PocketPlatform - February 6-7, 2024
New year, new stuff for your app! Start your year off right with these enhancements.
Self Check-In
- Self check-in is now available in V2, and it's better than ever! You can allow users to check themselves into an event. And if they're the head of household, they can check in family members, too. This is useful for large events where manually marking attendance could be difficult.
- If this sounds like something you'd like, contact Support to get the "self-checkin" recipe. Once you have that recipe, you can enable self check-in for an event by editing the Event record and setting Allow Self Checkin to Yes. In the app, you can include a way to check-in using the dashboard recipe. There, they can select who's attending and click Check In. They'll see a confirmation, and the Event Participant records are then created in the Platform.
Giving
- If you don't have an integration with one of our giving vendors, you're able to link out to your vendor's website. Now, you can display a screen with custom text (such as instructions or additional information) before the user is sent out of the app. You can include a title, text, and a Give button.
- We've expanded our integration with OnlineGiving.Org. Now, you can link to their website from more screens in your app. And, user authentication is passed to their site, so users don't have to log in again! To do this, make sure to add "(onlineGiving)" directly in front of the URL that you are currently using. For example, "(onlineGiving)https://ministryplatform.com".
Phone Screens
- Has a congregant ever expressed frustration when they were watching a sermon and their phone screen went black, right when it was getting good? Most devices turn off the screen after a period of inactivity, but now, we can control that! Devices will "stay awake" (meaning they will not lock or go to sleep) when playing a video or audio file from the Media Player in full screen, and when reviewing the Sermon Notes and Reading Plan Day screens.
Events
- Recently, we added additional information on the Event Detail screen, including the Building/Room information. Now, you can determine whether that info displays in PocketPlatform. On the Event record in the Platform, when you set "Show Building Room Info" to Yes, it displays in the app. Otherwise, you can set it to No to hide the label and information.
- When multiple groups are associated with an event and they have the same building/room, that info only shows once instead of being duplicated for each group.
- The Read More button is now available in V2! On the Event record, you can enter a Read More URL to show a button on the Event Detail screen. When an app user clicks the button, the link opens in their device browser. This is helpful if you have a page on your church website that provides more details about the event.
- Fixed an issue in Android where the Event Details screen was sometimes difficult to read based on the data connected to the Event record.
Contact Lookup
- Fixed an issue in Android where the user was sometimes unable to initiate a text, phone call, or email using the buttons in the Contact Lookup.
Login
- Fixed a display issue when a user sent an access code as a text message but the confirmation message listed an email address instead of the phone number.
Sermon Notes
- Fixed issues where sermon notes were not always saving and the device keyboard was covering the Save button.
Note:
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