| 12/7/08 |
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Within Manage Web Site Information, "None" is now an option under Country. Choose this if you do not wish to have your country displayed within Web Site Contact Information postings. |
| 10/17/08 |
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A new "Weather Information" content feed has been added. This allows users to search for a forecast by entering a city, state, ZIP Code, or country. If the user searches for a forecast by ZIP Code and has the "Save" box checked, that city's current conditions will appear above the forecast search box upon repeat visits to the page. |
| 9/25/08 |
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For sites with the "Allow participants within your Web site to publish content on your Web site" setting turned on, site participants are now able to add, edit and delete site calendar events.
RSS Feed content object now works properly with Lutherans Online Blog RSS feed URLs.
Internal-use partner site templates are now hidden on the "Change Church Body Affiliation" page within Web Site Manager. |
| 7/17/08 |
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New posting layouts for Flickr and YouTube have been added to the "Basic Two" layout set. These postings will automatically display the latest media from your Flickr or YouTube account, or just enter a search tag and display a random set of images or video from the site.
More options added to RSS Feed content object, including ability to display content as HTML (if available from the feed) or as a simple bulleted list of items.
New "Feeds" category added to the Custom Layout interface, which contains Content Feed, RSS Feed, Flickr and YouTube content objects. |
| 4/16/08 |
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RSS Feed content object added. You can now display customizable content from any RSS Feed by choosing the "RSS Feed" posting type under the "Basic Two" layout set. An RSS Feed option is also now available in the "Publishing" menu of the Custom Layout interface.
An issue with some users not being able to FTP into their Web site has been fixed. |
| 4/26/07 |
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Links within Map Link postings will now open the map in a new window.
Each site's Web Site Logo is now clickable and will link to the main page of the site.
Site category/channel changes should now take effect immediately. Previously, site category/channel updates would take several hours to take effect.
Administrators of sites that are in a pending (inactive) state and have not been modified for 30 days will receive an email encouraging them to update or publish their site within the next two weeks. A second email is sent in another 15 days telling the user to modify or publish their site, or call the help desk to keep it in an inactive state. Pending sites which have not been modified or published are then deleted three days later. |
| 10/5/06 |
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The Create-A-Site process has been enhanced to allow new sites to be built in an inactive state before they are published for all to see. Created Web sites will remain in an inactive status until the individual creating the Web site indicates they'd like to publish the site. A button has been added in the top navigation which needs to be clicked to publish the site, at which time it will move to an active status. Users will also be able to inactivate and republish their site at any time. |
| 8/17/06 |
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Church Bodies and Congregations channels have been combined into one central "Churches" channel. |
| 8/14/06 |
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An issue where site update emails were not displaying what content was updated has been fixed. |
| 7/20/06 |
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An issue which retrieved an incorrect error message when uploading an image exceeding the space limit has been resolved. |
| 7/10/06 |
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The correct format for an e-mail address is now required when editing a classified ad entry. |
5/28/06 |
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An issue has been fixed where "Page cannot be displayed" would display if you clicked a private Web site link when not already logged in. This would also occur after Step 2 of the Create a Web Site process if you tried creating a new Web site when not already logged in. |
| 5/24/06 |
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An issue to have inactive activities appear correctly in the calendars and event listings has been corrected. |
5/22/06 |
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The "Done" button was removed from Top Frame sites when a user is not logged in (or a site administrator). |
| 5/18/06 |
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A male/female database corruption issue in the Singles Seeking database has been corrected. |
5/18/06 |
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Calendar issues regarding inactive events still displaying and "monthly weeks" events not showing on certain days has been fixed. |
4/27/06 |
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LCMS Daily Devotion and Through the Bible in a Year content feeds added. What
are content feeds? |
4/12/06 |
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Site Map and Site Directory links moved from the "Site Administration" panel in the left-navigation to the top of the footer. A Privacy Policy link was also added to the top of the footer. |
3/15/06 |
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The Lutherans Online home page is now hosted outside of our CPS Web
site publishing system. Now, if the CPS Web site publishing system
goes down for any reason, the home page will still render and automatically
generate an error message informing users that parts of the site
are temporarily unavailable.
Within Freeform publishing, moving a file into a different directory which already contains a file with the same name will no longer overwrite the file in the different directory. An error message now displays, informing users to rename the file before moving it.
Clicking a file attachment icon within a publishing page will now open the file in a new window.
Issues with changing an image thumbnail width have been resolved.
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2/16/06 |
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An issue with online forms not sending emails to the form administrator has been fixed. All emails in the queue were sent. |
2/1/06 |
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An issue has been fixed where slash characters would appear before any apostrophes on the page. This affected Singles Seeking, Classifieds, Genealogy, and some feedback forms.
Typing in an invalid alias using the old http://www.lutheransonline.com/lo/alias Web address now directs you to the proper "Page Not Found" screen.
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1/17/06 |
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An issue where question marks would display instead of special characters,
such as smartquotes copied from MS Word, has been fixed. Note that you
may need to reupload your content to have the text properly display.
An issue was fixed where an Open/Save/Cancel prompt would display when
clicking on a thumbnail image that was uploaded with a capitalized extension
(example: myimage.JPG). Note that you may need to delete your Temporary
Internet Files (Tools->Internet Options->Delete
Files) to get the image to properly display full size within a new browser
window.
The list of participants within Participant List postings now sort
correctly.
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12/15/05 |
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LCMS e-News Content Feed added. What
are content feeds? |
12/14/05 |
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A redirecting issue with adding the old "/lo/" prefix before your site alias within a Web site URL has been resolved. Users can get to your Lutherans Online Web site with or without adding "/lo/" before your site alias (e.g., http://www.lutheransonline.com/mysitealias.) |
12/11/05 |
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v.6.0 released. Lutherans Online has
been moved to a new, faster server. Several small bug fixes have
been implemented as well.
