Attention all Disciple.Tools users!

We are happy to announce the release of our new survey collection and reporting plugin.

This tool helps ministries collect and present the activity of their team members, enabling you to track both lead and lag metrics. With regular collection from the field, you’ll get better data and trends than sporadic and infrequent collection.

This plugin gives each team member their own form to report their activity, and automatically sends them a link to the form every week. You’ll be able to see a summary of each member’s activity and give each member a summary of their activity on their dashboard.

Additionally, this plugin allows you to work and celebrate together with the combined metrics summary on the global dashboard.

We encourage you to check out the documentation for more information on how to set up the plugin, add team members, view and customize the form, and auto-send email reminders. We welcome your contributions and ideas in the Issues and Discussions sections of the GitHub repository.

Thanks for using Disciple.Tools, and we hope you enjoy this new feature!

Thank you Team Expansion for funding a portion of the development! We invite you to give if you are interested in contributing towards this plugin or supporting the creation of more like it.

New Features

• Export/Import D.T Settings by @kodinkat
• New DT Settings by @prykon
• Invalid Magic link page by @kodinkat

Improvements

• Better name search in typeahead fields by @kodinkat
• Enabled Clickable Typeahead Multi Select Filter Queries by @kodinkat
• Get all history and people in Revert Bot modal

Details

Export/Import D.T Settings

Want to copy your Disciple.Tools setup to a new D.T site? Export any new Tiles or fields or changes you've made to them. Then upload your export to the new site.

Read more: https://disciple.tools/user-docs/getting-started-info/admin/utilities-dt/exporting-importing-settings/

Magic link Landing Page

If you are using magic links and the link has expired or the wrong link has been entered we'll now see this page instead of the login screen.

New Customizations (D.T) section (Beta)

We revamped the way to create tiles, fields, and field options. You can now use the intuitive user interface to create, edit, and sort these customizations for all post types. Find out the details in the user docs.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/DiscipleTools/disciple-tools-theme/compare/1.38.0...1.39.0

What's New

• Upgrade WP Admin > Extension (D.T) tab with search and beautiful cards by @prykon
• Metrics: See number fields in 'Fields over Time' by @corsacca
• Revert Record Back In Time Shape by @kodinkat
• Tile Settings: Ability to delete a tile
• Field Settings: Ability to make a field hidden or not hidden

Fixes

• Keep current sort order when doing a search on the list page by @corsacca
• Ability to clear/delete a number field when using min > 0 by @kodinkat
• Fix for locations sometimes being the wrong place
• Make more strings translatable

Details

Upgrade WP Admin > Extension (D.T) tab with search and beautiful cards

Revert Record Back In Time Shape by @kodinkat

On any record, use the "Admin Actions" dropdown > "View Record History" to open the history modal. It gives a more detailed view of the record's activity, it lets us filter to certain days, and it lets up revert changes that were made.

We can roll back the record's field changes. Select the last "good" activity and click the roll back button.

See more here.

Metrics: See number fields in 'Fields over Time'

Let's look at the Group "Member Count" sum across all groups

Full Changelog: https://github.com/DiscipleTools/disciple-tools-theme/compare/1.37.0...1.38.0

Curious about Magic Links? Heard about them before?

A magic link might look like this:

Clicking the link will open a browser page with anything from a form to complex application.

It might look like this:

The cool part: Magic links give the user a quick and secure way to interact with a simplified view without having to log in.

Read more about magic links here: Magic Links Intro

Magic Link Plugin

We’ve created a way for you to build your own magic like the Contact Info one above.

You can find it in the Magic Link Sender Plugin under the Extensions (D.T) > Magic Links > Templates tab.

Templates

Build a new template and select the wanted fields:

For more see the Magic Link Templates Docs.

Scheduling

Want to automatically send your magic link out to users or contacts on a regular basis? That is also possible!

See how to set up scheduling: Magic Link Scheduling Docs

Questions or Ideas?

Join the discussion here: https://github.com/DiscipleTools/disciple-tools-bulk-magic-link-sender/discussions

What's New

• Admin Utilities page to tracks emails sent, by @kodinkat
• Better search on names so "John Doe" matches "John Bob Joe", by @kodinkat
• Group members are now ordered alphabetically after the group leaders, by @kodinkat
• Let administrators remove users from a multisite, by @corsacca
• Select Language offered to user the first time they sign in, by @kodinkat
• Default D.T Language, by @kodinkat

Fixes

• Keep number fields from scrolling and being accidentally updated, by @kodinkat
• Fix List Filters not loading for some record types, by @kodinkat
• Allows custom labels for the Status and Details tile, by @micahmills

Dev

• More consisted Activity Log collection for connection field, by @kodinkat
• use list_all_ permission for viewing typeahead lists, by @cairocoder01

Details

Admin Utilities page to tracks emails sent

Need to make sure certain emails are being sent? Enable email tracking in WP Admin > Utilities (D.T) > Email Logs

Select Language offered to user the first time they sign in

The first time a user signs in, they will be asked what language they would like to use D.T in:

Default Disciple.Tools language.

Set the default language for new users under WP Admin > Settings (D.T) > General Settings > User Preferences:

Full Changelog: https://github.com/DiscipleTools/disciple-tools-theme/compare/1.36.0...1.37.0

What's Changed

• Ability add custom comment types in the WP-Admin
• Fix for locations lookup saving incorrect place.
• Fix being able to create a comment reaction by a different user.
• Fix unwanted notifications being sent to other users on a multisite.
• Notice to install mapbox key to view all maps.

Developer Updates

• Including the JWT authentication package in the theme core.
• Site links API key option.

Details

Ability add custom comment types

In WP-Admain > Settings (D.T) > Custom Lists > Contact Comment Types We now have the ability to add customize comment types for Contacts:

Will let us create a comment with the "Praise" comment type.

Which we can then filter for:

Site links API key option

Enabling "Use Token As API Key" will let the token be used directly instead of needing to create a hash including the current time. This makes interacting with the D.T API easier.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/DiscipleTools/disciple-tools-theme/compare/1.35.1...1.36.0

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/

What's Changed

• Ability to delete a workflow by @kodinkat
• Icon for system activity in record comments section by @kodinkat

Fixes

• Function improvements on Maping, Icon selector and Migrations

Details

System Activity Icon

Full Changelog: https://github.com/DiscipleTools/disciple-tools-theme/compare/1.34.0...1.35.0

New Features

• Avoid duplicates on Contact creation with duplicate checker by @prykon
• Create Roles with default post type permissions

Fixes

• Fix language label for Romanian
• Fix WP Admin font icon picker not loading
• Fix searching for comments in list view
• Unblock /wp/v2/users/me for some plugins to work better (iThemes Security).

Development upgrades

• Add dev key option to site links to be reference by plugins

Details

Contact Creation Duplicate Checker

We now check if another contact already exists for a certain email in order to avoid creating duplicate contacts. Also works with phone numbers.

Create Roles with default post type permissions

We made it easier to create custom roles with specific permissions for all the record types (contacts, groups, trainings, etc).

Site link dev key (developer)

Add a custom key to the site link configuration. This lets a plugin find its needed site link

$site_keys = Site_Link_System::instance()::get_site_keys();
//filter for site_key['dev_key'] === 'your_dev_key';

Full Changelog: https://github.com/DiscipleTools/disciple-tools-theme/compare/1.33.0...1.34.0

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.