0.2 Beta Released
Duane Raymond
The eCampaigning Tool 0.2 Beta (aka Jon Special) has been
released. We decided to skip the alpha 2 (we were being too
conservative) due to the range of improvements added to this
version. It has also been used in a low volume live environment
for the past 2 weeks and works fine.
You can get it at:
http://plone.org/products/ecampaigning-tool
Anyone who had problems installing the alpha version (due to the
TALESField requirement not being documented) will find this
version no longer requires TALESField. Furthermore, a 'bundle'
version is also available with all the required packages
included.
This beta version is 'configured' for the best setting for single
campaigns, small campaigning organisations and/or individual
campaigners editors. The configuration suitable for large
organisations and coalitions can be set - but manually right now.
We hope in the future to be able to choose up-front which
configuration settings are used.
A HUGE thanks to Petri who did most of the work. I just found
some bugs and kept asking for more improvements and updated some
documentation.
Please try it out and report issue on the issue tracker or this
list.
A history of changes is below.
Cheers,
Duane
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eCampaigning Tool HISTORY
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version 0.2 Beta - Jon Special - released 29 March 2007
- Removed dependencies; no need for 'compatible' nor 'TALESField'
any more
- Implemented / fixed issues: #1, #2, #3 (part), #4, #5, #6, #7,
#8, #9, #11 [duane, jonstahl, petri]
Usability improvements included:
- The 'take action' view is now the default and is linkable via
Kupu [petri]
- Required Action Elements optionally created and linked when
adding an Action Edition (best for small campaigns /
organisations) [petri]
- Action Elements only addable within an Action Edition (best for
small campaigns / organisations) [petri]
- Made Action Elements hidden from the left navigation [jonstahl]
- Added integrated 'help' links to all eCampaigning Tool Action
Elements (content types) [petri, duane]
- Fixed the context in which the 'edit schema' tab occurs [petri]
- Removed unnecessary options from the Schema Editor view [petri]
- Put warnings on the 'Action Type' and 'Layout' selectors since
they delete and recreate content [duane]
- Improved installation documentation [duane]
- Made "Sender name for thank you emails" and "Sender email
address for 'thank you emails'" default to the Plone site
settings
- Turned on Kupu UID linking and absolute links in emails (for
clickable links and object like images) so that URLs worked when
entered with Kupu [petri]
- Renamed the key pages of the Action Edition set-up process to
be more meaningful [duane]
- Clarified field description text including warnings on fields
where data loss can occur [duane]
- Added default MSGIDs for English po file for all Action Types
[duane]
- Added warning message if someone tries to view an Action
Edition without all required elements [duane]
- Improved CSS of two column Action Step [duane]
Improvements
- Added an uninstall script to remove eCampaigning Tool
portal_properties and other eCampaigning Tool settings [petri]
- Added option to convert and HTML Action message to plain text
for editable Action Messages [petri]
- Added key metadata fields to the Action Edition set-up process
[petri]
- Improved support for the Action Registry API [petri]
- Integrated a review-on-launch page for the metadata (posted to
the Action Registry) [petri]
- Fixed generation of download data, statistics, overview page,
etc. for a Campaign Action's related Action Editions [petri]
eCampaigning 0.2 Alpha - Fresh Air - released (1 February 2007)
- First version of the eCampaigning Tool to be publicly released
- Tested on and is supported on Plone 2.1.x and Plone 2.5
- Major re-factoring of the architecture including:
- Single content type for action edition [petri]
- Action edition has pre-configured action types [petri]
- Action editions can have multiple action steps [petri]
- Action record storage moved to Zope level and de-coupled from
portal_factory [petri]
- CSS now determines all layouts [petri]
- ATDataMerge functionality added and ATDataMerge package now
required [petri]
- Conditional Field Blocks and HTML Blocks [petri]
- Added Action Edition 'launch' information page for Editors
[petri]
- Added promotion function that announces 'launched' action
editions to a central repository [petri]
- Added version check to determine if a more up-to-date version
exists [petri]
- Added documentation links for Editors to use when setting up
actions [petri]
- Minor changes:
- Default name elements generalised to 'given name' and 'family
name' [duane]
- 'Goal' field added to 'campaign action' and 'action edition'
[duane]
- Added a default decoy field (name_df) to help identify form
spam
and it is made invisible with CSS with display=none
[duane]
- A progress bar using CSS is now included [duane]
- Structured the range of pre-set Action Types to be simple
(1-step), multi-step
and smart-step (multi-step with conditional Field and
HTML Blocks) [duane]
eCampaigning 0.1.9 - Threesome - Unreleased (20 November 2006)
- First version of the eCampaigning Tool to be distributed to
others
- Moved detailed documentation out of svn and onto a wiki a:
http://www.fairsay.com/opensource/ectool/docs/ [duane]
- Released eCampaigning Tool under GNU GPL license [duane]
- Added dependency on 'compatible' library to wrap
incompatibilities
of different Zope and Plone versions where possible [petri]
- Refactored and re-organised content types and schemas to
make it more maintainable [petri]
- Added Selenium tests [petri]
- Added city, post code and country fields to organisation and
person
schemas + make org name / first+last name required and
added
validatiors for email address and web address [duane]
- Added to and simplified po files of tool vocabulary/terms
[duane]
- Added new setup process: 'two column with address page' [petri]
- Re-factored most content types to use ATContentTypes [petri]
- Added code and instructions to ensure the data export works on
all three Plone versions [petri]
- Fixed but that was preventing translation to be substituted for
divider in 'Thank You Emails' [petri]
- Added 'action elements' tab to 'Action Editions' to show a
folder
view of all objects except 'Action Records' for when there
are
hundreds or thousands of records [petri]
- Fixed issue where 'Action Records' were listed and viewable on
some
Plone versions [petri]
- Fixed issue where new fields added to the schema (ATSE) did not
have
submitted data saved to the resulting 'Action Record'
[petri]
- Changed 'Action Record' from folderish to non-folderish object
[petri]
- Changed the default 'Action Edition' view to be
/eaction_edition_view instead of /folder_contents [petri]
- Changed the 'Thank You Email' and 'Email to Target' to be
capable of being sent in HTML as well as in plain text [petri]
- Made code work on Plone 2.0.x, 2.1.x and 2.5.x [petri]
eCampaigning 0.1.8 - Just In Time - Unreleased (1 June 2005)
- First production version of the eCampaigning Tool and used
primarily on whiteband.org
- Works only on Plone 2.0.x [petri]
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Duane Raymond
FairSay - Making Campaigning Count
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