Note: If you use FTP to upload files to your Lutherans Online
Web site, you will need to change the host settings for connecting to
your site. Instead of connecting to ftp://loweb05.lutheransonline.com/websites/alias,
you will now need to connect to ftp://www1.lutheransonline.com/websites/alias. Refer to the bottom of your Freeform Administration page for more information. |
11/4/05 |
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Three WELS Content Feeds added: Daily Devotions, Daily Prayers and News Releases. What are content feeds? |
11/2/05 |
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"Change Synod Affiliation" has been renamed to "Change Church Body Affiliation." |
9/23/05 |
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An issue where content feed postings could
not be created has been fixed. |
9/21/05 |
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An Online Help-specific search was added to the Online Help home page. |
8/23/05 |
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Top frame sites and the front page of each
chapter Web site now properly display within search results.
Also, chapter newsletter pages within chapter sites will show up
within search results when a new newsletter is added to the page.
397 unused Web sites have been removed from
Lutherans Online. |
7/25/05 |
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An issue where thumbnail images would not display properly has been fixed. |
7/11/05 |
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Clicking "List Freeform Files" on Web sites that do not have any freeform files now displays an empty list. |
6/23/05 |
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Chapter Web site administrators now cannot change the Web site name for their chapter Web site, and 13 chapter Web site names have been reverted to their official chapter name. |
6/16/05 |
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Clicking "Log Out" now properly logs you out of Lutherans Online when using Netscape or Firefox browsers. Note: This issue did not affect Web Site Publishing or E-Greeting Cards. |
6/6/05 |
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An issue where using quotes within a message
board post would show up as "& QUOT" on Mac computers is fixed.
Orphan Freeform files removed from the server. This should not affect any user Web sites. |
6/3/05 |
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New Content Feed Added: "Thrivent Financial
News", which displays links to the five most recent Thrivent Financial
news releases. Learn how to add
a content feed to your site. |
6/1/05 |
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Several Online Help pages were added or updated, including how to preview and rename Freeform HTML files, how to make files private, and how to make Publishing pages inactive. Also, two new help documents were added within Freeform Administration for how to rename
files and folders. |
5/22/05 |
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Chat now has a new look and feel with several
new features including emoticons, text formatting, the ability
to float the chat window, and a control panel you can use for further
customization of your chat session. Note that while the community
message boards were also redesigned, message boards within user
Web sites were not changed. |
4/26/05 |
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Pages within the Congregations channel that were previously named "ELCA Synods," "LCMS Districts," and "WELS Districts" are now named "ELCA Related Organizations," "LCMS Related Organizations," and "WELS Related Organizations." |
4/21/05 |
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A new page was added to Online Help describing how to create sub-pages. |
4/20/05 |
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Sites whose Web Site Name are only one character long are now properly linked within channel/sub-channel associated site postings. |
4/13/05 |
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Two bugs were fixed today: one where users might have gotten a "layout data select" error when posting new images, and another
where thumbnail images were not displaying properly.
1,209 Web sites that have never been modified since their initial creation were removed from Lutherans Online. |
4/1/05 |
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A Fraternal Highlights content feed is now available, which includes a text box users can fill in and submit to view Thrivent Financial for Lutherans fraternal highlight information from their local community. |
3/15/05 |
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An error has been fixed when "Sub-Pages of this page" is selected to display for a Page Links posting and there are no Sub-Pages. |
3/11/05 |
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An issue has been fixed where users would get a koblet error when uploading a new file within a Publishing site posting. |
3/8/05 |
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Freeform HTML files that have been marked as
Private will no longer appear within site search results. |
3/7/05 |
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Enhancements to the site released today include:
Image Thumbnail feature added! When uploading images within a Publishing page posting, in addition to "Image" and "Attachment" options, there is now a "Thumbnail" option. Choosing this will display a smaller version of your uploaded image that will automatically be linked to the full-size version of the image, which will open up in a new browser window. You can change the width of the thumbnail image by using the "Thumbnail Image Width:" option, with the default being 150 pixels. FYI, selecting "Attachment" will show an icon that, when clicked, will bring up a pop-up window displaying the full-size version of the image. Selecting "Image" will display the full-size image on the screen, but has a maximum width of 1024 pixels and a maximum height of 768 pixels. Any images uploaded as "Image" that are larger than these will be shrunk down to meet these requirements.
If you have multiple calendar events on the same day and choose one of them to be inactive, the calendar will no longer shade the day as if there are no events on that date. |
2/18/05 |
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A calendar bug with "Mark Private" and "Mark Public" links displaying to users not logged in has been fixed. |
2/8/05 |
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Site administration and calendar upgrades:
All HTML and text files uploaded within Freeform Administration can now be set public or private by clicking "Mark Private" or "Mark Public."
Introductory text has been added to the "Change Synod Affiliation" page within Web Site Manager.
An issue where the first day of the following month would display within site mini-calendars showing a monthly view has been fixed.
Within site calendars, after updating an event in a future month, the calendar in the left-side of the screen will continue to display the future month instead of defaulting back to the current month.
106 top frame sites that have never been modified from their default setting
were removed from Lutherans Online.
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2/3/05 |
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A bug with viewing calendars that had many monthly and yearly events in them has been fixed. |
2/1/05 |
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Thrivent Financial's new online store for promotional merchandise and Lutherans Online gifts, now named The Store, was successfully launched! The Store, hosted by Club Colors, replaces the former Market Place / E-Retail store hosted by GroupII Communications.
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1/31/05 |
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A bug has been fixed where an error would be generated if you submitted an online form, hit the "Back" button on your browser, then clicked "Refresh." |
1/24/05 |
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Web site publishing and calendar upgrades:
The Create a Web Site process has been redesigned! The steps have been reordered and redesigned to make the process easier than ever!
