Arena
If you’ve needed to display an RSS Feed in Arena, you can accomplish this using the “XML File Transform” module. This module lets you specify an XML source and an XSLT file to use for transforming the XML. For the XML you can enter a URL to an RSS Feed. In this example, I’ve set [...]
If you are a member of the Arena developer community, I’ve uploaded our OutlookSync Application to the community. OutlookSync allows you to import Arena tag members into Microsoft Outlook as contacts. This application is used heavily by our users that have PDA devices as a way to get Arena member contact info onto their PDA [...]
Now that Jon and our infrastructure team have installed and configured Asterisk, we’ve begun to add phone system integration features to Arena. In the next couple days I’ll show the click-to-call and phone micro-browser features we’ve added, but first wanted to highlight the architecture. Although we’re using Asterisk, we implemented phone-integration similar to the ASP.NET [...]
We just finished the second Arena developer roundtable. This time in Phoenix instead of Memphis. Nick and Phil over at Central Christian Church of the East Valley (CCCEV) hosted the first day, and we (CCV) hosted the second day. Most of our conversations focused around the Arena development community and discussing ideas and ways to [...]
Last week was a busy week for us. We rolled out a new version of Arena that included significant changes to the event administration area, and also switched over to using the new “Arena” templates instead of our old “Solomon” templates. At the same time we decided to upgrade to our new SQL 2005 database [...]
Ok, its been a week since I mentioned showing the Arena Person Detail page. As promised here’s a screenshot of a Person Detail screen. This page shows just about everything we know about a particular person. When designing this page, we wanted it to.. show all pertinent data for a person in one place without [...]
By far, the most often used feature in Arena is the Quick Search. Quick Search gives users the ability to enter a partial first and/or partial last name and search the database for records who’s name match the criteria. The Quick Search option is part of the left navigation panel so it is available anywhere [...]
When we start Arena at CCV, we see this screen. This page like all the other Arena pages uses the main Arena Template. The template defines the banner, and includes the navigation module on the left and the HTML module on the bottom for the copyright message. The content specific to this welcome page are [...]
There seems to be a lot of speculation about what Arena is, what it will do, and even how successful it will be. While I can’t remove speculation about it’s success, I can address what it is, and what it can and can’t do. To that end, I’ll be blogging as much as I can [...]
In addition to being a Church Management System, Arena is also a Content Management System (CMS). Not only does this provide tight integration between an external website and the membership system, it also allows for a very flexible and extensible application. This is accomplished through a portal architecture consisting of templates, pages, modules, and roles. [...]
