CDOL 2.4.1 Release

We have released CDOL version 2.4.1.
The main features are:

1. A user preferences page has been added (see My Account up by the logout link). This lets users control the default settings for their home page and which sections expand automatically on an organization's main page.
2. A user is automatically redirected to the sign-in page when the user's session times-out.
3. The search results can now be displayed in a printer-friendly format.
4. Users using the Advanced Search are now able to show hierarchical relationships when grouped by Church location. The hierarchical results is supported in the printer-friendly page as well as the export to a spreadsheet.

For the full list of changes see the release notes.
If you see any problems please report them through the feedback link in the application, or here in the forum.

One of the problems being reported through the support desk is that user's with desktop shortcuts to cdol can't use them anymore. In order to get the shortcut to work, they first have to go to cdol.lds.org and then create a new shortcut.

Here is additional information from the support group:
Hi, Rick,
I’ve had several people call in or email me saying that they can’t get into the new CDOL since the new version came out. The problem seems to be the URL used by the shortcut: I don’t have the exact shortcut, but it is something like: https://cdol.lds.org/cdol/security/signin.jsf, or something like that. I have had them change the URL to: https://cdol.lds.org/ and that has always let them get in.
Thank you.


--Mel

partridgerm wrote: I don’t have the exact shortcut, but it is something like: https://cdol.lds.org/cdol/security/signin.jsf, or something like that.

I'll bet it is related to the deep linking feature we added, but I haven't been able to duplicate it. If I use this url I get in but am given a

Sorry, the requested file does not exist.

error, but I am in just fine.

If I can get the actual url I can try with that.

I've created and saved a directory in CDOL 2.4.1 so I can more easily see ward and stake leaders, with the following options:
Level 1: Stake, Primary Contact
Level 2: Stake, Child Ward, Primary Contact
Address: Delivery Location
Phone: Home, Mobile
Email
Sort: Hierarchy, 2 columns

I don't get 2 columns -- maybe because the report isn't large enough. I don't get the address.

Can someone please help me understand what I am doing wrong?

Thanks.
David

freewholly wrote: I don't get 2 columns -- maybe because the report isn't large enough.

That is it. The second column will be used once it hits the bottom of the page.

freewholly wrote: Address: Delivery Location
...
I don't get the address.

There are 2 reasons that the addresses don't show up:
1) There aren't Delivery Location addresses for your stake and wards (there are mailing addresses for the primary contacts)
2) It looks like there is a bug/feature that the addresses don't show up on the 2 column report. It might have been done because of space issues.

ryan jones wrote:We have released CDOL version 2.4.1.

For the full list of changes see the release notes.
If you see any problems please report them through the feedback link in the application, or here in the forum.

The "release notes" quoted above explain that a ward clerk is an "authorized user," and "authorized users" can

View all public non sensitive data.
View current unit boundary maps.

However, ward clerks do not seem to have access to their own units' boundary map, or have I missed a button somewhere in CDOL? I believe past discussions have said this is a "permissions" issue. If the Ward Clerk is responsible for the integrity of his membership data, who could explain why the "official" boundary map cannot be available to him for this purpose?

Replies to "feedback" pointed me to the new beta "membership locator" for the unit boundary, but this is incorrect. It's not the official boundary, and it is incorrect in our case. I need access to the "official" map, but apparently it is not available to a local unit?

Ryan,

When attempting to display a boundary map for our stake I receive the following error;

Error Message: /organization/unitPdfMaps.xhtml @44,82 value="#{unitPdfMapBean.maps[mapSize]}": java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Socket not created by this factory.
Error Code: 500
Target Servlet: Faces Servlet
Error Stack:

kisaac wrote:The "release notes" quoted above explain that a ward clerk is an "authorized user," and "authorized users" can



However, ward clerks do not seem to have access to their own units' boundary map, or have I missed a button somewhere in CDOL? I believe past discussions have said this is a "permissions" issue. If the Ward Clerk is responsible for the integrity of his membership data, who could explain why the "official" boundary map cannot be available to him for this purpose?