For repeating calendar events, you can choose to make certain dates inactive by clicking "Make Inactive" from the calendar Desk View. Likewise, you can also make them active again by clicking "Make Active."
When creating a new calendar event, choosing "Event never ends" will no longer display "through 2014" text.
If you try removing yourself as both administrator and participant of a Web site by clicking the "Remove as Participant" button within Manage Administrative Roles, you will get a warning screen asking if you are sure you want to do this.
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1/10/05 |
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Shortcut icons redesigned to be slightly smaller and more transparent. |
1/7/05 |
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Mini-calendar postings using the "Vertical List" layout that had more than five events in the same day created an error. This has been fixed. |
1/6/05 |
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"About Our Chapter" text is now available as a Content Feed, and chapter sites with this information have been automatically updated. |
1/5/05 |
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A problem with creating new Web sites using the Non-Profit template has been fixed.
When adding a new page to a Web site, the page alias no longer allows spaces, punctuation or special characters. Any page built with an alias that contained any of these types of characters was modified to remove the extra characters and is now working properly. |
1/4/05 |
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Any "Participate" buttons on a site will now be displayed for site administrators when "Show Shortcuts" is enabled.
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1/3/05 |
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Web site publishing and calendar upgrades:
Shortcut icons are now available for quickly editing your Publishing site! Edit/Format/Customize buttons will appear below each posting on your site and will allow you to modify the posting with one click! You can still click "Edit Page" to see the full list of modification options. You can also optionally turn these new buttons off by clicking "Hide Shortcuts" at the top of the page. Shortcut Toolbar has been renamed to just "Toolbar."
All Format Posting options have been moved to the main Edit Page screen as links underneath the appropriate postings, instead of having a second screen with these two options. You can also get to these Format Posting options via the new Shortcuts, as described above.
A new "Upcoming Events" mini-calendar option has been added. You can use this to display upcoming events for any number of days that you wish. You can also choose whether to displaying upcoming events starting today, or on any previous day of the week (example: Sunday to Sunday.)
On the "Monthly Weeks" add calendar event option, you can now choose multiple weeks of the month (example: you can have a calendar event that only occurs on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month.)
Within certain mini-calendar posting layouts, if an event was chosen to be highlighted, the day and date will be highlighted in addition to the event name.
Site and page links are now linked by alias instead of system URL.
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12/10/04 |
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File size limits are now enforced within Lutherans Online. For more information, click here.
Added 2 help files for "Freeform Publishing Administration" and "View Image" screens.
The "Choose a Layout" screen has undergone a minor redesign.
When uploading an image that is more than 1024 pixels in width or 768 pixels in height, a message appears informing the user that the image has been resized.
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12/7/04 |
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Added 2 help files for "Edit HTML File" and "Add a Folder" screens.
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12/3/04 |
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A small bug was fixed in mini-calendar postings where on days with more than five calendar entries, the background color in the "more..." row was the same color as the row for the next day instead of the same background color as other entries for that day.
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12/2/04 |
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A bug was fixed in mini-calendar postings using a multi-column format which would generate an error when there were more than four events in a day.
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11/22/04 |
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An XML error screen that occasionally was produced by moving postings within a page has been fixed.
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11/18/04 |
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A Freeform HTML file administration issue where JPG files were showing as "application" instead of "image", and HTML files were showing as "magnus-internal" instead of "text" has been fixed.
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11/16/04 |
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Message board and calendar upgrades were pushed live today:
Message board topics now have three levels of security: "Public" (any logged in Lutherans Online user can read and post messages), "Public read-only" (formerly "Private," where any logged in Lutherans Online user can read but only participants can post messages) and new "Private" (only participants can view and post messages.) All message board topics that were formerly "Private" are now set to "Public read-only."
When viewing your calendar in "All Events" mode, you can now sort by start date or create date, and you can also specify if you would like the listings displayed in ascending or descending order.
There is a new "Upcoming Events" option when displaying calendar events which will show all current events that will occur within the next 365 days.
When adding a new calendar event, you now have the option to "Highlight this event within mini-calendar postings." This will make a particular event bolded and in a slightly larger font size than other calendar events shown within mini-calendar postings.
Within "Format Mini Calendar, "Mini-Calendar Background Colors," the "Body Area" and "Accent Color" settings are better utilized for alternating row colors or highlighting event dates.
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11/5/04 |
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More Web Publishing System updates were made today:
Create a Site front page now forces a user to click a button to accept the Terms and Conditions before creating a site.
"Add or Edit a Custom Layout" now allows 10 rows of content objects instead of 6. Also, when editing layouts that were created using this tool, you can now add, move and delete content objects in addition to being able to hide content objects you do not wish to display.
The ability for site administrators to remove both administration and participation rights from a user has been added to the "Manage Administrative Roles" page in Web Site Manager. Administrators also can still remove participation rights by clicking "Manage Participants" in Web Site Manager.
All .gif and .jpg images previously uploaded within Publishing site postings also now have a maximum width of 1024 pixels and a maximum height of 768 pixels. All images with a higher resolution will be displayed at these maximums. Note: If you would still like an image to be downloaded in full resolution, within the posting, choose "Display image as: Attachment."
The headings on the Web Site Manager page have been renamed, and "List Freeform Files" was moved into the new "Settings and Preferences" area.
Added "Title, Text, Expansion Link with 6 Images, and White Space" posting layout under "Photo Album."
The 32 fraternal Regional Financial Office sites now have their site alias locked, but it is still viewable to administrators by clicking "Web Site URL Alias" from Web Site Manager.
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11/2/04 |
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Inactive pages no longer display within search results.
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11/1/04 |
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Several small updates were made today:
Within Freeform HTML file administration, file types that are not images or text now have a "download" option if you wish to download the file to your computer.
Chapter Web Sites now have a "Web Site URL Alias" page within Web Site Manager so chapter leaders can view their Web site address.
