Release Notes 2020

Chmeetings 2020.61 – December 30, 2020

New

General performance and design improvements

Fixed

General bug fixes.

Chmeetings 2020.60 – December 23, 2020

New

People – Send Notifications: Add an option to attach images and
files to the notification. This is only available to paid accounts.
People – Email People: Save the email subject with the template.
Member Access – Pending People: Add an option to send push
notifications to pending people.

Fixed

Fix an issue with editing an event from the dashboard will
lead to losing its name.
Fix an issue with import contacts from the mobile app that
doesn’t display in some cases.

Chmeetings 2020.59 – December 16, 2020

New

Users & Roles – Users: Add a new role “Group Leader” to let
some users only access a specific group of people
Reports: Display the recipients of email, text, and push
notifications in the mobile app.
Reports: Add a new option to search by name, mobile, and email
in the recipients of email, text, and push notifications.

Fixed

Fix an issue with editing event occurrence that leads to
duplicate the event on Safari.
Fix an issue with the last access date on the user’s page.
Fix a display issue of the people’s advanced search on the
mobile.

Chmeetings 2020.58 – December 3, 2020

New

Events – Registration: Add an option to disable the event
cancellation before the event starts with a specific number of hours.
Member Access – My Registrations: Show the date and hour of the
event.

Fixed

Fix an issue with the paging in the text, email, and push
notifications history report.

Chmeetings 2020.57 – November 25, 2020

New

Settings – Account Settings: Add an option to set the sender
name and reply to email. This is only available to paid accounts.
Events: Add a new option to enable event registration for
specific groups.
Events – Sessions: Add an option to enter a speaker name that is
not one of the members.
Contributions: Add an option to enter the check number and
display it in the giving statement.
Contributions – Online Giving: Add an option to ask donors to
cover the processing fee.
People: Allow to select people from multiple searches to do any
bulk operation easily.
People: Add an option to create login account for new members
directly from the person details page. This is available beside the Edit button.
Reports: General improvements in the recurring event report.

Chmeetings 2020.56 – November 19, 2020

New

Forms – Settings: Add an option to make the form visible for
member access users in the menu.
Forms – Submissions: Add an export option to create a letter
template for the submitters and use the form fields and profile fields.
General performance improvements.

Fixed

Fix an issue with the public calendar that prevents it from
displaying well.
Fix an issue with loading the profile photos in the
generated QR Cards.

Chmeetings 2020.55 – November 11, 2020

New

Roles & Permissions: Add new permission to control the
option of add/remove from the ministry.
Roles & Permissions: Add a new option to set the mandatory
fields and which fields can display in the custom registration form.
Forms: Add Forms optional expiry date.

Chmeetings 2020.54 – November 4, 2020

New

Settings – Account Settings: Add an option to change the time
format from 12 hours to 24 hours.
Roles & Permissions: Add new permission to control the
birthdate (view/edit) in the profile details.
Reports – Birthdays Report: Order people by the day of birth,
display the age and add age filter.
General performance improvements.

Fixed

Fix an issue that prevent creating a form from the mobile
app.
Fix events display order in the member access home page.

Chmeetings 2020.53 – October 29, 2020

New

Users: Add an option to invite members to become users.
People: Add an option to enable/disable sending emails to some
people.
People: Improve the performance of exporting people in case of
thousands of records.

Chmeetings 2020.52 – October 20, 2020

New

Language: Add French Language.
Events – Attendance: Add a new option to enter the count of
visitors/guests.

Chmeetings 2020.51 – October 16, 2020

New

Contributions: Add PayPal to the payment providers in online
giving along with Stripe.
Reports: Add a new report “Deleted People Report” that will
display all deleted people in the last 30 days with an option to restore. This is only available to paid
accounts.
Event – Sessions: Display the event sessions in the event
details page.

Fixed

Fix an issue with the event participants order doesn’t
consider the selected name format in the account settings.
Fix an issue with form submission not working in a very
special case.
Fix a UI issue with the calendar color picker.

Chmeetings 2020.50 – October 7, 2020

New

Contributions: Print/Email Giving statement for individuals and
families.
Reports: Add a new report “Households Report” that will display
all households and the address details.
Member Access: Add an option to receive registrations
notifications as a push notification on the mobile.
Calendar: Add an option to print the calendar.
Calendar: Update the Agenda view to display the events in 30
days instead of 7 days.
People – Profile Details: Show the mobile phone of the parents
in the family list to quickly call them.
Settings – Account Settings: Add an option to customize the app
color. This is only available to paid accounts.