Replies to "feedback" pointed me to the new beta "membership locator" for the unit boundary, but this is incorrect. It's not the official boundary, and it is incorrect in our case. I need access to the "official" map, but apparently it is not available to a local unit?

The wiki page use to indicate that viewing the maps was for stake level rights. I will add that back in. If viewing them at the ward level is desired I would recommend sending feedback through CDOL and give the reasons it would be beneficial.

Techgy wrote:Ryan,

When attempting to display a boundary map for our stake I receive the following error;

This is a known issue, we had 2 new servers added to CDOL and they are having issues with seeing the maps. When you login look down at the footer and you can see which server you are on. chqpvuu4108 and chqpvuu4109 are the new ones. chqpvuu4132 and chqpvuu4133 are the old ones and viewing the maps should work fine there.

ryan jones wrote:The wiki page use to indicate that viewing the maps was for stake level rights. I will add that back in.

Actually under the CDOL Capabilities section it did mention that. I have updated the Authorized users section.

ryan jones wrote:This is a known issue, we had 2 new servers added to CDOL and they are having issues with seeing the maps. When you login look down at the footer and you can see which server you are on. chqpvuu4108 and chqpvuu4109 are the new ones. chqpvuu4132 and chqpvuu4133 are the old ones and viewing the maps should work fine there.

The server that I'm seeing is:
Version 2.4.1-rev.9830, db:20100413164507, chqpvuu4109
which is one of the two newer servers. I didn't see any way of choosing which server I get aside from repeated logons.

Techgy wrote:The server that I'm seeing is:
Version 2.4.1-rev.9830, db:20100413164507, chqpvuu4109
which is one of the two newer servers. I didn't see any way of choosing which server I get aside from repeated logons.

Unfortunately there isn't any way to choose.
This issue is being worked on, but for now you will have to close your browser and try again until you get one of the older servers.

One of the principle reasons ward/branch clerks and leaders have not had access to the maps previously is that in the majority of units, ward/branch detail maps were not available. The Mapping division at Church headquarters has a standard process to produce pdf maps of stakes and districts. However, since there are over 20,000 wards and nearly 8,000 branches, the Mapping division does not have enough resources to maintain pdf maps for wards and branches.

The good news is that relief is coming via LDSMaps.org. Their current beta version will provide authorized users access to view their maps boundaries and it also shows the households within those boundaries.

I'm curious to know why CDOL is now checking browser compatibility upon launch. The Missionary Online Recommendation System has also been doing this for years and now I get a message on both sites stating I'm using an incompatible browser (Safari).

I find it hard to believe that these sites can't be made to be compatible with all browsers as millions of other sites don't seem to have multi-browswer compatibility issues. Is this something that is temporary I hope?

Thank you.

macsense wrote:I'm curious to know why CDOL is now checking browser compatibility upon launch. The Missionary Online Recommendation System has also been doing this for years and now I get a message on both sites stating I'm using an incompatible browser (Safari).

I find it hard to believe that these sites can't be made to be compatible with all browsers as millions of other sites don't seem to have multi-browswer compatibility issues. Is this something that is temporary I hope?

Thank you.

Another one? My browser is incompatible, too. Firefox 3.5. The popup says I need to be using 2.x or later. I guess 3.5 does not qualify.

When the popup began at the Missionary Online Recommendation System, I sent a query to them. They responded that it was just an informational thing and that they did not have time to test a whole lot of browsers. If the browser worked, I should continue to use it. If it did not, I should use another more standard browser.

I do not think they really understood the nuisance they are causing with this.

At the very least, they ought to program the page so that a simple enter would kill the box, instead of triggering the underlying page and a nasty note that the login or password (not) entered was incorrect.