All new .gif and .jpg images uploaded above 1024x768 resolution will now be displayed as 1024x768. Existing images will remain their current size.
Online Help, Poll Archive and Lutheran Joke Archive is now searchable from our left-navigation search engine.
A "Done" button has been added to top-frame and calendar pages.
Browser titles for various administrative pages have been updated to accurately reflect the content of the page.
"Delete Message Board Topic" screen now has its own unique help file.
"Add or Edit a Custom Layout" page design has been tweaked.
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10/20/04 |
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Added help file to "Add Message Board Topic" page.
Occasional "Request Entity Too Large" error when editing a site has been fixed.
Orphan Freeform files removed from the server. This should not affect any user Web sites.
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10/6/04 |
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A problem with Web Link postings adding extra characters has been fixed.
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9/17/04 |
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An occasional problem with adding content to postings or saving chapter newsletters has been fixed. |
8/31/04 |
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Chapter site aliases have been reverted back to their official chapter name, without spaces or punctuation. |
8/18/04 |
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Due to privacy concerns, Lutherans Online users are no longer able to be searched from the "Add a Participant" administrative page, nor will show up within site participant list postings. To have your information displayed publicly within these two areas, you must now opt-in by updating your "Privacy Preferences" under "Manage my Profile," "Web Site Profile."
Four new help files were added for participant postings.
The "Edit Posting" page now has its own header graphic and help file. |
8/17/04 |
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A problem involving broken links within site update E-mails has been fixed. |
8/12/04 |
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ELCA, LCMS and WELS "Outside U.S." sub-channels added.
A bug where new posts on site message boards was not being included in site update E-mails is fixed.
"Financial Associate" changed to "financial representative" on the home page of most Chapter Web sites. |
8/11/04 |
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Nine more help screens added, including format site lists, content feeds and system layout areas.
Web Site Logo updated on chapter and fraternal RFO sites to the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans logo that contains the "Where Values Thrive" tagline. |
8/10/04 |
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Added States->Outside U.S. sub-channel. |
8/9/04 |
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Several updates were made today:
The "Edit Page" and "Web Site Manager" buttons will now display if you are on the expanded view within a page that contains a posting with an expansion link.
"Schedule a Chat" has been renamed to "Add a Chat Room."
A "Page Last Updated" posting layout added to the "Headers and Footers" section.
Help screens have been added for the "List Freeform Files" and "Form Options" pages.
The form title and introductory text areas within "Form Options" now display in reverse order, so form title appears bolded at the top of the online form and introductory text displays below the title.
Chapter Web sites are no longer able to change their URL alias. Soon we will be resetting these back to their official chapter name in preparation for further integration with thrivent.com. |
8/6/04 |
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Added "My Site" link to the left-navigation of the Site Directory page.
A problem with adding new calendar entries before 10 a.m. has been fixed. |
8/5/04 |
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Signature sites updated and some lesser-used templates removed when creating a new Web site.
Change a Question page within online forms now has a header graphic and help file similar to the rest of the section. |
8/3/04 |
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Three more help files were added to the CPS system, mostly within the online forms area. |
8/2/04 |
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"Other Church Bodies" page split into "Other Congregations" and "Other Church Bodies" pages. |
7/29/04 |
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A problem with the data set of the individual site message boards required us to restore a backup of all posts as of Tuesday morning. Any posts from Tuesday morning through Thursday morning will need to be reposted. We apologize for the inconvenience. |
7/27/04 |
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v5.6 Released. This release has upgraded our message board system as well as fixed a variety of other issues.
The message boards within individual Web sites have been redesigned.
On postings that contain a Web Link, if you do not insert "http://" or "mailto:" for web or E-mail addresses, the system will automatically add this in so the links will still work properly.
If you use expansion link postings, you now have the option within Edit Page to view what the page will look like in both Expanded and Contracted Views.
"List Freeform Files" has been added under "Web Site Feature Management" on the Web Site Manager screen. This will allow you to view your uploaded files without having to go into Freeform administration or FTP. You can also view the system URL of the files in case you would like to use them within postings that utilize HTML.
Clicking Show/Hide Shortcuts now keeps you on the same page instead of redirecting to that site's home page.
Last Updated date display postings will now show when any posting within the page was updated, instead of displaying when the date on the "last updated posting" was updated.
The Participate button will now display within Edit Page so Site Administrators may see how it will look when visitors view the page.
On a page with multiple screens (a page that has more postings than the amount allowed per page), after editing or adding a new posting, the following page will stay on the screen you were on instead of redirecting back to the first screen within that page.
Chat Transcript and Active Chat display postings now properly display the date if a layout was chosen that includes a date display. Text has been tweaked as well.
The way the time is displayed within a site calendar has been modified. When both "No specific start time" and "No specific end time" are checked, the system will display the time as "all day". When "No specific start time" is checked and "No specific end time" is not checked, no time will be displayed.
Otherwise, the calendar will display the start time.
Intro text has been updated to the Manage Administrative Roles page within Web Site Manager.
A link to our FTP FAQ has been added to the bottom of the Freeform Administration page.
The top-navigation within the Calendar now has a Done button, which will take you to the previous page you were on.
Note added to postings that contain a horizontal rule. We recommend using pixels instead of percentages for displaying horizontal rules, as percentages will only stretch to the horizontal length of the largest content item within that same posting.
E-mail addresses entered within Manage Web Site Information should now accept all addresses with valid top-level domains (ex: .com, .net, .org, etc), including all country domains.
The Manage my Profile and Web Site Manager screens have had some minor wording and link updates.
Removed the option for column display formatting within text postings. This feature previously only worked within Netscape browsers.
A link to the Lutherans Online Clip Art Corner has been added to "Edit Posting" pages.
FTP now allows you to rename files. You can't rename folders though.
