I am pleased to announce that there is a new version of Meeting Schedule Assistant available.
Sing Out Joyfully to Jehovah
Hindi
The new songbook is now updated for Hindi. Schedules must have a start date of 7th January 2019 or later.
Saramaccan
The new songbook is now updated for Saramaccan. Schedules must have a start date of 7th January 2019 or later.
Backup Restore
The backup / restore feature has been improved and now supports progress monitoring.
Improved user feedback!
Bug Fixes
The Select Student window has had an important bug fix. It was showing the wrong information under certain scenarios.
S-89 10/18 Student Slips
The templates continue to be updated as the revised slips are made available. At the time of writing these are the languages that still need to be updated:
Afrikaans
Albanian
Armenian
Aukan
Dutch
Estonian
Gun
Hindi
Malagasy
Punjabi
Russian Russia
Saramaccan
Setswana
Slovenian
Sranantongo
Tamil
Turkish
Zulu
Please let me know if any of the revised slips above become available. Ideally I require the single slip PDF document to make the template.
Some users were getting confused with the Apply Yourself to Reading and Teaching assignment and the first week of the month. This information is usually filled in by monthly volunteers.
Hopefully the slight adjustments I have made to the window will make things clearer for both users and volunteers.
Displaying Dates
Several improvements have been made with respects to date formatting and localisation.
Genitive Dates
The application now supports genitive months. This affects specific languages, like Polish.
Drop-down list
The application now displays dates without cropping.
Date Format Specifiers
The application now supports additional date formatting specifiers. However, please note that a small handful of languages can’t use these new formatting codes – see the help topic for details.
Song Titles
There was a revision to the Hindi song book, so the following titles have been updated:
It has been many years since I made any changes to the Visits Rota application. I felt it was about time!
Visits Rota
Much of the core functionality remains the same. However, several adjustments have been made:
Improved window resizing.
New Check for Update feature.
Greek translation.
Hungarian translation.
Improved schedule customisation.
Can be started from Meeting Schedule Assistant (version 19.0.3 or higher).
One of the key things is that VisitsRota now uses the same XML / CSS / XSL functionality so you have full control over how you want the reports to look.
I am pleased to announce that there is a new version of Meeting Schedule Assistant available.
What’s New
There is now a new Tools menu on the main application window:
New Tools menu
You can start an instance ofVisitsRota from this menu.
You need to have VisitsRota version 19.0.0 (soon to be released) installed for this feature to be enabled.
Advanced Customisation
Also, the Assignments Editor has had a major overhaul. It now uses the same XML / CSS / XSL functionality as the Midweek Editor. The possibilities for customising the look and feel of your schedules is now virtually endless.
You can still customise your reports like you use to, but now it is very easy to override or extend this.
Updated Report Settings window
The above window is now calledReport Settings (instead of Export Settings) and can be found on the new Editmenu in the Editor.
Duty Assignment Slips
Duty Slips have been improved. You now select a new schedule template from the drop-down list on the Report Settings window:
Duty Assignment Slips
Several improvements have been made:
The slips look nicer.
Multiple slips per page (if you reduce your margins enough).
Since these slips are also using the new XML / CSS / XSL functionality there is nothing stopping you making further refinements to meet your needs.
Student S-89 Slips
I have started to implemented the new 10/18 edition of the S-89 Student Slip:
I have decided to show the study number on the slip (even though it is stated in the Meeting Workbook).
This is so that the student will know which of the student items they have been assigned, since there are multiple assignments of the same type on the same meeting.
At the time of writing new slip templates are available in these languages:
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Bulgarian
Chinese Simplified
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Haitian Creole
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Lingala
Maltese
Polish
Portuguese Brazil
Portuguese Portugal
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog (uses English)
Tamil
Turkish
Twi
Ukrainian
Vietnamese
Templates will be updated for other languages as soon as the updated slips become available.
Users of the software are required to send me a copy of their S-89 Slip by email and I will supply the templates in return.
There are several other minor improvements to the software. Please see the Revision Historyfor full details.
I have updated the documentation to take into account the new features in the software. Advanced customisation can be daunting so feel free to create a feature request on the Mantis BT so that I or someone else can assist you.
Latest Download
Meeting Schedule Assistant
Supported operating systems:
Windows 7 (Service Pack 1)
Windows 8.1
Windows 10
Size: 19.88 MB
Version: 19.1.3
Published: 16/05/2019
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