition in calendar downloads.
• "It's awesome. Thank you so much. Have a great day! Best." - Philip, NYU Stern, after merging duplicate user accounts.
• "Thank you so much! " - Ann, Columbia Business School, after completing a request to update 115 student clubs settings.
• "Hi, it's working fine now. Thanks a lot for your help. Best." - Christian, Michigan Ross, after helping him retrieve his account info to log back in.
• "It was great meeting you. Thank you for your follow-up email and for ensuring that the tool is operating effectively.../... We look forward to partnering with you and appreciate the time you took today to meet with us. Best." - Allison, NYU Stern Office of Career Development, after a productive meeting on a dedicated career assessment tool designed by CampusGroups.

Friday December 7 Updates

1) Events:
A  new unified display for My Registrations and My Events was pushed.  Events listing and event details now have a unified look. Registration  options can now be changed on the event details page. You can also see  the number of "Likes" and "Comments".

Waiting List management is currently being tested and will go live with  all schools next Saturday. More changes are coming up (soon to be  announced).

2) My Profile:
You can now select your profile picture from your Photo Tags in a few clicks and also crop it if you want.

3) Officers:
You can now download all the officers (active or not) in the Control Panel.

4) Tags:
We fixed the display of Photo Tags, they were showing on top of each other during last week. 

5) Revision History:
We have created a new generic History link,  which can be placed next to any data field under the Manage section of  your group. A click on the History link will allow you to see the  history of revisions for any given data, including who changed the data  and when. 

6) Navigation:
"Create Event" and "Compose" buttons have been added  to the dashboard to make it faster/easier for you to create content for  your group. More Manage menus are now displayed in Ajax (Members,  Events, Surveys/Forms), allowing faster navigation. All Ajax content  loadings now render with a smooth fade-in effect. 

7) Members:
The "Notify each new member by email" checkbox in the "Add multiple members" feature has been fixed. 

8) Group:
We fixed the "Access" link in the group "Settings" part for the admin clubs. 

9) Blog:
You can now access a blog post with privacy set to  "Everyone" even if all portal pages are behind login and you are not  logged on CampusGroups. 

10) Budgeting:
History links were added for Treasurer comments, approval status and amount. 

iPhone App - December 7 Updates

We have not submitted any new version this week. 

We are currently working on:
- Auto-login: logs user back in even after they have killed the App.
- Formatting: making sure the text size and paddings are all aligned.
- Notifications: event reminders, event updated.
-  People section: allow users to browse pictures of students from their  class and access useful information such as their email address.

Friday November 30 Updates

1) Login: 
When a CG instance is behind login, we still want some pages to be accessible, like the Login page or the Reset Password page. This past week we added the Survey/Form page to this list.

2) Events: 
On the event creation page we modified the "Save" button into "Create Event", because an event is created and visible on the calendar as soon as the button is hit. We also fixed the re-ordering of the Registrations Options. Moreover, when starting a new event registration without being logged on, a user used to see an empty Order Summary just after logging on successfully. We fixed this. Lastly, the timeslot issue for the duplicated events has been fixed. The same timeslot should now be displayed on the "Edit Event" page and on the "RSVP" page. 

3) My Profile: 
We improved each page's look and feel, keeping the same display for each type of content (title - borders - buttons). 

4) Navigation: 
The left menu has been improved thanks to the addition of Javascript. Pages are now being called in Ajax in order to speed up loading time. Additionally, the loading message has been improved to contain more text/details and be easier to read.  Also, the Generic Privacy Messages (example: "This page can only be accessed by Group Members"), have been improved to better match the context in which they were displayed. Finally, we changed the search and status boxes default values and behaviors.

5) Notifications: 
We fixed some display issues on the comment boxes of the Notifications page.

6) Discussion Board: 
We fixed a display issue (i.e. We added poster info back to the right), and we improved this widget's loading time.

7) Tags: 
We made the Tags look more similar across all pages.

8) Stats:
We are now tracking Google Analytics hits on ajax calls. Also, a small bug encountered when accessing school statistics has been fixed.

9) Security:
We ran an audit on our Web pages and have added security to a number of pages.
 

iPhone App - November 30 Updates

Version 1.3 currently waiting for Apple's approval will contain the following updates:

- Login: Single Sign On custom instructions can now be desplayed on the login page. In addition, a bug forcing users to log back in after putting the app in the background has been fixed.
- News: a search feature has been added to search for groups, emails, events and people.
- Groups: group type is now displayed on the details of a group. 
- Officers: the name of the group is now displayed in the header of the officers listing page.

- Events: dates are now properly formatted on every view.
- Payments: currency next to amount paid has been fixed.