Site glitches experienced when going to lutheransonline.com instead of www.lutheransonline.com have been fixed.
Changes to online forms will now appear within Web site update E-mails. Also, the formatting of the bullets has been fixed within calendar events within these E-mails.
Site links within Web site update E-mails will now show the alias name instead of the full GID number.
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7/26/04 |
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Help menu pages have been updated with new content. |
7/22/04 |
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Added "Chapter Leader Bio" layout under the Chapters layout set. |
7/21/04 |
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Redesigned Web site update E-mail template. |
6/30/04 |
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A problem with chat not working on user Web sites has been fixed.
Also, the online form interface has been upgraded for better stability, and an issue where the last question and answer would not display within online form results has been fixed. |
6/27/04 |
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Simplified login process is live! All current users will have to reregister but existing site profiles will be transferred over with the reregistration. |
6/25/04 |
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Search results are now more accurate, with inactive or deleted pages no longer showing up in the results. Plus, any page that hasn't been modified in over two years will no longer show up in the search results. |
6/24/04 |
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Orphan Freeform files removed from the server. This should not affect any user Web sites. |
6/23/04 |
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A few updates were made to the site today:
Various event-triggered E-mail text was updated (site updated E-mails, form submission E-mails, participant approval/rejection E-mails, etc.)
Help text added for the My Web Site Profile page.
Passive mode now needs to be used when using FTP to publish files to a Freeform site. |
6/21/04 |
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Manage My Web Site Profile screen redesigned to make changing your E-mail options easier. |
6/10/04 |
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System switched to a different code base. No enhancements were made at this time. |
6/4/04 |
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Fixed an issue where new Web site creation confirmation E-mails were not getting sent. |
5/24/04 |
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A problem with new Top Frame sites displaying a nonexistant LO site as the default URL has been fixed. Instructions for updating the framed site URL now appear in this frame. |
5/21/04 |
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A problem with the search not updating properly has been fixed. |
5/19/04 |
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Three updates to the Lutherans Online Web publishing system were released today:
You can now assign a secondary page alias within the initial new page creation screen.
Several more text areas of the calendar now have a slightly larger font.
An issue where some Web sites would have a navy background on a Netscape browser has been fixed. |
5/17/04 |
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More patches and upgrades for Lutherans Online were released today:
If you have multiple Web sites in which you are an administrator or participant, you can now modify the "My Site" link in the left-navigation to either display your default site (like it worked before), or have it display a list with links to all of your associated Web sites. To update this setting, click "Manage my Profile," then "Profile" underneath "My Web Building and Participation Profile." The new option is underneath "My Site Preferences."
A bug with typing quotes into the "Web Link Description" field has been fixed.
Within the calendar, the "Event Description" field now has a slightly larger font. Also, using the pulldown menu to select a different month will now display, on the right side of the screen, all events within that month instead of just information for the first day of that month.
Other minor cosmetic changes, such as colored dots within the Web Site Manager page, the "Form Options" header graphic now displays properly, and "Mahogany" is now properly spelled. |
5/6/04 |
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Congregational Coordinator Newsletters are now available within the Chapter Mailings system for all Chapter Web sites. |
4/28/04 |
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Calendar events with an end date prior to July, 2003 have been purged from the system. |
4/22/04 |
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Several more patches were released today:
Clicking on the date number within a wall calendar will now bring up that day's events page.
Secondary page aliases are no longer case sensitive.
The user's E-mail address now properly displays on the online form results screen if a user that isn't logged in completes an online form.
A posting placement issue has been fixed when adding a new posting to the bottom of a page with multiple screens (a page that has more postings than the amount allowed per page.)
When choosing a content feed on any page besides the home page, after you choose and click Continue, the following screen is now the page you were originally editing instead of the home page. |
4/21/04 |
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A bug when changing posting layouts has been fixed. |
4/20/04 |
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On online form result E-mails, the "System handle of form submitter" now displays the first and last name instead of the user ID number.
There is currently an issue regarding FTP connections. If you receive errors when trying to FTP, change your FTP host settings to connect to "ftp://loweb01.lutheransonline.com" instead of "ftp://www.lutheransonline.com". Look for more information to follow. |
4/19/04 |
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Several patches were released today:
The user name display has been removed from various pages, including participation/administration screens within Web Site Manager and participant list postings.
Chat and future chat transcript pages will now display the first and last name instead of the user name.
The duplicate first name within parenthesis on contact information postings has been removed.
Within online form results pages, the "System login id of submitter" has been removed and the first and last name of any logged-in users that have submitted the form will now display instead of their user name.
The Calendar Event shortcut icon has been fixed. |
4/16/04 |
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A problem with logging into FTP has been fixed. |
4/15/04 |
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Orphan text files removed from the server. This should not affect any user Web sites. |
4/8/04 |
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A problem with not all Web site participants receiving E-mails from the "E-mail all participants" feature has been fixed. |
3/29/04 |
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The links posting on the Resource Links page of almost all Chapter and RFO Web sites has been switched to a similar-looking content feed posting. |
3/26/04 |
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An error in Chapter Mailings has been fixed where after clicking "Save" newsletter, if the connection is lost or if the user clicks "Stop" in the browser, a red koblet error would display. |
3/25/04 |
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3 Gigabytes worth of orphan files have been removed from the Lutherans Online server. This should not affect any existing Web sites. |
3/24/04 |
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Several patches were released today. The highlights include:
Freeform FTP is now available by using either port 21 or 2121. You can also use either passive or active mode when connecting.
Background colors now display on the "Edit Page" screen.
Multiple events on the same day within the calendar desk view now display in the proper chronological order.
Added "Title and 5 photos / files" option under Photo Album posting layouts. Layout option order has been rearranged as well, to put most commonly-used layouts at the top of each layout section.