Fixed

Fix an issue with displaying the correct name format and
searching by the name fields in the event participants.

Chmeetings 2020.49 – October 1, 2020

New

Forms: Auto link the people if they are exactly matched in the
name and email/mobile.
Forms: Add an option to send Text, Email, or push notifications
to the linked people.
Forms: Add an option to customize the form color.
People: Add an option to Edit account info, edit roles, and
delete the account directly from the person details page. This is available beside the Edit button.
Reports: Add a new report “People Log Report” that will display
a log for all updates done on the people. This is only available to paid accounts.
Text Provider: Now you can purchase text packages and send text
messages in South Africa.

Fixed

Fix Mailchimp integration issue when removing the
integration and adding it again.

Chmeetings 2020.48 – September 21, 2020

New

Forms: Add an option to receive submissions notifications as a
push notification on the mobile.
Events: Add an option to edit the maximum tickets of a specific
occurrence instead of the event.
Events – Check In: Add option to capture the attendance of a
person who is not listed as a participant of an event.
Settings – Profile Fields: Add an option to add multiple
sections.
Calendar: Increase the number of displayed events in a monthly
calendar cell.
Dashboard: Improve the loading time of the dashboard especially
when having many families.
Performance: General improvements on the application performance
in initial loading, events, and some reports.

Fixed

Fix an issue in adding to groups in iPhone X.
Fix public calendar shared link not working in a very
special case.

Chmeetings 2020.47 – September 10, 2020

New

Settings – Account Settings: Add Native name option to capture
people’s names in their native language. It will be appended to their name wherever their name is displayed in
the legal format or the chosen format.
Person Details – Events: Add an option to quickly register in an
event for a member and/or his family from his events page in Person details.
Contributions: Add an option to add envelops and linking it with
members to help in increasing confidentiality when adding the contributions.
Person Details – Giving: Show the total giving for the member
and also his family.

Fixed

Fix a sorting issue in event instances.
Fix some UI issues with the actions menu on the iPhone.

Chmeetings 2020.46 – September 4, 2020

New

Events: Add self check-in option so members can check-in
themselves.
Reports: Add people count report when using ministries feature.
People: Improve the user experience of adding existing people to
groups or ministry.

Fixed

Fix a bug with scheduled emails when contains an attachment.
Fix name matching bug in form submissions.

Chmeetings 2020.45 – August 28, 2020

New

People: Change quick add family member to full add.
People – Advanced Search: Remember your last state of
opened/closed search panel.
New Member Requests: Add an option to “Accept and add to
ministry”.
Events: Add copy event feature.
Forms: Add limit responses option.
Roles & Permissions: Add new permission to control the
online giving settings.
Follow up: Add an option to set up the follow-up time.
Notifications: Add an option to mark the notifications as
read/unread and show unread notifications count on the menu.
Notifications: Add an option to remove notifications.

Chmeetings 2020.44 – August 24, 2020

New

People – Advanced Search: Add an option to search for missing
values in additional profile fields.
Events – Registrations: Display the registered names in the
registration confirmation email.
Roles & Permissions: Add new permission to control the
online giving settings.
Follow up: Add an option to sort by date and by name.
Migrated to Microsoft Azure® Cloud platform for better security,
performance, and reliability.

Chmeetings 2020.43 – August 13, 2020

New

Events: Add Every 2 Weeks option to the event repeat.
People – Advanced Search: Add a new filter to search by state.
Roles & Permissions: Add new permission to control the
people export option.

Chmeetings 2020.42 – August 7, 2020

New

Person Details – Events: Click on the event registration icon
will open the registration details.
People – Advanced Search: Add a new filter for Events to find
people who registered or not registered in a specific duration.
Events: Add an option to Enable/Disable Registrations on a
specific occurrence in a recurring event.
Contributions: Add payment methods to let you add, update, or
delete payment methods.

Fixed

Fix an issue with edit event may lead to change the selected
calendar.
Fix an issue with calendar/Agenda view doesn’t show all
events in the selected interval.

Chmeetings 2020.41 – July 30, 2020

New

People – Person Details: Update the Events tab to show the
Registrations and Checked In events.
People: Add Sibling option to the family roles.
Events – Registrations: Add an option to cancel this ticket or
all tickets in the registration.
Roles & Permissions: Add new permission to Cancel Event
Registration.