My last think is that the people who program these things do not have to use them. It may be well-intentioned. It is still a nuisance.

ryan jones wrote:This is a known issue, we had 2 new servers added to CDOL and they are having issues with seeing the maps. When you login look down at the footer and you can see which server you are on. chqpvuu4108 and chqpvuu4109 are the new ones. chqpvuu4132 and chqpvuu4133 are the old ones and viewing the maps should work fine there.

This issue has been resolved. All the servers can now access the maps.

ryan jones wrote:This issue has been resolved. All the servers can now access the maps.

Ryan,

Thanks for the update and your efforts. It's appreciated.

Doesn't CDOL list more than the bishop in a ward? I have just logged in for the first time and that is all I am finding. Is there another level of access or another link?

zaneclark wrote:Doesn't CDOL list more than the bishop in a ward? I have just logged in for the first time and that is all I am finding. Is there another level of access or another link?

Depending on your calling, you may well see a "Show All Positions" link right by the POSITIONS heading. Clicking on that will show all the positions in the ward, grouped by organization. Standard callings are in black, custom callings are in orange. But for some people, the Show All Positions link will not be visible. And if you browse to a stake other than your own, you'll never see the Show All Positions link.

Alan_Brown wrote:

zaneclark wrote:Doesn't CDOL list more than the bishop in a ward? I have just logged in for the first time and that is all I am finding. Is there another level of access or another link?

Depending on your calling, you may well see a "Show All Positions" link right by the POSITIONS heading. Clicking on that will show all the positions in the ward, grouped by organization. Standard callings are in black, custom callings are in orange. But for some people, the Show All Positions link will not be visible. And if you browse to a stake other than your own, you'll never see the Show All Positions link.

All the callings that have rights to CDOL (see here) have rights to see "Show All Positions" within their Stake/District.

That being said someone recently gave some rights to Ward Assistant Clerk - Membership and didn't give them all the rights of other callings. I need to find out if they should have rights (I would be in favor of it) and if so confirm that they should match the other ward level rights.

zaneclark - since you are a membership clerk that is why you don't see any additional callings in your ward.

ryan jones wrote:That being said someone recently gave some rights to Ward Assistant Clerk - Membership and didn't give them all the rights of other callings. I need to find out if they should have rights (I would be in favor of it) and if so confirm that they should match the other ward level rights.

Ward Assistant Clerk - Membership has now been given the same rights as Ward Clerk.

ryan jones wrote:Ward Assistant Clerk - Membership has now been given the same rights as Ward Clerk.

That's good, but what about other assistant clerks at the ward level? It seems a bit odd that the membership clerk would be singled out. Other assistant clerks may very well have many of the same needs. For example, an assistant clerk with responsibility for statistics may need to contact a variety of auxiliary leaders, so that information would be helpful.

At the stake level, all assistant clerks have access to "Show All Positions" in the CDOL. Why not do the same at the ward level?

Alan_Brown wrote:That's good, but what about other assistant clerks at the ward level? It seems a bit odd that the membership clerk would be singled out. Other assistant clerks may very well have many of the same needs. For example, an assistant clerk with responsibility for statistics may need to contact a variety of auxiliary leaders, so that information would be helpful.

At the stake level, all assistant clerks have access to "Show All Positions" in the CDOL. Why not do the same at the ward level?

At the ward level the only other standard assistant clerk position is finance.

Also now everyone in the ward has the ability to see all positions (currently only the standard positions) through the beta directory.

ryan jones wrote:At the ward level the only other standard assistant clerk position is finance.

That's not true. There is a Ward Assistant Clerk standard position in both MLS and CDOL.

ryan jones wrote:Also now everyone in the ward has the ability to see all positions (currently only the standard positions) through the beta directory.

That's true, but I don't see how it bears on the question of which ward assistant clerks have rights to login to CDOL, and what permissions they have once they have logged in.

ryan jones wrote:All the callings that have rights to CDOL (see here) have rights to see "Show All Positions" within their Stake/District.

