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Bug Description: After closing a report, the Print Preview menu remains visible. There is no access to the Home, Tasks, Report or Program Setup menus.

This issue has come up recently in all versions of CMS 2010 and later which use the Office Ribbon, and is not related to something specific in the CMS Application. Apparently, this bug is due to some change in Office and will be corrected in a future Microsoft Update.

Workaround: Short of restarting the program, you can get the...

Bug Description: When using the Category Manager to change the category and/or subcategory of many transactions, updating a split transactions only updated the first line item and the remaining parts of the split remained with the original category/subcategory.

This bug has been corrected and will be part of CMS version 14.1.28.

In preparing the formal release of the highly anticipated Google Contacts integration features, detailed instructions and documentation have been added to the Knowledge Base.

These include: Setup instructions Best practices Video tutorials White papers (technical notes) You can browse these Knowledge Base articles here. http://support.chabadms.com/KB/c24/google-contacts-integration.aspx

If you have been using the Google Contacts integration feature in Beta, feel...

To install this update, login to http://support.chabadms.com/ and click Downloads.

This update fixes a bug in Google Contacts integration. In certain scenarios, the Google contact which is created would have the incorrect phone number or email. To correct this, please install this update and re-create any Google contacts that were auto-created by CMS.

After installing this update you should start the Google Integration anew to ensure that the Google Contacts were created properly. To...

This new version of CMS adds two important components to the Google Contacts Integration. New Contacts Added to Google. Contacts that are added to Google that are not in CMS now be matched up to existing contacts in your database, or automatically create new contacts.

There are many details to this so be sure to review the this KB article on how it works. http://support.chabadms.com/KB/a1679/version-131129-how-new-google-contacts-are-handled-by-cms.aspx

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When you install version 13.11.11 it includes an updated version of CMS CONNECTED which handles the changes to Google Contacts that were already synced and can silently update the CMS Program. Double-click CMS CONNECTED and login. CMS CONNECTED will run as a process hidden in the System Tray (area next to the Windows Clock). Currently it is set to check for Contact changes every 2 minutes. You can force it to check for changes at any time by clicking on it and choosing "Get Google Contact...

Misc Improvements and Fixes When importing Camper or Student Enrollments (CMS CONNECTED Forms), camper/student note is now imported as expected. Improvement: Added Gender filter on Contact Report > Family tab. Bug Fix: Contact report. Limiting or excluding multiple programs by 'And' now works as expected (previously, it acted as if 'Or' was selected even when choosing 'And') Improvement: Occasion report now include Phones when exporting/word merges. Improvement: Contact...

View Programs: Corrected an issue where if the contact did not have any contact numbers or emails, their name wasn't showing up in the list of contacts assigned to the selected program. Transaction Reports now correctly display Contact Numbers Cloud Contacts If security (login and password) has not been set up prior to installing the BETA, an error occurs when attempting to create a new user. In some cases, an error occurred when clicking Select Contacts (Google Settings...

List of tweaks in Google Contact integration. All this happens silently and without any user intervention. Editing a contact number from the Contact tab (contact view) by double-clicking now triggers a Google Update. Editing a contact number and modifying whose number it is, will update both the original Google Contact (whose number it was) and the new Google Contact (whose number it now is). Changes to a Shared Home phone now update all Google Contacts in the family (as it is...

New: Google Contacts Integration. This version of CMS debuts the Google Contacts integration.

Here are some of it's features: Instant, silent and automatic updates to your Google Contacts as changes are being made to data in CMS. Support for multiple CMS user logins. Each CMS user can synchronize to his or her own Google Contacts. Full control of which CMS contacts should be synchronized. This can be done based on Programs or by manually selecting names. Synchronize...