Ability to create contacts (v1.20)

This update lets the user create contacts on the “User Contact Updates” and the “Sub-Assigned” magic links.

ENABLE THE FEATURE

From the “links” scheduler:

On the Sub-Assigned template:

Read only fields (v1.19)

On magic link templates, make some fields as “readonly”. This will display the field on the magic link, but keep the field from being edited.

CONFIGURING

IN ACTION

Questions or comments? Join the forum: https://community.disciple.tools/category/9/magic-links-plugin

General

Disciple.Tools uses notifications to let users know something happened on their records. Notifications are normally sent through the web interface and over email.

Notifications look like:

• You have been assigned contact John Doe
• @Corsac mentioned you on contact John Doe saying: “Hey @Ahmed, we met with John yesterday and gave him a bible”
• @Corsac, an update is requested on Mr O,Nubs.

Disciple.Tools is now able to send these notifications out using SMS text and WhatsApp messages! This functionality is built on and requires using the Disciple.Tools Twilio plugin.

A WhatsApp notification will look like this:

Setup

To setup your instance to send SMS and WhatsApp notifications, you need to:

• Get a Twilio account and buy a number and create a messaging service
• Setup a WhatsApp profile if you want to use WhatsApp
• Install and configure the Disciple.Tools Twilio plugin

Users will need to:

• Add their phone number to the Work Phone field in their D.T profile settings for SMS messages
• Add their WhatsApp number to the Work WhatsApp field in their D.T profile settings for WhatsApp messages
• Enable which notifications they want to receive through each messaging channel

Please see the documentation for help setting up and configuring it in Disciple.Tools.

Community

Love these new features? Please join us with a financial gift.

Follow progress and share ideas in the Disciple.Tools community: https://community.disciple.tools/category/18/twilio-sms-whatsapp

Plugin link: https://disciple.tools/plugins/disciple-tools-storage

This new plugin builds the way for users to be able to securely upload images and files and sets up the API for developers to use.

The first step is connecting Disciple.Tools to your favorite S3 service (see instructions).
Then Disciple.Tools will be able to upload and display images and files.

We’ve started this use case:

• User avatars. You can upload your own avatar (these aren’t yet displayed in user lists)

We want to see these use cases:

• Saving Contact and Group pictures
• Using pictures in the comments section
• Using voice messages in the comments section
• and more!

Follow progress and share ideas in the Disciple.Tools community: https://community.disciple.tools/category/17/d-t-storage

Prayer campaigns v4, multiple prayer campaigns at the same time.

Have you ever wanted to have multiple prayer campaigns running at the same time? Have you ever wanted to go back to old campaigns and see the stats or access the prayer fuel?

Lets say you have a ongoing prayer campaign with a landing page running at pray4france.com. Now you want to also run a separate campaign for easter, what do you do? Before you had to set up a new Disciple.Tools instance or turn your wordpress install into a multisite and create a new subsite. Now all you need to do is create a new campaign.

You'll be able to run multiple campaigns from the same place:

• pray4france.com/ongoing <- pray4france.com pointing to this one
• pray4france.com/easter2023
• pray4france.com/easter2024

With this version you also get:

• Editing page content from the front end
• Custom fields in the sign up tool
• A campaign creator role for just managing certain campaigns
• A form for contacting the campaign admin

Pictures proving awesomeness

Edit page content directly

Custom fields

Add custom text or checkbox fields

Campaign creator role

Invite a user and give them the campaign creator role. This new user will only have access to the campaigns their are assigned to.

The Contact Us page

Introducing Prayer Campaigns Version 3!

What's new?

• New sign up tool
• Weekly strategy
• New Profile page
• Better re-subscribe workflow

Details

New interface and weekly sign up option

We've upgraded the interface where you sign up for prayer times and we've added the support for weekly prayer strategies. Previously you had to sign up to pray every day, or choose just certain times to pray.

Now, with the weekly strategy, one prayer fuel page is needed for the whole week and you can chose to sign up to pray once a week, for example every Monday morning at 7:15am.

