Thursday, December 9, 2010

Ward Central 2.07


V2.07 
This is a maintenance release to fix a bug that prevented members from downloading data when serving outside of their home ward in a leadership position.


V2.06
This version requires you to re-download your membership and calendar data from lds.org.


*** If you are serving outside of your home ward ***
If you are serving outside of your ward in a bishopric or other capacity and want to use the app to view membership of the ward you are serving in rather than your home ward, you must enter your ward unit number in the Preferred Unit application setting before downloading the LDS.org data. This applies only to Ward Central. This step is not necessary in Stake Central and is not necessary unless you want to download data for a unit other than your home ward or branch.


New Features:
  • Custom Groups  - define custom groups of individuals within a ward or stake. Groups are a convenient way to keep track of home teaching families and other individuals you contact regularly. 
  • Email or send an SMS message to an entire group.
  • Integration with new.lds.org allows access to individual (cell) phone numbers and synchronizes organization information better with the ward computer. Because of the way the new website restricts information, children under age 18 may not be visible in units outside of your own ward or branch.
  • New user interface is more consistent between screens.
  • Support for navigating to an address directly from the app (skipping the maps step).

Known Issues:
  1. There are still some issues with the web interface pulling data from the new.lds.org site that shows old or inaccurate leadership data or missing leadership data for some people. If this is an issue for you, I suggest unchecking the app setting to pull data from the new.lds.org site. If data is downloaded from the old site, you will not have access to cell phone information and downloads may take longer.