That being said someone recently gave some rights to Ward Assistant Clerk - Membership and didn't give them all the rights of other callings. I need to find out if they should have rights (I would be in favor of it) and if so confirm that they should match the other ward level rights.

zaneclark - since you are a membership clerk that is why you don't see any additional callings in your ward.

Thank you for responding...I was curious as to why I now had at least some access to CDOL. I hope this is a permanent change and also that full access might be coming. As the ward membership clerk and web administrator for both the ward and stake it would be advantageous to have this access occasionally.

As a side note, why are these recent posts on this topic not showing on the home page under Recent Forum Posts?

ryan jones wrote:Ward Assistant Clerk - Membership has now been given the same rights as Ward Clerk.

This is great but now I can see my own ward, and nothing in the stake or other wards in the stake. Maybe this a trade-off.... full access for my own ward in exchange for no access to others...

zaneclark wrote:This is great but now I can see my own ward, and nothing in the stake or other wards in the stake. Maybe this a trade-off.... full access for my own ward in exchange for no access to others...

That was a minor:o mistake by the person granting rights. And I missed it when I looked at the rights too.
It has been fixed now

ryan jones wrote:We have released CDOL version 2.4.1.
For the full list of changes see the release notes.
If you see any problems please report them through the feedback link in the application, or here in the forum.

OK, here is where I am with CDOL. I am the membership clerk and as of today I have access to CDOL or at least the access I need most. I can get into all the positions in my ward and in the stake but only the bishop in any other ward. The access I have is the most useful to me, but access to positions in other wards would be helpful at times.

zaneclark wrote:OK, here is where I am with CDOL. I am the membership clerk and as of today I have access to CDOL or at least the access I need most. I can get into all the positions in my ward and in the stake but only the bishop in any other ward. The access I have is the most useful to me, but access to positions in other wards would be helpful at times.

That is what has been given to ward callings with CDOL rights.

Stake level callings that have rights can see all callings for their stake and all child units. Ward level callings can see all callings for their ward and their stake.

For all other units they can both see just the callings on the summary page. For a Ward that is just the Bishop. For a stake it is the Stake President, 2 councilors, patriarchs, all clerks (including assistant), executive secretary and assistant executive secretary.

Alan_Brown wrote:

ryan jones wrote:At the ward level the only other standard assistant clerk position is finance.

That's not true. There is a Ward Assistant Clerk standard position in both MLS and CDOL.

So it's not clear to me, Ryan. Is the membership clerk singled out as the only ward-level assistant clerk with access to CDOL? That's what the CDOL wiki article says.

Alan_Brown wrote:So it's not clear to me, Ryan. Is the membership clerk singled out as the only ward-level assistant clerk with access to CDOL? That's what the CDOL wiki article says.

Currently yes that is correct. I have started a discussion about the other ward assistant clerks, but I don't know what the decision will be.

ryan jones wrote:Currently yes that is correct. I have started a discussion about the other ward assistant clerks, but I don't know what the decision will be.

All ward assistant clerks now have access granted.

ryan jones wrote:All ward assistant clerks now have access granted.

That's good news! Thanks, Ryan, for following up on this issue.

Alan_Brown wrote:That's good news! Thanks, Ryan, for following up on this issue.

Good news, indeed! My fellow assistant membership clerk thanks you as well (for giving me one less reason to annoy him).

Ryan, I wanted to point out that new.lds.org does not appear to show the CDOL link for Assistant Clerks at this time whereas for other callings it does. Could that list be updated to include the new authorized callings view ability?

kgthunder wrote:Ryan, I wanted to point out that new.lds.org does not appear to show the CDOL link for Assistant Clerks at this time whereas for other callings it does. Could that list be updated to include the new authorized callings view ability?

Good catch. Fortunately that is in progress. The list of ward/branch assistant clerks was given to people today to start that process. When the list of callings that could see the CDOL link was first made the ward/branch assistant clerks didn't have rights so that is why they didn't make the list previously.