These changes also open the door for other campaign strategies, like monthly prayer campaigns or a quantity of prayer goal.

Account Page and Extending a Commitment

Once you've signed up to pray you can manage your prayer times on your "Account" page. This page includes the new sign up interface, an upgraded calendar, a new section to manage your daily and weekly prayer commitments and more account settings. You'll come here to manage notifications, confirm that you are still actively praying with the campaign, to sign up for more prayer times or to change existing prayer commitments.

Translation and Prayer Campaigns v4

We could use YOUR help translating the new interface! See https://pray4movement.org/docs/translation/

Look ahead: More features coming soon in v4! The main one being the ability to run multiple campaigns and landing pages at the same time.

Please help support ongoing development and work on v4: https://give.pray4movement.org/campaigns

Praise, comments or questions? Join the community forum: https://community.disciple.tools/category/15/prayer-campaigns

Join us in finishing the Layers Mapping Project.

Answer questions like: 

• Where is the nearest multiplier to a contact?
• Where are the active groups? 
• Where are new contacts coming from?
• etc

More about this project

Pick and choose what data you want to display on the map as different “Layers”.
For example you can add:

• Contacts with the Status: “New” as one layer.
• Contacts with the “Has Bible” as another layer.
• and Users as a third layer.

Each layer will show up as a different color on the map allowing you to see different data points in relation to each other.

Invest today!

Help us reach the goal of raising $10,000 for this feature:

https://give.disciple.tools/layers-mapping

Join us in celebrating the release of the Disciple.Tools make.com (formerly integromat) integration! See the integration page on make.com.

This integrations lets other apps connect to Disciple.Tools. This first version is limited to the creation of contact or groups records.

A couple possible scenarios:

• Google Forms. Create a contact record when a google form is filled out.
• Create a contact record for each new mailchimp subscriber.
• Create a group when a certain slack message is written.
• Endless possibilites.

See setup video and further documentation.

Find this integration useful? Have questions? Let us know in the github discussions section.

Scheduling and Subassigned Templates

Automatic Link Scheduling

This upgrade lets you chose the next time the links will automatically be sent. The Frequency settings will determine when the subsequent runs will happen.

Subassined Contacts Template

We have a contact record for our coworker Alex. This feature create a magic link for Alex to update the contacts that are subassigned to him.

Alex's Magic Link

New Features

• Redirect on webform submit
• Custom multi-select checkboxes
• Page the webform was submitted on
• Magic Link Webform

Option to redirect on success

Have a special landing page you'd like users to go to after submitting their form? Now you can! Just add the url to the webform settings and when the user submits the form, they will be redirected to that page.

Custom Multiselect Checkboxes

Add a field with multiple Selectable Checkboxes

To create, click the "Add Other Fields" and select "Multi-select checkboxes". Then add the options.

Page the webform was submitted on.

This will help you if you are using the webform on a remote site as a shortcode.

Magic Link Webform page

Previously the direct link to a webform looked like this:

http://multisite.local/wp-content/plugins/disciple-tools-webform/public/form.php?token56463d170366445db4b6e0f7c1f7dbc7

It would sometimes get blocked by security plugins. It now looks like:

http://multisite.local/webform/ml/56463d170366445db4b6e0f7c1f7dbc7

Do you LOVE CSVs?

Well... importing a CSV into Disciple.Tools just got better.

Introducing: Contact Duplicate Checking!

I'll set the stage. I just imported 1000 contacts with email address into Disciple.Tools. Yay!

But wait... I forgot that I also wanted to import the phone number column as well. Ok, now let me DELETE the 1000 contacts and start again.

But wait! What's this?

I can upload the CSV again and let Disciple.Tools find the contact by the email address and update it instead of creating a new one! While I'm at it, I'll add a tags column to the CSV and a 'import_2023_05_01' tag to all the contacts so I can refer back to them if needed.

And here are some of the previous updates

Geolocate Addresses

If you have a Mapbox or Google mapping key installed,

Then we can add a few addresses to our CSV and have Discple.Tools geocode them as they come in. One advantage is letting us show the records on maps in the Metrics section.