Setting User Permissions is one of the most powerful features of ChurchPost.com – users are invited by the Master User, and today we started rolling out some small but important upgrades to how users of various types (see below) interact with our system.

It’s always been the case that every user can search and browse EVERY subscriber using the SUBSCRIBERS tab. If a subscriber exists in at least one group that you OWN, you can also edit that subscriber, and any changes you make affect that subscriber GLOBALLY.

Up until now, when creating a message, the “Send to Individuals” feature automatically searched for subscribers that existed in at least one of your groups (ownership) – this was particularly frustrating for LIMITED users who owned only one or two groups and wanted to copy a message to someone already in the global database. Because they did NOT appear in the ‘quick search’ results for individuals, many users reported going to the SUBSCRIBERS tab, searching for the subscriber, copying the email, and returning to the COMPOSE MESSAGE page to paste the email into the CC box.

Our ‘search as you type’ feature for individual email addresses now searches your central database for ALL SUBSCRIBERS, regardless of your user type. Hopefully, this will further streamline your messaging experience.

We’re rolling out some amazing new features in the coming weeks and months, including an entirely new Standard Email platform, complete with an intuitive and highly flexible image library platform that is compatible with every major browser. Additionally, we have some surprises coming…just in time for the holidays and into the beginning of the New Year.

As always, keep your feedback coming! We cannot continue to improve our service without you.

One of the more frustrating tasks is copying and pasting content from Microsoft Word to ANY other program. Behind the scenes, Word (and other Microsoft programs) includes proprietary code that usually messes up how certain characters are displayed outside the PC/Microsoft environment (see our “Funny Characters” post from August 2008).

We recently added a feature to our Standard Email Platform (CREATE -> Standard Email) that allows you to paste content from Word (and any other program out there) into your messages without having to worry about how things will look.

This new feature automatically removes extra code, formatting and other proprietary code so your messages are delivered in a readable format to all your subscribers, regardless of what email platform they use to view messages.

Once your content is pasted to the message body, you can use our Standard Email editor to format and otherwise adjust your message display without having to worry how it will appear to the recipient.

Happy pasting!!

We are thrilled to launch our new Custom Email option via our CREATE menu.

Our custom email interface allows you to access your church’s templates AND our growing Public Template library.

Choosing a template is simple – just select your favorite and go!