huulo - ICF Church

We're excited to announce a lot of new features! Most notably, our app menu is now fully customizable, giving you even greater control over your app. We've also added custom pages, which means that you can create your own app pages tailored to your unique needs. And that's not all - we're thrilled to let you know that a new start page and news feed module is coming soon, which will keep your users up to date on all the latest happenings at your event.

We can't wait for you to check out all these new features and give us feedback. And yes, we also added a handy icon picker… 😜

Added	New app menu configurator!
Added	New icon picker!
Added	Custom pages!
Added	New image color extractor (moving logic from frontend to backend)
Added	Youtube, Tiktok, LinkedIn and website for speakers (frontend update coming soon…)
Added	List pending account invitations incl. delete invitation button
Added	Account email log to see emails of all events
Added	Added country name to speaker list
Changed	Refactored event languages. Default language is not changeable anymore.
Changed	Refactored account and event settings. Moved account settings to top right.
Changed	A lot of small visual improvements
Changed	Optimized performance
Changed	Moved support chat / docs to top right
Fixed	Fixed account invitation. Check for existing users.
Fixed	Manual event registration
Fixed	Fixed app icon generator script.
Fixed	Lots of other bug fixes.

December 2022

This is one of the biggest releases so far! 🚀 We upgraded the whole backend of the huulo platform to a new version of the framework. After several months of hard work and more than 400 (!) commits later we finally pushed the new release into production. If you have any problems, please let us know (support@huulo.io). We also did some small changes here and there to improve usability.

Added	Info items are now sortable as well
Changed	Changed tab order of program item date and time fields
Changed	Updated fontawesome library to support latest icon names
Changed	Speaker country is not a required field anymore
Fixed	Fixed import users without email addresses (e.g. family members)
Fixed	Added error message on huulo sign-up form
Fixed	Check and show error message on empty and required wysiwyg fields
Fixed	Ignore misconfigured custom domains

April 2022

It was quite in the last few months but as always a lot was going on… :-) Here the latest changes:

We re-engineered our infrastructure to improve scalability and performance
We now support the frontend as a PWA out of the box! Hurra!! 🎉
We can now autom. connect custom domains without manual steps involved from our side.
We developed a new module called “connect” - more about this coming soon.
We almost finished the branding/pricing process and can soon announce the product under the new name and look! Stay tuned!

Added	New connect feature (beta)
Added	Activity loading skeleton
Added	New field “state” to user address
Added	Speaker description field
Added	Check if push api is supported
Added	Push notifications (beta) - whaat? More coming soon…
Added	Gender/salutation field to user profile
Added	Docker setup for local dev
Added	First version of crowdflash (experimental)
Added	Public profiles and people directory
Added	Privacy settings
Added	iOS install prompt
Added	Cookie consent
Added	Autom. custom domain setup
Added	User export (csv)
Added	Update existing user on import (tags) and api (tags+reservations)
Security	Refactored and improved authentication
Changed	Re-engineered and improved infrastructure
Changed	Changed API url to new endpoint
Changed	Copy existing profile image to new signup
Changed	Sign-up via google - not supported anymore
Changed	Migrated session handling to database instead of file
Changed	Refactored and improved lots of code
Fixed	Color calc for activity categories
Fixed	If signup disabled, redirect to home
Fixed	Profile contact form
Fixed	Chat bubble visibility
Fixed	Icon generation, added --skip-trim
Fixed	Changing email of currently logged in user
Fixed	Delete speaker image
Fixed	Fixed several other bugs
Removed	Unused packages / dependencies
Removed	Unused and legacy code
Removed	isVolunteer property - use tags instead

June 2021

It's not even been 3 months since the last release but there are already 185 new commits in the code! :-) Tja, our annual ICF Conference is always a big booster for new features and ideas. Let's start:

We added the first API endpoint to create new users. And there are already some nice things like: sign-up the user to an activity or tag the user. Use Zapier or other automation tools to combine e.g. your forms with the endpoint and automate even more!

