Prayer Campaigns v2

We are happy to announce that in this new version the Prayer Campaigns plugin is ready for Ramadan 2023 and Ongoing Prayer Campaigns.

Ongoing prayer campaigns

We could already create prayer campaigns for fixed time periods (like Ramadan). But more than a month wasn't ideal.
With v2 we have introduced "ongoing" prayer campaigns. Set a start date, no end end, and see how many people we can mobilize to pray.
Prayer "warriors" will be able to sign up for 3 months and then have the opportunity to extend and keep on praying.

Ramadan 2023

We'd like to take this opportunity to invite you to join in praying and mobilizing prayer for the Muslim world during Ramadan in 2023.

To mobilize 27/4 prayer for the people or place God has put on your heart the process involves:

1. Signing up on https://campaigns.pray4movement.org
2. Customizing your page
3. Inviting your network to pray

See https://pray4movement.org/ramadan-champions-2023/ for more details or join one of the existing networks here: https://pray4movement.org/ramadan-2023/

In October, we held the first ever Disciple.Tools Summit. It was a great experimental gathering that we intend to repeat in the future. We want to share what happened, what the community thought about it and invite you into the conversation. Sign up to be notified about future events at Disciple.Tools/summit.

We’ve captured all the notes from the key breakout sessions and hope to make them public soon. We used a framework of discussing the current state of a given topic and what is good about it. We then continued into a discussion around what is wrong, missing or confusing. Conversations that led us to several “We must” statements for each topic, which will help lead the community forward.

Starting in 2023, we plan to hold regular community calls to demo new features and use cases.

Avoid duplicates on form submittion

We've added a new option to reduce the number of duplicate contacts in your D.T instance.

Normally, when a contact submits their email and/or phone number a new contact record is created in Disciple.Tools. Now when the form is submitted we have the option to check if that email or phone number already exists in the system. If no matches are found, it creates the contact record as usual. If it finds the email or phone number, then it updates the existing contact record instead and adds the submitted info.

The form submittion will @mention the assigned to all record the form contents:

• More Robust Facebook Sync using crons
• Sync works on more setups
• Faster contact creation
• Using less resources

New Feature

Use shortcodes to display your webform on your public facing webside.

If you have a public facing wordpress website and have the webform plugin installed and set up (see Instructions)

You can then use the provided shortcode on any of your pages instead of the iframe.

Displays:

Attributes

• id: required
• button_only: A boolean (true/false) attribute. If "true", only a button will be displayed and it will link to the webform on its own page
• campaigns: Tags that will be passed on to the "Campaigns" field on the new D.T contact

See Campaigns docs form more information on how to use the campaigns feature

Chromium based browsers now come with an experimental Dark-Mode feature for every site one visits. This also applies to Disciple.Tools and if you want to make your dashboard look high-tech, this is your chance.

In order to enable Dark-Mode, follow these steps:

1. In a Chromium based browser such as Chrome, Brave, etc. write this in the address bar:
   chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark
2. In the dropdown, select one of the Enabled options
3. Relaunch the browser

There are several variants. No need to click them all, you can see them below!

Default

Enabled

Enabled with simple HSL-based inversion

Enabled with simple CIELAB-based inversion

Enabled with simple RGB-based inversion

Enabled with selective image inversion

Enabled with selective inversion of non-image elements

Enabled with selective inversion of everything

Remember you can always opt-out by setting the dar-mode option back to Default.

• Language support for “de”, “hi”, “ja”, “mk”, “th”, and “tl”
• Import Phone Contacts
• Link support for Maps and Social Media
• Lots of bug fixes!

https://github.com/DiscipleTools/disciple-tools-mobile-app/releases/tag/v1.9.3

• Language support for “bs”, “my”, “ro” and “vi”
• Lots of bug fixes!

https://github.com/DiscipleTools/disciple-tools-mobile-app/releases/tag/v1.9.2

• Fix for searching via API-based autocomplete
• Fix for viewing Custom Filters
• Fix to include blank option for dropdown option fields (so as to not default to 1st option and inadvertently save upon Edit)

https://github.com/DiscipleTools/disciple-tools-mobile-app/releases/tag/v1.9.1

Disciple.Tools is frequently a tool of choice for media to movement practitioners. A collaborative effort to learn how Media to Movements (MTM) efforts are implemented around the world is being conducted through a large scale survey.  As part of the Disciple.Tools community, we want to gain insight from your experience.

If you haven’t, please complete this anonymous survey by Monday, February 8 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern London time (UTC -0)?

This will take 15-30 minutes depending on the length of your answers. Please make sure you have enough time to answer every question. 

It is possible that one or more of your teammates are receiving the same request to complete this survey. We welcome more than one response per team or organization. If you get the same request from others, please fill out only one survey.

Regardless of your experience level, the information you provide will lead to insights about what works and where there are gaps in implementing MTM. These insights will help everyone use MTM more effectively.

Feel free to pass on this survey link to others you have trained in MTM. If those whom you trained are unable to do the survey in English – could you serve as an advocate for their opinions by helping them fill out the survey? Everyone’s contribution is important. 

Our goal is to release the results of the survey by April 7, 2021. The results from last year’s survey have been broadly distributed and have helped improve MTM training methods around the world.

The organizations co-sponsoring this survey are:

 Thank you for your willingness to share your MTM experiences.

– The Disciple.Tools team