Debug option now available. If you insert faulty code (usually involving tables or javascripts that aren't closed properly) into a posting which prevents the "Edit Posting" button from displaying on the "Edit Page" screen, add "&debug=true" to the URL Web address when you are on the "Edit Page" screen. This will allow you to update the faulty code within the posting that is causing the problem.
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3/21/04 |
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Lutherans Online servers were moved successfully from Madison to Appleton. |
3/12/04 |
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A problem with 2-column mini-calendars posting events twice or not at all has been fixed.
An error with the display of online forms has been fixed. |
3/11/04 |
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More fixes have been added to production:
Chapter administrators can no longer delete their chapter Web site. It is required to exist as part of the Chapter Newsletter process.
When deleting an online form question, a confirmation page now displays.
When uploading faulty HTML code (example, a page with a <head> but no </head> tag), a more user-friendly error screen will display.
Monthly mini-calendar postings now display from Sunday-Saturday instead of Monday-Sunday. Weekly mini-calendar postings will continue to display from Monday-Sunday.
Under "Edit Web Site Alias," the "Preview" button has been relabeled "Save." This button still functions the same, but is now more consistent with other buttons within CPS.
On the "Manage Participants" screen, if you add everyone from your search as a participant, the text "Sorry, no data matching your search criteria" no longer displays.
A "Cancel" button has been added to the "Edit Feedback Form Options" page.
Instructions have been updated within "Edit Posting" pages for correct link names.
A problem has been fixed with multiple events on the same day displaying in an improper order on wall calendar pages.
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3/9/04 |
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Ordered and unordered HTML bulleted lists are no longer a fixed font size and type.
Chapter Resource Links is now available as a content feed. |
3/8/04 |
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New posts on site message boards will be included with the regular site update E-mails.
Chapter Site of the Month launched. |
3/5/04 |
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The sites displayed in the Site Directory will no longer display deleted sites that have not been permanently removed from the Lutherans Online server (see 2/18/04 update for more information). |
3/4/04 |
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v5.5 Released. This release has upgraded features for our Chapter Mailings system, as well as CPS Web publishing enhancements, which are as follows:
Aliases for secondary pages are now available!
Example: If you would like to advertise your site calendar as http://www.lutheransonline.com/mysite/calendar, login to your site as an administrator, then click "Web Site Manager," "Manage Web Site Pages," then "Edit" under the page for which you would like to create the alias. Type in an alias at the bottom of the screen, then click "Done." You can do this for any page within your site, including publishing, Freeform, calendar, online forms and top frame pages. Your alias can be any one word without spaces or punctuation, but you cannot have duplicate alias names within the same site.
The option to remove page links on top of online form and top frame pages has been added.
A "Most Recently Created" site listing option has been added to the Site Directory.
A Web Site Logo resizing bug has been fixed, and we have also added a "Done" button to complement the already-existing "Save" button.
FTP login is no longer case-sensitive. Also, the password will no longer display in the user's FTP log.
Edit Web Site Greeting text has been removed.
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2/23/04 |
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Several small patches were released today:
Two mass updates to Chapter Web sites were made: a link to each chapter's Regional Financial Office Web site was added to the bottom of each chapter's home page, and the Chapter Newsletters heading on the Chapter Newsletters page was made left-justified instead of centered.
Under any Freeform Page Settings page, the Page Links option stands out a little more on the page.
A top frame bug has been fixed when you create a new Top Frame site, click "Edit Framed URL", type in the updated URL and click "Continue", you lose the top frame and the "top frame instructions" page displays across the entire browser. |
2/18/04 |
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Several new features have been added to Lutherans Online!
We have added the option to set the background color within pages. To change this, go into Web Site Manager, then "Manage Web Site Pages," then "Edit." Change the background color, then click "Done."
Message boards/chats can now be made public/private. Private message boards and chat rooms are only available to participants on a Web site, while public message boards and chat rooms are available to any logged-in Lutherans Online user. To change this, go into Web Site Manager, then "Manage/Configure Message Boards (or Chat Rooms)". Click "Edit," then choose public or private under "Access." All message boards and chat rooms are private by default.
Sort order for participants is now available. To update the sort order, click "Edit Page", then under your participants posting, click "Format Participants List." Click "Display what participant info?", then choose any "Sort by" checkbox to sort the data by that type. Choosing two or more options will sort by the topmost option, followed by any others below that.
Login redirect page problem on private/inactive pages has been fixed. If you clicked on a private page without having logged in, it would redirect the user after the login screen back to the site's home page. Now, it will redirect users after having logged in to the page they were originally trying to access, and not the site's home page.
Mini-calendar postings will now display dates from Monday-Sunday instead of Sunday-Saturday. This should be especially useful for church sites' weekly calendar postings so users can see events for the following Sunday.
Freeform preview page now has the same layout as the live site. Previously this only showed the content without the LO surrounding template, which would occasionally display differently compared to what would show on the live site.
Delete Web site archive has been added - once a user deletes a site, they have up to 14 days to call the Help Desk in case they would need the site back for any reason.
A calendar display bug for "Monthly weeks (Pick Days)" events is fixed.
Chapter Web site aliases that contained periods have had the periods removed. |
2/5/04 |
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All "link to parent Web sites" postings have been removed, as Web sites no longer have parent-child relationships (each site is its own site and not a related subsite of another).
Also, "Back to top" postings have been removed from all pages that haven't been edited since they were originally created. |
1/28/04 |
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Duplicate layouts have been removed from the system, and postings are now linked to one copy of the layout. If a user changes the layout, then a new copy of the layout will be made. |
1/26/04 |
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A bug where events would not display correctly if the weekend spans two months has been resolved. |
1/23/04 |
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Annual events in the calendar now have the start and end time checkboxes checked as no specific time by default. Also, annual events on users' calendars that started or ended at midnight now are set to "no specific time." |
1/22/04 |
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A patch was put in to prevent some FTP connection problems. |
1/21/04 |
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A bug with updating a site's content feeds, message board topics, chat links, chat transcript links and newsletter links has been fixed. |
1/19/04 |
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The missing asset problem (caused when a user hits STOP on their browser while in the process of adding a new posting to their site) has been resolved.
