Also, there is now more room to enter information into your custom fields.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Floating window, more custom data room
In ContribuTrac, you can check off rows you want to report on, or solicit in various ways. Sometimes, if you select a large number of contacts, it's useful to know how many are checked. This information is now displayed, along with an option to create a list from the checked contacts.
Also, there is now more room to enter information into your custom fields.
Also, there is now more room to enter information into your custom fields.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Quick View
Today we added the Quick View to ContribuTrac. This is an alternate to the spreadsheet-like Grid that is the staple of ContribuTrac. The Quick view is leaner, searches faster, and shows selected contacts' detail in a pane on the right, like so:
You can edit or add new contacts here, and use the check column to mark contacts for emailing or merging. The tools available are:
For those of you with large databases (6000+ contacts), Quick View will load & search faster than the full featured grid. For quick contact lookup, or edits, Quick View is a good choice.
You can edit or add new contacts here, and use the check column to mark contacts for emailing or merging. The tools available are:
For those of you with large databases (6000+ contacts), Quick View will load & search faster than the full featured grid. For quick contact lookup, or edits, Quick View is a good choice.
Introduction
Long overdue, this blog will cover ongoing feature enhancements to ContribuTrac. The purpose is to keep regular users informed, in the hopes they'll leverage the new additions to make their campaigning lives easier. I hope to also post tutorials on important topics.
The development of a piece of software is incremental, as the amount of time and effort is proportional to features. The initial launch of ContribuTrac was a small one, with just a couple of users. It started off running off of a Access database, with little more than data entry, the 'grid', and some Call Sheets.
Today it is a full-fledged solicitation machine, complete with Email Blaster, Document Merging, customized lists, house-holding, unlimited custom fields, codes, affiliations, and more. The database is industry titan Microsoft SQL Server, hosted online, so your data is accessible anywhere.
This is the ContribuTrac envisioned years ago, and that is why, now, the blog begins. The software is stable and robust enough to warrant a public presence.
For current users, I hope you'll find value in these posts, and for onlookers, maybe you'll see something that tempts you enough to get on board!
The development of a piece of software is incremental, as the amount of time and effort is proportional to features. The initial launch of ContribuTrac was a small one, with just a couple of users. It started off running off of a Access database, with little more than data entry, the 'grid', and some Call Sheets.
Today it is a full-fledged solicitation machine, complete with Email Blaster, Document Merging, customized lists, house-holding, unlimited custom fields, codes, affiliations, and more. The database is industry titan Microsoft SQL Server, hosted online, so your data is accessible anywhere.
This is the ContribuTrac envisioned years ago, and that is why, now, the blog begins. The software is stable and robust enough to warrant a public presence.
For current users, I hope you'll find value in these posts, and for onlookers, maybe you'll see something that tempts you enough to get on board!
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