Hayley Whitworth • Jul 18, 2022

The newly refreshed Classroom Dashboard is loaded with options to help you manage your classes. From viewing those who are on the way to communicating with the parents of those in your class, the Classroom Dashboard is a great tool for your busy Sunday mornings.

 

For help with your Classroom Dashboard, reach out to [email protected] 

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Dania Lane • Jul 14, 2022

We have created a new dashboard to designate which fields are required when someone is adding a new record or editing an existing record. You can allow users with certain roles (i.e. Finance or Staff) to override the rules. You also have the ability to prevent certain fields from being edited (unless blank). Here’s a glance at the new dashboard:

This new setting replaces the following settings: AddPersonRequiredFields, EditPersonRequiredFields and UsePersonValidationScript.

Dania Lane • Jul 12, 2022

We’re steadily enhancing Check-In to ensure your Sundays remain as smooth (and fun) as possible! We have introduced several new features that will elevate the experience for your staff and church goers:

Check-In Keypad Text

You can now easily edit the text that shows above the entry box, or leave it blank to use text from your background image instead.

Filter By Grade

You now have the option to filter classes at Check-In for guests based on Grade in addition to Birthday. This can be updated within the Involvement or on the Involvement Search page.

 

Restrict By IP

Lastly, we have added a new setting called Restrict Check-In by IP. This will restrict Check-In to only the IP addresses listed in the setting.

Learn more about these Check-In features in the help articles below:

Dania Lane • Jul 12, 2022

Our beloved Status Flag feature has seen a facelift! Status Flags are customizable and more user-friendly. There is no limit to how many Status Flags you can create. Flag color can be chosen from one of eight preset colors which can be customized as well, and the colors will appear as a Badge (with which you are likely already familiar) or a Picture Border or both!

Status Flags do more than alert you of a person’s current status on a particular day; they can work in tandem with our new Engagement Score system, allowing churches to measure and track engagement over time using Status Flags.

Learn more about Status Flags and Engagement Score in these help articles:

Dania Lane • Jul 08, 2022

Our Classroom Dashboard has been updated with additional features! You can now easily see children that are “Present” in the class as well as those who are “On The Way.”

New menu items including Check-Out, Edit Note, and Move Child are also available. Along with using a security code label or QR code, class leaders with the Check-Out role may use the Dashboard to facilitate Check-Out.

 

Learn more:

Chris Dolan • Jul 06, 2022

Recently TouchPoint announced a new Administrative Setting called GradeUpdateDate. This setting is not currently functional , but will be effective Thursday, July 7th.

The default value is set for July 1st, which means that the Grade field will not update this year unless you set this to a future date.

For this year, you have 3 options:

1. Do nothing – No grades will update this year, but next year on July 1, all grades (except any that start with “Class of” will increase one year).
2. Adjust it to a date after the current date – Grades will then update automatically on that date (it is recommended to then reset it to the date you would want these to update next year so that you don’t forget to adjust it).
3. Adjust it to a date in the past – Grades will not update this year, but they will update automatically on this date next year.

Note : if you have previously set this date in the past, you will need to modify it when this update goes out since we had to reset all current settings.

Reports : This release will also update the following reports to start using the new Grade Field: Blue Toolbar reports (including the Excel export, Attendance (Main Fellowship), Custom Report, Member Export, and Group Export) and Children reports will now reflect the Grade from the new grade on a person’s record or from the Grade question in a registration.

Note : Please consider carefully how or if you use the Grade question in a registration. You may want to ask for “current” grade rather than upcoming grade to avoid a “double promotion.”


Hayley Whitworth • Jul 06, 2022

Get some time back in your day! Configure Reply Words to automatically engage with your church goers. Text Message Reply Words are a great way to keep people connected. Check out this episode of TouchPointers to learn more about this TouchPoint feature:

For personalized help with Reply Words, reach out to [email protected] 

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Chris Dolan • Jul 05, 2022

Release Notes

Our first July release is scheduled to be deployed tomoritem night (Wednesday, July 6th) at or after 10 PM Central Time. As covered on the New Features Webinar last week, this release includes a lot of new items as well as updates to existing features.

Here are the details of everything that is being released:

  • Status Flags – This update includes some major changes to Status Flags aimed at making them easier to set up and manage. You also have some exciting new features like being able to set the badge colors, optionally choose to make a badge a picture border, accessing historical flag information, and creating as many Status Flags as you find useful.
  • Engagement Charts – There is a new tab that allows a church to measure and track engagement over time using Status Flags. In case you missed the May webinar on Measuring Engagement, you can check it out here or read our documentation (soon) for how this new feature works.
  • Tab Changes – In order to make room for the Engagement tab and the Processes tab (coming soon!), we have combined the Membership Docs tab into the Membership Tab (permissions and access remain the same) and we’ve given you the option to turn off the Comments tab. With the release of our newly rebuilt Tasks & Notes feature, the Comments tab should not be needed. Watch for a blog in the coming weeks with instructions for how to migrate your existing Comments to Notes using the import tool.
  • Grade – The Auto Update for Grade is now available. Read the blog about Grade (coming soon) for what you need to do to take advantage of this feature (or wait until next year). The standard exports have been updated to now use the new grade field and this field is an option in the custom report builder as well.
  • Updates to Classroom Dashboard – The Classroom Dashboard received some major updates including a slightly cleaner layout that separates people who are “On the way” from those that are already “Marked Present.” Staff or volunteers also now have the ability to move a child to another class, update the note, check the child out, message a parent or view their details–all right there from the Dashboard itself!
  • Check-in Changes – There are three enhancements we’ve made to Check-In for this release: 1) The ability to edit the text on the Check-In screen. Want to use the background image to display the text? Simply change the text to be blank. 2) You can now filter the Visit or Join Class list by Grade in addition to using DOB. 3) Lastly, for added security, you can restrict the IP addresses that you want to allow access to Check-In. If you use this Admin Setting, please make sure your sites are using a static IP address and that you include the IP for your backup internet source if you have one.
  • One Page Forms – We are close to finalizing the new One Page Form registration type. Watch out in the blog for an announcement (coming soon!) about this new feature being in a public beta and available to all partner churches.
  • Process Builder – We are making great progress on the Process Builder, and this release puts some of the new features into production where we can continue to test this new tool internally. It will remain hidden for our partner churches until this Fall when we plan to make it available. We will have workshops on this new tool at our annual Summit , so join us and learn more!
  • Limit Editing/Hide Fields – We have a new and super easy way to manage what fields should be required when someone is adding a new record or editing an existing record. You can allow users with certain roles (i.e. Finance or Staff) to override the rules. You also have the ability to prevent certain fields from being edited (unless blank). Watch out for a blog for more details and a link to the documentation.
  • Restrict Address Column in Involvements by Role – There is a new custom access role that allows you to hide the address column for certain roles. This is perfect if you don’t want OrgLeadersOnly to have access to people’s address for example.
  • Request Account Deletion in Mobile App – Apple is now requiring that apps give users the ability to request their account to be deleted. We have added this to our next app release and will be updating our documentation with recommendations on what your church should do if someone clicks on this option. Watch out for a blog with more details about how this feature works and what you should do.

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