The problem with a red koblet error showing up when you copy text from Microsoft® Word and paste it into a new text posting has been fixed. |
1/15/04 |
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Several patches were released:
E-mail addresses that end with .info are now allowed in Manage Web Site Information from the Web Site Manager screen.
If you add a posting with an image, then later remove the image by clicking "Check box only if you want no image displayed," the image is now properly removed from the system.
The list of links within "Edit Page->Format Page Links->Link to Which Pages" now display in the proper order as defined within "Web Site Manager->Manage Web Site Pages."
Minor design tweaks were made to the edit posting interface. |
1/9/04 |
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A bug with the calendar link not working properly from the regular site update E-mails has been fixed. |
1/7/04 |
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Several calendar upgrades are now available. "Daily / Single day" is now split into "Single day" and "Multi day" options, which will make entering new single day calendar events easier. Also added are checkboxes for "no specific start time" or "no specific end time". And when viewing a weekly view of the calendar, if a new month begins during that week, it will now display all days within that week. Duplicate layouts were also removed from the site. |
1/5/04 |
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If you login to Lutherans Online but have yet to create a Web site, clicking "My Site" in the left-navigation now offers a more user-friendly message. |
12/31/03 |
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Community Calendar (seen at the bottom of the Lutherans Online home page) is now available as a content feed.
Also, some E-mail addresses with four characters at the end are now allowed. (example: something@somewhere.coop)
A bug with users not being able to delete their Web site has been fixed. |
12/30/03 |
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Several small design tweaks were made to a few Web Site Manager screens and Chat. |
12/22/03 |
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Cleaned up duplicate user IDs in the CPS database. |
12/18/03 |
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Fixed a missing asset problem which would occasionally generate a red koblet error when adding new postings to a page. This only affected a handful of sites within Lutherans Online. |
12/17/03 |
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The problem with some users getting a grey box error on the Create a New Custom Layout screen has been fixed. |
12/16/03 |
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Several bugs were fixed:
Pages listed as both inactive and private no longer display within page links postings.
Page links postings that have only some pages chosen for display now display in the proper order.
The Freeform problem of changing the default file and having the previous default file still display has been fixed.
Private pages no longer show up within search results.
Duplicate layouts within "My Layouts" have been hidden from the interface.
A problem with logging into FTP has been fixed as well. |
12/10/03 |
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Underscores are no longer allowed within site aliases. |
12/4/03 |
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v5.4 Released. The newest version of CPS contained the addition of Chapter Newsletters to Chapter Web sites. Chapter leaders can now create their mailings online and once they are approved, they will not only get mailed to members' homes within their area, but will also immediately appear on their Chapter Web site under the newly-created Chapter Newsletters page. |
11/24/03 |
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Images now are restricted to 1024x768 pixels in size or lower. If you upload an image inside a posting that is larger than this, it will automatically shrink the image to these specifications. |
11/21/03 |
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Fixed a problem with red koblet errors showing up when adding new postings to a page from a Macintosh computer. |
11/20/03 |
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A problem with long content feeds not displaying properly has been fixed.
Events within your calendar will no longer display "starting at 12:00a" if the start and end times are the same, and the text displayed on multi-day calendar entries has been tweaked.
Problems with copying and pasting text into a posting from a Word document that includes special characters is fixed. |
11/18/03 |
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Another problem with NULL showing up in site mini-calendar postings has been fixed. |
11/14/03 |
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ELCA News Webfeed and current Lutherans Online poll are now available to be placed on your Web site as a content feed. |
11/13/03 |
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More bugs were fixed, including calendar events that had "null" in the number of days field, and a publishing problem with the Create a Custom Layout feature, which wouldn't work if special characters were included as part of the posting name.
The online form display results page was adjusted as well for design.
Calendar events on the "All Events" page are now sorted in descending order from latest to earliest. |
11/12/03 |
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A bug with multipart postings and a calendar "NULL" problem have been fixed. If you are still having issues with items not displaying properly on your page, you may need to go in and resave the page before it will work properly. We apologize for this inconvenience. |
11/11/03 |
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SQL errors when updating calendar entries has been fixed. |
11/10/03 |
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A couple bugs regarding "koblet errors" and image postings that were missing assets were fixed. |
11/7/03 |
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Punctuation and grammar updates were made within the calendar. |
11/6/03 |
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A couple calendar bugs were fixed regarding the desk view left-navigational display. |
11/5/03 |
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"Daily / Single day" calendar entry form now has "How often does this event repeat?" question.
Other small calendar and Web publishing tweaks were made as well. |
11/4/03 |
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Problem with forms updating properly has been resolved. |
11/3/03 |
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Problem with deleting Freeform files is fixed, as well as two small online forms issues regarding the "Time Submitted" date on the "View Form Results" page, and the top calendar link from the online forms main page. |
10/31/03 |
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Several bugs were fixed, including Freeform file editing and uploading, online form result E-mails, top frame site creation, and stability issues. |
10/30/03 |
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Problem with NULL showing up in content postings has been fixed. |
10/29/03 |
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v5.3 Released. This latest update to CPS includes a major simplification of the calendar section, a redesign of online form sections, and tweaks to the Web site administration console, Content Feeds and Site Directory. The Site Directory page within Lutherans Online now includes a "Channels" listing from the pull-down menu. Also, when adding a new posting on a publishing page, "Posting Name" is no longer a required field. If you don't type anything into this box, it will autofill with the current date and time. |
10/7/03 |
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Chapter feedback forms now have the proper contact assigned for E-mailed responses.
