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The upcoming website update is almost ready. Barring last-minute problems, it will occur Tuesday night. If you would like to check it out beforehand, visit vmtest.prestogem.com/vo/example (and login as admin@prestogem.com).

If you discover you have any issues with these changes, please let me know as soon as possible.

Regards,
Seth

Changes to PRESTO's home page and policies

Some of these changes are not particularly relevant on you. These are though:

1. The Support page now requests that problems and questions be entered via the Forum. It also provides problem-reporting guidelines.
2. The Services page now covers training and the long term event storage fee.

1. The layout of the PRESTO home page has been changed. In particular, there is now a button for creating a PRESTO group.
2. The pricing page has been reorganized into a current-pricing section and proposed future-pricing section. (Please note that the latter contains a request for feedback).
3. Webmasters of future PRESTO groups must login using their email address. (Existing groups can continue to simply use "webmaster").

Feature Changes in this Website Update

Changes related to the user forum

1. The Forum link on self-signup home and admin home now shows (in red) the number of forum messages posted since your last visit to the forum.
2. When you create a support-related topic, you have the option of making it visible to only PRESTO support.
3. The forum home page's UI has been streamlined.
4. The UI for showing messages now makes it easier to see "nearby messages" and your overall context. It also makes it easier to change your own messages.
5. When you create a new topic or reply based on some mesage, you can now quote that message's content.

Changes related to email and auto-messages

UI changes:

1. The FROM dropdown menu now contains group's general email address.
2. The REPLY-TO dropdown menu now includes same-as-From as an option.
3. The schedule-announcement box now contains a "send n days before event" button. (This is useful for automaticaly sending a please-signup message prior to each of your events).
4. The setup-auto-messages page now allows you to auto-send a summary of each signup action to all or part of the event staff. (A summary message is essentially a simplified audit trail signup message: its subject does not contain the "PR:signup", and it does not contain the person's confirmation message).

Other changes:

1. Email previews now include the message's subject.
2. Summary/audit-trail signup messages now include the person's signup form (except on a Cancel).
3. Editing a signup form now causes a summary/audit message.

Miscellaneous feature changes

1. Walked-in is now one of the possible status's in the Your-Current-Signups table.
2. You can search for peope with no email address by entering "none" in the Email Address field.
3. On page forms (but not dialog boxes) the current input field is highlighted in a pale yellow. Also when the page is first displayed, the 1st input field is already current.
4. Update Group Properties and Create/Edit Event display a hint for the current input field.
5. You can now choose the underlined text when you insert a link into email messages, activity descriptions, and so on. You do this by entering text to underline .

UI changes pre-announced in April

Signup related:

1. The see-all-signups privilege has been added. It is a step up from self-only. Users with this privilege (or a higher priv) see a WHO checkbox next to each schedule line on the self-signup page. Clicking on a checkbox displays all the users who have signed up for that activity.
2. The signup pages now contain an activities-to-display dropdown menu. The self-signup page's choices are: All Activities, Upcoming Activities, Upcoming & not Full. There are 2 additional options in this menu on the admin-signup page, by the way.
3. Signup actions (unless something unusual happens) no longer require you to click OK to dismiss the all-done info box. Instead the box fades away after a couple of seconds.
4. Event-specific self-signup help (see Update Event-properties command) is no longer part of the standard self-signup help page. Instead there is a link to this help (if any) under the self-signup page's title line.
5. The admin-signup page now contains a signups-to-display dropdown menu instead of a checkbox. The 3rd option is 'no signups' -- which suppresses even new signups.

Others:

1. Public Home is now referred to as Self-Signup Home in both the admin and user help. Similarly the links to this page also now say Self-Signup Home (instead of Public Home and Upcoming Events respectively).
2. Displaying an activity description now displays a dialog box instead of a new page.
3. Errror reporting, colors, and formatting have been cleaned up. These changes include making all help links (including group-defined help such as activity descriptions) a shade of blue and using less color on admin-signup pages.
4. For privileged users, the line below Self-Signups Home's Events table now contains a dropdown menu for changing to the UI view of lower-privilege users. (Fon unprivileged users, it documents the links color convention).
5. Initial display of the signups-per-person page no longer displays all signups if there are lots of signups for the event. Instead there is an alphabetic directory at the top of the page.