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VERSION CHANGES

 

The information below describes only major functional changes to each version. Aesthetic changes (colors, layout...etc) are not listed.

Full details about the changes to Faithworks are on a document which can be viewed here.

"If you have ideas you would like to see incorporated in the next version of Faithworks, I would love to hear about them." - Angelo

 

 

Release Date: Jul 2010

  • Bug fix: Bugs corrected in Pastoral Care screen when searching by Action Date. Faithworks was incorrectly displaying a message when the From Date was before the To Date.

Release Date: Dec 2009

  • Bug fix: Bugs corrected in People Search when searching on Important Events and also when selecting the operator of "No Record" for A Groups.

Release Date: Jul 2009

  • Added the ability for the user to send html emails.

  • Changed the sort order of the list of people in the main screen to sort by Surname, then Preferred Name.

  • Bug fix: Bugs in People Search when searching on Suburb and Custom Field 2 were corrected.

Release Date: Apr 2009

  • Bug fix: The Important Event (in the Individual Profile) screen "At this Church" field stored the opposite value to what the user selects.

  • Added a custom field in the Important Events

  • Added the ability for the user to select which fields get transferred to MS Outlook contacts.

Release Date: November 2008

  • You can now send SMS to the parents of children.

  • The Training section now has a "due date" field, which can be used in People Search.

  • In the People Search results, you can now see the fields from other areas that may have been used in the query (ie. Training, A-Groups...etc). You can use these fields in your email merge.

  • The Important Events section now records at what church the event took place. The Statistics section also includes whether events took place at your church.

Release Date: 25 May 2008

  • Added the ability to send SMS messages from Faithworks

Release Date: 1 Jan 2008  (Current evaluation version)

  • Completely refreshed the front end of Faithworks giving it a new, easy to use, look and feel.

  • Incorporated lifecycles (spiritual journey) into the Important Events, and added automatic reporting on the the lifecycles.

Release Date: 6 Oct 2007

  • Bug Fix - In People Search if Between Dates was used in the criteria of a search, the day and month would be reversed if a day between 1 and 12 was used.

  • Bug Fix - In People Search, if the LIKE operator was used to search text, it would not produce the expected result (the code lacked the required "*").

  • Added the ability to easily setup read only users (without having to use the complicated MS Access workgroups model)

Release Date: 3 Jul 2006

  • Added the ability for same sex relationships (and defacto relationships) to have a postage label of (for example) “Mr A Smith and Mr B Jones” for the postage label in People Searched.

  • Added the 'Connections' feature. This allows users to 'connect' individuals with other individuals, and categorize the relationship. An example of how this would be used is to record an emergency contact list for individuals.

Release Date: 1 Apr 2006

  • It is now possible to make 'invisible' individuals with certain status's (eg. people who are 'deceased', 'removed', 'archived')..

Release Date: 3 Sept  2005

  • You can now categorize your A-Groups.

Release Date: 27 Oct 2004 

  • Completely revamped and more powerful People Search.

  • Family Units can now have apostrophes. Previously some features in Faithworks erred if an apostrophe existed in the family unit.

Release Date: 26 Feb 2004 

  • Enhanced People Search to enable you to merge the selected people into their family units. This more accurately sends mail to just those people selected, compared to using the 'Spouses Together' or 'Family Unit' buttons. (See the manual for more information on this feature). Also added extra fields to the People Search window.

Release Date: Oct 2003 

  • Enhanced People Search to enable you to select a group of people excluding other people. For example, you can now easily arrange a mail out to all 'Members' except those in Group A, or in Leadership Area B.

  • Added a new screen (Church Involvement) enabling you to easily add/remove/tag people in areas (groups, leadership...etc) in Faithworks.

  • Modified the Emailing feature to bypass the Outlook security message (only applies to Outlook 2000 or greater with the Security Update installed, and only to PC's with Windows NT, 2000, or XP).

  • Added an extra field of "Preferred Name" (while maintaining "First Name").

Release Date: Sept 2003 

  • When duplicating details for family members, you can now choose what fields you want copied. 

  • Added a fantastic new group absenteeism reporting feature. You can now view who has been absent more than X times from the last Y meetings from group Z (you can set X, Y and Z). You can easily arrange mail merges (or emails) to these people. This is a great tool for following up those people who haven't been attending meetings.

Release Date: Jan 2003 

  • Faithworks stores procedures for suburbs you enter in. This means you only have to enter in the post code for a suburb once, and the next time you enter that suburb, the post code will automatically be entered. (Thanks Jan from Beachway Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Perth, for the suggestion).

  • 2 new customisable fields have been introduced, allowing you to re-label these fields for what ever purpose you need. These fields have also been incorporated in the People Search feature.

  • Accountability feature has been modified to display a 'explorer' like interface.

  • Added a fields called 'Last User' which records the User ID of the last person that edited an individual profile. .The User ID will only be valid if workgroups and user id's have been set up.

