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What's New Sending thank-you letters by email using MailChimp. See this KB Article for details.

Saving thank you letter batches. Reprinting batches and change to "mark as sent" function. See this KB Article for details.

Sending thank-you letters now has more email options for limiting to those that have or don't have an email address. [image]

This is useful when you are generating thank-you letters to email (via Word Merge or MailChimp) and...

This version fixes a bug with the MailChimp integration that prevented uploading your contacts. It also optimizes several back end processes and sports a new installer.

This version covers the new features and improvements linked below.

http://support.chabadms.com/News/197/14223-mailchimp-integration-minor-improvements-bug-fixes.aspx

MailChimp Integration After numerous request from our users for this feature, we are excited to announce MailChimp integration for sending emails. Please see this KB Article on how to setup and use the MailChimp integration.

Google Contact Integration - New Action: Permanently Ignore. When getting updates from Google, at times the update no longer makes sense and needs to be ignored. To handle such as scenario, a new type of Action has been implemented called "Permanently Ignore"...

This version covers the changes and improvements and bug fixes linked below.

http://support.chabadms.com/News/189/14128-bug-fix-category-manager-batch-update-categories.aspx

http://support.chabadms.com/News/190/14128-bug-fix-print-preview-menu-remains-after-closing.aspx

http://support.chabadms.com/News/191/14128-bug-fix-built-letters-preview-not-showing-first.aspx

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Family tab displays contact numbers for each family member The family tab was modified to show each family members' primary contact numbers: Shared Home Phone, Work Phone, Mobile Phone and Email address. [image]

Communicator Contact Report by Gender When uploading to email addresses to Communicator, choosing Men or Women from the Gender drop-down now works as expected. Choosing Men will have just the Husband's name and his email address, and choosing Women will have the Wife's name...

This improvement overcomes the limitation of only having the first 10 Communicator Lists available. It was implemented for CMS version 14.1.30.

Note: There is still a limitation of the number of Lists you can create in your MyChabad Communicator account. To see your account features, click Program Setup > Options > Custom tab and click Communicator Settings, or you can see this information online when logging in to your Communicator account.

The Batch Letters window has been redesigned to make it more intuitive and it's features more easily accessible. Click Tasks > Letters and Receipts to access this screen.

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On the 'Other' tab, you can now limit the batch to a single contact or several contacts. This is useful for Year/End type letters where one contact requests the year-end summary letter.

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This improvement will be released along with CMS version 14.1.29

Bug Description: When generating a thank you letter using the built-in letters, the address block and/or the letter signature does not show correctly in the Print Preview. This behavior only affects the first letter of the batch (when generating batch letters), subsequent letters in the batch preview properly.

Workaround: A workaround is not necessary, since this only affects the Preview of the letter as it comes up on the screen; when printing the letter or creating a pdf, the letters...

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...