We also added webhooks! Connect the Event App CMS with endless other tools (e.g. via Zapier) and integrate it with your existing systems. Just one example: Send a webhook to Zapier and use Twillio (SMS provider) to send a text message to the user after the registration has been completed. Or an email. Or send the data into a Google Sheet. Or both ... endless options! 🥳

Next. Custom domains! 🎉 This is big. Make your event app available under your own domain e.g. app.mychurch.com or icfconference.app etc. You can also upload your own favicon now.

There have been a lot of smaller improvements and fixes to make the whole platform more robust. We are still working on integrating a PWA version of the frontend. The current version is only a SPA. What's the different?! We won't go into that - too technical... but PWA is better! 🤓

Please let us know if you have any feature requests or feedback! And we hope you like the new backend design... Cu! 🤙🏻

Added	Event Users now have address fields on their profile (backend only - frontend coming soon).
Fixed	Fixed empty reply-to address.
Fixed	Fixed registration open/close date validation on backend.
Added	Added the first API endpoint: user/create!
Added	Added webhooks! Supported events: registration create/delete/checkin/checkout, user create/update/delete.
Added	Added a new field to see how a user has been created (api, sign-up, manually, family-added).
Deprecated	isVolunteer field on elements is deprecated and will be replaced with tags.
Added	Introduced "tags" to tag program, info, activity category elements and make them only visible to certain groups of people.
Added	Added new password reset controller. Now you can customize the password reset email!
Added	Upload your own app favicon.
Added	Add a custom domain to your event app.
Changed	Improved backend design.
Changed	Change password page now uses the users language if available.
Added	Added new field for replyTo address on activities.
Added	You can now create and delete activity events in the frontend as well.
Added	Added lastLoginAt date to user profile in backend.
Fixed	Fixed invalid date bug on program page (frontend).
Added	Added image cropper to optimize and autoscale uploaded images.
Removed	Removed unused plugins.
Added	Added new placeholder in email template to add link to activity.
Changed	Refactored and improved user import feature via csv.
Fixed	Fixed duplicate registrations.
Added	Added new description field on activity category.
Changed	Improved registration list in backend.
Removed	Removed event duplicate feature.
Added	Added form error messages.
Added	Added new setting on activity to enable/disable contact form.
Changed	You can now also contact an organiser without being logged-in.
Fixed	Fixed contact form to support line breaks and basic html formatting.
Added	Added basic stats page.
Changed	Improved email log in backend.
Fixed	Fixed order of activity events in frontend.
Fixed	Fixed password reset to allow reset for all events.
Fixed	Fixed order of attendees.
Fixed	Fixed app icon generator where in certain cases the icon was not generated.
Added	Added some new api endpoints for upcoming releases and new features.

March 2021

It's been a while since the last release. But we got some nice updates in the last few weeks. The biggest of all: we improved the design for desktop users. Till now the webapp didn't look quite nice on desktops. It was streched and clumpsy. When we did the new design last year we focused on mobile users. Now the booklet looks the same on desktops. :-) Open our church webapp on a desktop to check it out: https://icf.app

Added	Frontend: New desktop design to improve the experience for desktop users.
Changed	Frontend: Changed login email field to email type instead of text type.
Changed	Frontend: Improved login form by removing spaces in email address or password.
Added	Frontend: Added some more missing translation strings.
Added	Backend: Registrations can now be moved to another event.
Added	Backend: You can now add your own SMTP server settings to control the sender domain of all the notification emails.
Changed	Backend: Changed DB charset to utf8mb4 to support 💪🏻😀🎉 (emojis).
Added	Backend: Improved email templates service. You can now customize the email templates in the system.
Added	Backend: You can now add paid tickets to an event and can collect money via Payrexx payment links. This feature is not publicly available yet and still in BETA.
Added	Backend: Added new email templates for registering and unregistering.
Added	Backend: You can now manually add new registrations to an event. If the quota is reached, the quota gets increased +1.
Fixed	Frontend: Activity title not showing in the My Registration list.
Removed	Removed unused code.
Fixed	Backend: Fixed show upcoming/past events correctly.
Changed	Backend: The activity category field on an activity is now required.
Fixed	Backend: Clone events is working again.
Changed	Backend: To organise current and past webapps you can now set a status. This has no impact to your users.