  • Added the following new fields to individual profiles:

  • Entry Reason - records how the person was introduced to the church

  • Exit Reason - records why the person decided to leave the church

  • Entry Date - records when the individual first entered the church

  • Exit Date - records when the individual exited the church

  • Silent Number - Yes/No field recording whether the person would like to maintain silent contact phone numbers.

Release Date: July  2002

 

Groups and Meetings

A new "Groups and Meetings" window consolidates 3 sections of the previous version of Faithworks – Small Groups, Meeting Attendance / Tagging, and Special Purpose Groups – and includes the addition of more features.

The extra features include:

  • The ability to classify a group into 2 categories (Group Category 1, Group Category 2).

  • The ability to store quantative statistics of group meetings such as Attendance numbers, and other customized activities to suit your church (eg. Healings, Collection, Salvations...etc). This let’s you know what’s happening in your groups.

  • The ability to have cell group leaders relay the details of a group meeting to the church, by using the Internet. You can experience the feedback page by clicking here.

Statistics

You can now gain statistical information on activity in cell groups, and have choices of categories, grouping on months or days.

It is also possible to store Faithworks statistics on more than 4 status’s.

 

Improved Data Integrity

The drop down lists used in Faithworks (ie. Those viewable through the Utilities screen) have now been linked to the tables that use them. This means that it is not possible to delete a word from a drop down list, that is currently in use. In previous versions of Faithworks, deleting a word could be possible by entering the tables directly.

Also, it is now possible to update related records if a change is made to the spelling of a word. For example, if 30 people had been given a status of “Memmber”, and then you realized there was a spelling mistake, no problem. By using the Utilities, and selecting the ‘Status’ list, you only need to change the spelling of the word “Memmber” to “Member” and all 30 people will have the new spelling.

This does not happen in earlier versions of Faithworks.

 

People Search

This section has been modified to incorporate the new Groups section. You are able to choose individual Groups, or filter by Group Categories.

 

MS Outlook Integration

Expanded the features in transferring people to MS Outlook 2000: (Thanks Scott from Whitford Church of Christ (Perth) for the feedback regarding this change)

  • Choose whether to transfer the Date of Births into the Outlook Calendar.

  • Choose to transfer the people into the Contacts folder or a Contacts\Faithworks folder.

  • Updates any existing contacts already in MS Outlook

  • Remove Faithworks Outlook contacts that are no longer in the Faithworks database.

Release Date: Mar 2002 

  • Added a new "Frequency" field to the details of the groups (ie. choose from "Daily, Weekly, Fortnightly...etc").

  • In the personal details screen, choosing a "Suburb" is now performed through a 'drop down list'. This helps prevent spelling inconsistencies when entering data.

Release Date: Feb 2002  

  • The windows help feature has been removed and replaced with the manual in MS Word format.

Release Date: Nov 2001 

  • Added the ability to arrange email merges from within the People Search screen. So now you can easily send postage correspondence to those people without email, while sending an email to those 'on the internet'! Faithworks - making church tasks easier......

Release Date: Sept 2001

  • Modified the Statistics screen to allow for a blank 'Congregation' field. Applies to churches who do not have more than one congregation. Prior to this change, users must have selected a 'congregation', and if individual profiles had a blank congregation, then they would not be included in the statistics.

  • Also modified the 'Age Threshold' field in the Statistics window, to allow the user to change its value, without going into design mode.

Release Date: Aug 2001 

  • A list of reports to choose from after selecting your People Search criteria - ie. Birthdays (lists birthdays of people selected), Directory, Contact Tracking, Individual Profile

  • You now have the ability to set your own 'Age Range' from within People Search.

  • Contact Tracking now has another field noting who entered the record.

  • Mail Merging no longer starts another instance of Faithworks (a known Microsoft Access bug).

Version 2.06.07     (Date released: June 2000)

  • Extra utility feature enabling automatic export of selected individuals (using church status), who have an email address, into MS Outlook.

Version 2.05.10     (Date released: May 2000)

  • New fields include 'Envelope Number', 'Work Email', 'Known As' (i.e. name).

  • 'Date stamp' recording the date and time an individual profile was last modified.

  • A separate window has been created for 'Custom Reports'.

  • A button in 'Individual Profiles' allowing the user to easily completely erase an individual from within Faithworks.

Version 1.12.16     (Date released: Feb 2000) 

  • The report displaying the results of 'People Search' now allows the user to type in their own report heading, and select how they want the list sorted.

  • Renamed the labels for 'postage details' in the Individual Profile form.

  • Help file including manual has been incorporated into Faithworks.

  • Family Units: When changing the family unit of an individual, Faithworks will ask you if you wish to change the family unit of all those with the original family unit. 

  • A utility button has been added which deletes any unused family units.

  • The ability to easily change the names of Small Groups.

Version 1.11.15     (Date released: November 1999)

The first "internet available" version.

 
 

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