Salsa Updates Blog

Building software is a bit like building IKEA furniture. Towards the end you can see the chair/desk/cabinet come into form, but it's not quite done. You think it's done because it "looks" done. But, then you ask yourself, if it is done than why do I have seven screws, three wooden plugs, two allen wrenches, and some bolts leftover? And whose hand is that?

Here is todays installment in our ode to Ignacio Piñeiro. Expect to see these changes by around 7pm this evening.

- can now target based on percentages
- can now edit full HTML of email blasts
- some many updates to public facing pages we need to shake a stick at them because they are multiplying. And they are hungry.
- tackled a pernicious bug that booted you out of the system after saving reports
- fixed tax status issue on recurring donations
- flipped the min and max
- got a haircut
- documentation is linked to from all dashboards. check yo'self b4 you wreck yo'self
- searching from the widget on the support dashboard is now hunky dory
- querying on event status is now salsa-refic

Dear Beta Testers,

Less than 100 hours are left till we launch Salsa!

Here is the latest list of things that have happened at the DIA Ranch:
- improved thumbnail reloading
- added status to online action lists
- added subject line to step 3 of create an email blast
- fixed bug when trying to export event attendees
- fixed issue with custom reports that require user to input variables
- interests have been converted to tags with the prefix interests:
- can now add supporters successfully via the supporter dashboard
- tags are now "sticky" on form based pages
- fixed issue with content not saving correctly on pages with more than one instance of the HTML editor
- fixed link issue with directories
- fixed navigation issue around events sub links, linking to chapters look and feel
- fixed spacing issue with navigation and sub, sub menu
- squashed bug not allowing for returns in letter content of online actions
- able to now remove folks from groups on the supporter pages
- ordering custom fields by order number now
- fixed issue where search would fail if escape characters were entered
- storefront items listed as multiselect box
- source is now correctly listed on supporter summary page

Dear Campaign Managers,

As you know, DemocracyInAction is transitioning to the tool we're calling "Salsa" -- a new user interface that dramatically extends your capabilities.  In the upcoming weeks, we'll be working with you to shift your organization's operations completely over to Salsa, and I want to be sure you know just what to expect.

First, the official release starts next Thursday, March 15 -- and we do hope you'll join us at our party to celebrate the occasion!  It will be more of a progression of the rollout process already underway, than a one-time transformation.

What this means is that public documentation and training will move exclusively to Salsa at that time (and all new organizations joining the DIA community will be set up on Salsa).  We'll have a variety of user support resources that will roll out around the release, and beginning the week of March 19, we'll offer a series of webinars to help current DIA users transition to Salsa.  We'll also be making a number of road trips this spring to provide in-person trainings, and ... 

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01:28 PM Mar 07, 2007 - 0 comments permalink

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Salsa Beta Update 3.07.07

- fixed mouseover issues and "crazy ivan" navigation problems
- improved caching of reports
- ability to remove tags from objects
- fixed issues around email blast summary where it would display errors
- can now search on full names
- can now search on events
- fixed issue where saving items on one tab would push you out to a different tab
- added question text next to questions
- tags are now sticky
- questionnaires now display questions properly 

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01:17 PM Mar 07, 2007 - 0 comments permalink

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Salsa Update 3.05.07

Dear Testers,

I hope you all had a great weekend. Here's the Salsa news of the day: 

- now properly displaying clicked links per email
- fixed bug where template assignments from current system would not carry over into salsa
- recurring donations are now editable
- fixed display and editing of photo libraries
- fixed displays of custom fields and multiple choice items
- fixed bug where deleting a template would result in a 404
- hid display of "funky" items that would appear on step 6 of events
- set fixed required items when creating donation page
- removed broken "add a supporter" sticky. It'll come back when it is fixed.
- automatically adding a title bar to stickies
- fixed weird wrapping on supporter standard fields
- added error checking on report creation 

 

Happy Testing! 

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01:26 PM Mar 05, 2007 - 0 comments permalink

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Salsa Beta Update 3.01.07

Dear Testers,

Here are the updates for today, brought to you by the letter S.

- improved layout for listings
- improved error message display on login page
- improved reply manager login
- fixed bug when exporting questionaires
- fixed nasty and odd little bug where users could not edit event times
- no longer allowing users to edit donations status, pnrefs, amounts, etc.
- fixed exporting of questionnaire data
- fixed 404 error when selecting templates
- broke out events as a separate tab

 

Happy Testing! 

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Mara
04:30 PM Mar 01, 2007 - 0 comments permalink

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Time to Salsa!

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