November 2020

There is more flexibility to manage attendees in the backend. You can now add (manually or existing users) or remove registration. And you can also move attendees from one event to another. There has been some refactoring so the breadcrumb menu makes more sense now. :-)

Added	Manage attendees in backend (add, remove, move)
Added	List temporary accesses on category
Added	Copy/duplicate existing events to make activity event management faster.
Added	Added "hidden" and "publish on" settings on activity events.

We added some more check-in features! The best of all: Check-in users can get temporary access to all the check-in features by scanning a QR code from an admin.

Added	Get temp. access to check-in features (12h) via QR code from admin.
Added	Manually register attendees via form
Added	Added new stats page per activity category to see the capacity on each event.
Removed	Booked out label on event
Fixed	Fixed permission checks on attendees list
Fixed	Fixed submenu on mobile
Added	Added release notes link to header menu

Wow, this release includes tons of new features! Let's get started: Activities, activity categories and info categories can now be linked to any internal or external page. This way you can guide your users to any website you want. We also added activity admins, so only certain people can see the attendees list, can edit the activity etc. And there is a new check-in feature on the attendees list! You can now check-in or check-out attendees very easily by swiping left resp. right. See more about all the changes below. Have a great day!

Added	Direct link on activity, activity category and info category to link anywhere in the world.
Added	Make activities sortable to define your own order.
Added	Added a new field for activity admins (activity admins can edit an activity, see and check-in attendees)
Added	New setting on a activity to show/hide the attendees list.
Changed	Removed days without any program elements in the program. So we don't see empty days.
Added	Added new check-in / check-out feature on the attendees list (swipe right to check-in and right to check-out)
Fixed	Fixed some issues with adding new family member.
Changed	Don't show past activity events
Changed	Changed activity event quota field to be required. Set -1 for unlimited seats.
Added	New setting to hide activity categories, activities and info categories in frontend.
Changed	Refactored the UI for activites and activity categories.
Added	New cleanup feature to remove non-check-in attendees from activity event.
Changed	Set brand color directly within JS and not via css from backend.
Added	Added new setting to required the mobile number on sign-up.
Added	Added activity image on activity list.
Added	Added edit profile menu item

October 2020

To get in line with our release tags we jump forward to 1.4.0. ;-) This release includes some bugfixing.

We also changed the way subdomains for your booklets are created. Until now a user could define his/her own subdomain, e.g. my-camp.booklet.camp. Now, the subdomain is generated based on the title and a random number and can not be changed after that. If you would like to have your event app available under a specific or even custom domain, please reach out to our support! We will add the support for custom domains later...

Changed	The way subdomains are created
Fixed	Debug mode
Added	Account verification via email
Fixed	Create event
Added	You can not set icons for program categories and info elements! Hurra!! 💪🏻
Added	Added a default header image if no is set
Changed	Reorganised the communication page - moved to a seperate page
Removed	Some unused code
Fixed	Select workshop category title

This is our first publicly announced release note. So let's start with v1.0.0. Our camp and event booklet services exists since 2018 and has been a great tool for big and small events and camps. We were working hard to put everything together as an online service and to make it available for others.

In this first version we are happy to announce that the service is finally ready for public. You will now be able to setup your own event or camp booklet within minutes! You can find an example here: https://churchweek.booklet.camp/

If you have any questions or feature requests, please reach out to our support via the bubble on the bottom right. We are always happy to help!

At the moment the service is availalbe for free. We will add some plans in the near future to cover the costs of development, support and infrastructure.

ICF Church

New Features

huulo v3.0.0

Finally, PWA out of the box!

Introducing API, Webhooks, Custom Domain and more...

New desktop design

Attendee management

New Check-in Features

New check-in feature!

New Release v1.4.0

🎉 📣 Let's start with some proper release notes