Chrrch - What is to come in v0.3a?
As some of you know, Chrrch is coming along quickly.
In v0.3a we are adding 2 new major features…
Our Mail Merge feature allows for very extensive letter creation using "MS Word-like" formatting capabilities. These letters can be sent in several different sessions in email or printable format.
Mail letters can be reused by other people in your church if needed. You can add individual people or entire groups of people as recipients to your mail session.
Processes and Queues is a new feature of Chrrch and is not something uncommon to see in other ChMS systems. This is the "tracking" piece that you may get in other systems such as not letting your visitors fall through the cracks. This allows you to create individual procedures and reuse them for anyone in your database.
An example of a Process would be "First Time Visitors" and it may have different queues or tasks that need completed when a visitor is added to this process such as "Send Visitor Letter" or "In-home Visitation" or "Send Fruit Basket"(if you are really nice, please send one my way too!)
Each process has managers, these would typically be pastoral staff that have tasks to do for each visitor or person in the queue. These managers will receive email notifications when a new person is added to their queue or they are assigned to a queue as well as a upcoming tasks will appear on their Dashboard so they can get a overview of the closely due queues.
The explanation of these features will become more extensive once they are released and utilized but this is merely a small announcement of them.
Happy programming!
UPDATE! This functionality should launch on Friday, August 29nd, 2008.
-j
