This release includes numerous usability and stability fixes for the Budget, Event, Forms, Jobs, Messages, Schedules, and Todos modules.
What’s New
Budget
- Reordering Budget Line Items: Corrected problems encountered in Budget when moving lines up or down to a different part of the budget
Event Setup
- In Event Setup, the list of Event Administrators is now sorted alphabetically.
- Corrected some minor problems with the way event contacts display on the Event Portal.
Registration
- Improved Event Registration Workflow: A new and improved event registration workflow and registration wizard is now available. Important details from your event is now shown on the ClearEvent Sign in / Sign up page. This helps registrants know they are in the right place to sign up for your awesome event. We’ve also combined “Sign up” and “Sign In” capabilities into a single, easy to use, page. So, regardless of whether or not your Registrants have a ClearEvent Account, getting registered for your event is simple and quick.
- New Multi-line Text Form Fields: You can now create text fields on your registration form that can capture multiple lines of input from your registrants. In the Form Designer, simply add a new Text field to your form and in the FIELD SETTINGS tab, select the Show multiple lines under the DISPLAY settings group and then choose how many lines you would like to capture. You’ll be able to see the how the field looks in the form preview area.
- Deleting Forms: Forms can now be deleted. To delete a form, open the Form Manage module, select a form and click on the Delete button. Deleting registration forms is uncommon because forms are typically reused from event to event. Nonetheless, if you have test forms or old forms you no longer need, you can now delete them to keep things nice and tidy.
- Display Forms on the Event Portal: Forms are now listed alphabetically in the Registration page and on the Dashboard.
- Forms automatically collect Email Address: When build your registration forms, you no longer need to ask for an email address from your registrants. Along with First Name and Last Name, you will automatically receive the the Email Address field from the registrants ClearEvent Account User Profile. You can also easily choose other fields from a registrants ClearEvent Account like (Mobile Phone, Other Phone, and Address).
- The “Id” form field setting has been renamed: A small improvement has been made when adding new fields to a form in the Form Editor. Field Short Name (Id) setting will be auto-focused to improve the form editing experience.
- Increased Form Description:
The Form Description field has been doubled in size and now accepts up to 4000 characters of text that you can use to describe your form to your registrants. - Enhanced closed form messages: When a Registrant attempts to access a registration form that is closed, the error messages shown to the registrant have been clarified. We now indicate if registration is not yet open or if registration has past.
- Auto-scroll to newly added form fields: When editing your forms, the selected field will now auto-scroll into view if it is not visible.
- Form layout improvements: Visual layout improvements have been made to the Registration Form screens. Namely, the ClearEvent Account User Profile section of the registration form is now displayed above the Participant Availability section. Additional layout improvements have been made to field validation errors on your registration form for things like required fields.
- Label no longer required on Form Field settings: On a Registration Form, fields no longer require the Label setting to be specified. We recommend you use this capability with caution, but you can now omit the Label (if you really really want to).
- Id form field setting renamed to Field Short Name (Id): On a Registration Form, we have renamed the “Id” field setting to “Field Short Name (Id)” to better clarify the intent of this field. You should use this field setting to give a short and meaningful name to your form field. Fields are used elsewhere in the ClearEvent system so uniquely identifying each of your form fields by filling in the Short Field Name (Id) setting is important.
- Form editing improvements: Numerous form editing stability improvements have been made to the Form Editor.
General
- Saving User Preferences and State: When working in various ClearEvent modules, we now remember and save user preferences and the state that the screen was in (on a device-by-device basis). We save filters, list sort order, selected tabs, etc. This makes you more productive if you find yourself always switching between modules.
- Website address formats: Clarified the help messages which display when invalid website urls are entered into the system.
- Scrolling improvements: Improved scrolling behavior for long lists or screens with scrollbars (like the Budget, Participants, the Form Designer, etc.)
Jobs
- Export Job Assignments to Excel: Job assignments can now be exported to excel in one easy step.
- Improve Job Assignment Status Indicators: The Job Assignment Status Indicator in the Job section list has been improved to consider cancelled participants in the progress indicator.
- Send Invite Event Admin Error: Corrected an intermittent error that is sometimes experienced when inviting new Event Administrators from the Event Manger App > Event Setup section > Admin tab.
- Stability: Corrected issue where rapidly switching between modules in the left navigation pane can cause “An unexpected error happened (Uncaught TypeError: Unable to process binding)”
- Stability: Corrected issue in the Event Portal > Messages page where participants visiting the Event Portal that have not signed in, are currently not be able to view Messages that have been shared as “Public”.
- Stability: Corrected issue where some users may experience a 500 Server Error" page when attempting to sign-in.
Messages
- Improved the search function in Messages to include the entire message body.
Schedules
- Fixed. Resolved an issue in the Event Manager App > Schedule section > Schedule Details editor where the schedule and location links were not clickable. It is now possible to click on the links and a new browser window will be opened and navigated to the specified links.
- Fixed. Corrected default date values for newly created Schedules which could cause save errors.
- Fixed. Corrected items in Schedule causing errors on Save.
Todos
- Added additional Rollover options to TODOs item details to include TODOs that won’t rollover and long-lead TODO’s that are for next event rather than the current event.
- Importing Todos: Importing Todo items has been improved to make all but the Description field in your import file optional. This greatly improves the effort required to import long lists of Todo items using excel and lists you may already have.