The character limit for site aliases has been raised to 64 characters from 32.
The problem with ELCA sites not displaying the logo in the left-navigation has been fixed. |
9/29/03 |
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Bug with chat rooms fixed. If a non-logged-in user enters a chat room on a user's Web site, it will no longer error out, but instead will redirect them to the login page. |
9/25/03 |
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Chapters channel renamed to Chapters/RFO. |
9/22/03 |
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Chapters channel redesigned and almost 1,400 Chapter and 32 RFO Web sites were added. |
8/7/03 |
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Two small bugs were patched, both involving errors when changing site information from within Web Site Manager -> Manage Web Site Information. |
7/22/03 |
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Web site aliases are no longer case sensitive. This means that if your site is www.lutheransonline.com/MyChurch, having your alias typed in as MYCHURCH, mychurch or MyChurch will all now take you to your site. |
6/10/03 |
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Updated section header graphics within Web Site Manager pages to the new page names introduced in CPSv5.2. |
6/9/03 |
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Fixed a bug where the page would occasionally hang when uploading a file from a Freeform page. |
6/6/03 |
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Several bugs have been fixed, including the "E-Mail Participants" feature sending out to not only participants and administrators, but also those whose participation status is still pending.
Resolved the duplicate "http://" reference example on the "Edit Web Site URL Alias" page within Web Site Manager. |
6/5/03 |
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v5.25 Released. The latest update to CPS includes many enhancements to the Web Site Manager. Most specifically, the e-mail Participants, Manage Administrative Roles, Change Synod Affiliation and Change Channels sections have been updated and simplified. You can now add extra e-mail addresses if you wish to send an e-mail to people that are not currently participants on your Web site. Also, the option of choosing a contact for your Web site has been simplified. A few smaller bugs in the system have also been fixed. |
5/14/03 |
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Several bugs have been fixed, including the "Edit Framed URL" button on top-frame pages, updating feedback forms, and instances where images would not appear within Freeform pages. |
5/6/03 |
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v5.2 Released. Many new enhancements have been made to the Web site publishing process. The most notable include a redesign to the Web Site Manager page and a simplification of the options within Web Site Manager when updating your site. Also, you no longer need "/lo" when referring to your site. http://www.lutheransonline.com/mysite will now also take you to your site, although adding the /lo will still work properly as before. |
4/11/03 |
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LCMS: New Jersey and States: Wyoming were added as subchannels. |
4/8/03 |
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v5.1 Released. Most of these changes were with our internal administrative interface; however, the Create a Site process has been enhanced with several new features as well. The changes most noticeable are that you can now select a "Web Site Alias" as part of the site creation process, and users now have a maximum of five channels to associate with their Web site. Two steps in the Create a Site process were also eliminated: sites now default to having the initial creator of the Web site also assigned as the main administrator and contact, and the option to make your site a "Related Web Site" has been removed. |
4/2/03 |
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The search index will now be updated daily instead of weekly. We have also decided to remove all pages from the index that haven't been updated since they were initially built. This will prevent generic template pages with no content from appearing in search results. |
3/3/03 |
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Pages found using our search engine now include online form pages. |
2/10/03 |
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Netscape 7 problem fixed where the system wouldn't allow you to relogin after already having logged in and out in that same browser session. |
2/7/03 |
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Removed multiple "NO LOCATION" choices from the add new calendar events tool. Note: you may have gotten an E-mail on Saturday, February 8th, stating that your calendar events were updated. This E-mail was auto-generated because of this update, and no other information was removed or changed from your site. |
1/28/03 |
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Fixed bug with Mapquest address postings where the map would show the city, but not the exact address of the location specified. |
1/22/03 |
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v5.03 Released. Fixed bug regarding "koblet error" that would appear when improper html code was entered within a Freeform page (such as <font size=> ). |
1/21/03 |
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Deleted 262 AAL Branch Web sites - look for Chapter sites to follow in the coming months! |
1/20/03 |
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Removed all non-reoccuring calendar entries dated on or before 10/31/02 from all user web sites. Note: some calendar location information may have been lost during this cleanup. We apologize for any inconvenience. |
1/3/03 |
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Removed Fraternal Branches from the Lutherans Online left navigation, footer and Site Map. |
12/26/02 |
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Removed many unused shared layouts from the system. |
12/19/02 |
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Fixed problem with "(NONE)" showing up in certain calendar entries that didn't specify an event type. |
12/18/02 |
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Removed many unused orphan posting layouts from the CPS system. |
12/13/02 |
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Fixed problem with the top section of top-frame pages displaying incorrectly. |
12/12/02 |
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Removed "Locate your AAL Representative," "Fraternal Highlights," and "Locate your Financial Associate" pages from all user web sites. Links to these will now be available from the home page of Lutherans Online, the Help Center and www.thrivent.com. |
12/11/02 |
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v5.02 Released. Fixed problems with Freeform links to other pages not working properly. Fixed the problem with posting header text not centering. |
12/6/02 |
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Fixed the problem with duplicate E-mails being generated when a person registers with Lutherans Online. |
11/12/02 |
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v5.01 Released. Fixed File Transfer Protocol (FTP) problems. Problem one was with the FTP host name and the other was a problem with uploading images to the server. |
11/6/02 |
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v5.0 Released. Lutherans Online Community Publishing System (CPS) servers moved from remote site to Thrivent Financial. Several bug fixes were included in the move, including quicker response time within the Web site publishing system. Also fixed the problem with the letter "t" being inserted as the title/headline name of a previously untitled posting title/headline. |
10/11/02 |
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New search engine makes its debut, providing more accurate and faster search results! |
9/25/02 |
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Reorganized items in the left-navigation of the site, including renaming "Web Site Building Information" to "Help Center". Added "Create a Web Site" to the top-navigation of Lutherans Online. |