Fixed

Fix an issue with event details page not responding when
having large description in iOS App.
Fix an issue with voice messages recorder on some browsers.
Fix a UI issue on displaying the person options menu on
iPad.

Chmeetings 2020.40 – July 23, 2020

New

Ministries Management – Add an option to manage the welcome
message and important links for each church under the diocese account.
Add a new option in the main menu to switch between the member
and staff menu.

Fixed

Fix an issue with older notifications disappeared.
Fix an issue with saving account settings not applied
immediately.
Fix an issue happens in certain cases when deleting an event
will show a security exception message.

Chmeetings 2020.39 – July 13, 2020

New

Dashboard – Add the Family count widget to the ministries
dashboard.
Calendar – Share: Add a new option to get public upcoming events
link and share it anywhere.
Roles & Permissions: Add new permission to Accept, Reject,
and Link member access requests.
Member Access – Requests: Add an option to bulk email/text
people.
Add support to download attachments from the mobile app.
Tools – Improve the performance of import/update people from
excel.
General performance enhancements.

Fixed

Copy form doesn’t copy the banner.
Can’t unarchive person.
Remove person from ministry and this person have a user
account.

Chmeetings 2020.38 – July 3, 2020

New

Member Access – Add a filter option to search inside the family
members.
Member Access – Change upcoming events to 30 days instead of 7
days.
Event Registration – Send email to members when the admin
registers them manually.

Fixed

Users page not working properly when having more than 5K
users.
People Advanced Search – Opening saved search will open all
search sections.
Invite members by Text not working when using Twilio
Integration.

Chmeetings 2020.37 – June 25, 2020

New

Event Registration: Add an option to limit the seats by members
or by families.
Member Access – Custom User/Member Invitation Email & Text
(Available for some accounts).
Member Access – Requests: Add flag option to mark some requests.
Member Access – Requests: Add an option to search by email and
mobile along with the name.

Fixed

Minor UI issues in the web app.

Chmeetings 2020.36 – June 22, 2020

New

Add a preview option to the attached files (type image) in the
person details page.
Member Access – Requests: Add export to excel option.
Member Access – Requests: Add sorting to the displayed columns.
Member Access – Requests: Show the time along with the date in
the request date column.
Member Access – Requests: Add an option to (Accept & Reject
member) in the person details page.
Roles & Permissions: Add a new permission “Member Access
(New Member Requests)” to allow some people to access this page along with Admin & Owner roles.

Chmeetings 2020.35 – June 17, 2020

New

Custom member & family registration form (Available for some
accounts).
People Advanced Search – Users & Roles: Add an option to
find people by invitation status (All, Invited, Pending, Invitation Failed, Logged In) and an option to reinvite
again.
Logged-In members can see Church name instead of Diocese name in
the Diocese accounts.
Settings: Add an additional name format (Last Name, First Name
Middle name).

Fixed

Fix an issue with merge two people inside the same family.
The owner-user can’t change his username.
Layout direction in attendance page.

Chmeetings 2020.34 – June 15, 2020

New

Event Registration public release.

Fixed

Households report not working in specific cases.
Minor UI issues in the mobile app.

Chmeetings 2020.33 – June 11, 2020

New

Settings: Add Name Format settings to support different formats
(Last Name, First Name) & (First Name Last Name)
Member Access: Allow pending approval members to add their
families and admin can review, accept, or reject the families.
Member Access: Add an option to allow automatic approval to all
accounts
Event Registration: Send Confirmation Email.
Show message after member registration to check spam/junk emails
in case he didn’t get an email.

Chmeetings 2020.32 – June 9, 2020

Fixed

Filter by name in the family report stop working.
People Advanced Search: People not in groups filter did not
return data if they are in a group in a different ministry.
Opening links from different domains doesn’t open inside the
mobile app.
Import contact in iPhone swap the mobile and phone in a very
specific case.
Event Registration UI issues.

Chmeetings 2020.31 – June 4, 2020

Fixed

Disable the invite by Text option if the user doesn’t have
permissions on People.

Chmeetings 2020.30 – June 2, 2020

New

Event Registration (Available for some accounts).
Member Access: Add Legal Agreement link.

Fixed

Filter by name in the family report stop working.

Note: Some features are not available in all accounts as they need some improvements and fine-tuning before
becoming available for all accounts.