Dear HarmonySite administrator,

This email announces some new features in your HarmonySite, all from the list of requested features that you have all been contributing to...

Banners Administration

In HarmonySite, a "banner" is a photo in the slideshow on your Home page.  We received suggestions for two new features for managing your banners...

1. Moving and resizing the (optional) text box overlaying the banner, which contains a caption/quote for the banner, was cumbersome and clunky.
2. Reordering the sequence of banners was difficult without seeing them visually represented on the reordering screen.

Both of those annoyances have now been addressed...

There's a new link on your Admin Dashboard, called "Banners (home page)".  This link is in the CENTRE column of links - not to be confused with the link of the same name in the RIGHT-hand column.  Click that link and you'll see a new page for managing your banners, where you can do the following...

• Reorder them - simply by dragging and dropping the banners up and down.
• Adding new banners - via the "Add new banner" button top-right
• Updating and deleting existing banners - via the "Update" and "Delete" links
• NEW  Resize/reposition each banner's text box - via the new "Adjust Quote Box" link for each banner, circled in red on the screenshot below...

Clicking on the "Adjust Quote Box" link takes you to a page like the following...

REPOSITIONING the quote box is done either by (a) entering numbers into the "top" and "left" boxes at the bottom of the page, or (b) double-clicking with your mouse on the banner photo where the top-left corner of the quote box should be.

RESIZING the quote box is done either by (a) entering numbers into the "width" and "height" boxes at the bottom of the page, or (b) dragging with your mouse the "resize handle" - a small triangular ridged area in the bottom-right corner of the quote box, almost impossible to see.  If you click and hold down your mouse about a millimetre in from the bottom-right corner of the quote box, and start moving your mouse, you should see the quote box move with the mouse.

Don't forget to save your changes when you're done, by clicking the "Save" button at the bottom of the page.

Notes

• The repositioning/resizing functionality on this page may not work well on iPads or iPhones
• Repositioning by double-click may be off by a few pixels

Scheduled Tasks Page (Premium feature)

As advised in an earlier announcement email, HarmonySite now has the ability to automate some tasks, to happen unattended at certain times of the day/month/etc.

Examples of such tasks may include...

• Perform regular member invoicing (invoice any member who fees have recently become due)
• Send reminders for overdue invoices
• Send a reminder email to anyone that has not responded to a request for event-availability
• Send a text message to all members
• Send a specific email to a specific set of people
• Back up the member database to a CSV file
• ...Or anything else that you can think of that can be programmed to run in an unattended way

This feature is now more visible in your HarmonySite.  There's now a page on your Admin Dashboard called "Scheduled Tasks", which lists all the tasks currently available to be scheduled in your HarmonySite.  The page also describes how this is a "premium" feature, and thus costs money to enable ($40 per year).

Note that if you pay to enable this system, you would not be limited to the tasks listed above.  You can also request whatever scheduled tasks you want, and they will be developed for you (if possible).

We have several suggestions in our Feature-Suggestion list for automating tasks, such as sending emails, reminders, etc.  These are now all considered complete, as they are now available via this new feature.

Search by Order/Invoice number

The "Orders/Invoices/Bookings/Donations" page (accessible from your Admin Dashboard) has several criteria at the top of the page for finding subsets of the orders/invoices/etc.  This set of criteria now includes the order/invoice/etc NUMBER (e.g. 17123), as shown in the screenshot below...

That's all for now, but as you can see, we are actively working through the list of requested new features.

In harmony,

Mark Virtue

HarmonySite

Australia

+61 2 8005 4277 (Australian number)

In North America, call:  1-415-651-7009 (San Francisco number)

Skype name:  mvirtue

mark@harmonysite.com

www.harmonysite.com