Service Pack 9 Readies for its Debut

(Members Only Software, Inc.)
For the last few months we've had a few users up and running on Members Only service pack 9. It's looking good and within the next month we plan to start rolling it out to all of our users. Here's a taste of some of the the goodies you can expect in the next few weeks.

Improved HTML Email Editor.


The Members Only email blast now sports a greatly enhanced wysiwyg HTMLeditor. Just one of its smart features: when you insert a picture from your local computer into an HMTL email, it is automatically uploaded to your web server to be linked to your outgoing mail. And like always, it supports complete personalization and database merge into your emails.

Enhanced Grids:
Lots of times the best way to look at your information is in grids or tables. That's why Excel is so indispensible. The grid displays in Members Only have taken a great leap forward in this service pack. Now you have the option to turn on or off multi-line display in any grid, sort a grid on more than one column, and perform a text search within the grid.  You can instantly copy any grid from Members Only into Excel, and you can tell it to drag along other fields from that table that were not even shown on the Members Only page!

Workflow Templates
Many of our users rely on the Members Only Tickler system to track tasks related to their Members, Donors, or Events. Now you can use these ticklers for more than simple to-do items. Starting in SP9 you can create task templates for repeated multi-step tasks such as preparing for a board meeting. The use of templates allows you to insert an entire set of related tickler items with a few clicks.

Business Rule Management for Web Registration
Organizations rely more and more on online registration for their meetings. But all meetings are not alike. So our API for putting these meetings on the web has had to include more switches to manage the individual business rules for each meeting. The Web Configuration page allows you to set various options that are used to control how the meeting appears on the web and what choices are available to the registrant on the site.