DJ Event Planner has now officially released Version 4.2 of the web's premiere special event management software.
Significant upgrades were made to the Venue, Employee, and Equipment sections, inlcuding the addition of many new information fields. There are also several new user-interface improvements that will make the application behave more like a desktop application.
Leading the list of new functionality for multi-op companies is the addition of employee activity tracking reports. You can now see exactly what your employees have been doing on the DJEP system.
Upgrades
* Event List page: ability to display either client logon, assigned employees or salesperson
* Add/Edit Event Form: when you add a new venue using this form you can now enter the address of the venue in addition to the city, state, and room
* New Filter/Sort for Inbox messages
* Event Email Templates: AutoFill feature allows the send to field to be autofilled with any of the following email addresses related to the event: Client, Assigned Employee, Vendors, Venues
* Enhanced the look and functionality of the Event Music Manager page. In the process a few links were removed and the workflow was changed slightly.
* Email Attachments: can upload zip formatted files
* Check Availability: Can now pass submitted form variables to a Custom URL
* Increased Song Location field from 50 to 250 characters
* Duplicate Events: can now select the status of the duplicated events
* Ability to change client usernames
* Setting to make client email address the client username on the creation of a client (as long as the email address is not in use by anyone else in the system)
* Meeting Reminder Emails are now tracked via the contact manager
* Ability to edit planning form backend field names (useful for Excel exporting)
New Features
* Employee Activity Report: Tracks Logons, Creation of Planner Items, and the Addition of Events
* Unbranded Premium Membership is now available
* Can now download an Excel file containing Requests and Special Songs
* Employee Wage Tracking: Can now mark employee wages as paid from the event page or employee page
* Second Tax Field: designed primarily for Canadian Provincial Sales Tax, this is a tax that is calculated based on the total fee plus the first tax value
* Download event planning documents in Excel format
Changes
* Removed the usage of the term "Generated By" and replaced it with the more applicable "Salesperson"
* When logging on to DJEP, anyone using the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser will be warned if their popup blocker is not disabled for the site. This is because of the extremely poor way in which the default popup blocker settings work in IE.
Venue Upgrades
* Venue List search filter
* Reworked Venue Information page layout
* On the Venue information page, if entered, Email address and Website address are now links instead of static text
* Add/Edit Venue Form reworked to group similar types of data together
* New Field: Time (in minutes from office)
* New Field: Travel Fee
* New Field: Setup Fee
* New Field: Venue Category (possible values: High School, Hotel, Park, etc..)
* New Fields: 5 Additional Contacts with room to enter: Name, Position, Phone, Email, Notes
Employee Upgrades
* Slightly reorganized Add/Edit Employee Form
* New Field: Wedding Anniversary
* New Field: Website (with link)
* New Field: AIM IM (with link)
* New Field: Yahoo IM (with link)
* New Field: MSN IM (with link)
* New Field: Skype (with link)
Equipment Upgrades
* Stand-Alone equipment list filter
* Redesigned Add/Edit form
* New Field: Manufacturer (now separate from model number field)
* New Field: Rental Fee
* New Field: Addon Fee
* New Field: Insured
* Ability to import list of equipment from an Excel file
* New Function: Ability to assign pieces of equipment to a given system using a check list (Setup -> Equipment -> (Select System) -> Edit Equipment List)
