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News You Can Use: Enhancements in The Raiser's Edge 7.91

Posted: May 11, 2009 by Kevin Brunson | with 8 comment(s) |
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After a long weekend I decided to write about something fun and exciting, enhancements in The Raiser’s Edge 7.91.  This version, scheduled for release in late June, has several features that will help your organization and make your users smile.  I’ve already posted about several changes (PCI Update, Password Changes, and Credit Card Changes), please read them if you haven’t.

Export specific attribute descriptions - You’ll be able to export attribute descriptions if the attribute data type is a table.  For example, you may have an attribute for Interests; this has values of golf, soccer, football, baseball, etc.  With this enhancement, you can select which value(s) to export rather than exporting all values.

Drag and Drop Queries into Folders - If you use the Query folder feature that was added in version 7.85, you’ll now be able to highlight and drop queries and drop them into your query folders.

SQL 2008 compatibility - This version of Raiser’s Edge is compatible with SQL Server 2008.  If you use SQL Server 2000 or 2005, these editions are still supported.

There will be more posts about new this version on The User's Edge blog as we get closer to the release date.


Comments

Mark Barnes said:

<b>Export specific attribute descriptions<b> - this will be a definite plus. Great! Also looking forward to dragging and dropping queries into folders. Any chance we could have folders for export too? Seems strange not to.

# May 14, 2009 11:27 AM

Arpy Bedrossian said:

how can we obtain the new release?

# May 21, 2009 6:03 PM

Kevin Brunson said:

Hi Mark, currently there are no plans for Export folders.  I agree that it would be nice.

# May 22, 2009 9:33 AM

Kevin Brunson said:

Hi Arpy - version 7.91 is scheduled for release in late June.  At that time it will be announced in the newsletters, and will be available for download on the website.

# May 27, 2009 7:55 AM

Martin Porcas said:

Hello! We've not had the chance to upgrade to 7.85 yet (mainly due to staff leaving). Is this going to affect our plans to upgrade to 7.91 in July? Will we have to upgrade via 7.85 or can we go directly to 7.91? Thanks

# May 29, 2009 7:48 AM

Kevin Brunson said:

Hi Martin - if your organization is currently using The Raiser’s Edge 7.82 or higher, you can upgrade directly to version 7.91.

If you're using version 7.81 or lower, we recommend updating to version 7.85 prior to installing version 7.91.

# May 29, 2009 7:58 AM

Chris Propper said:

What about being able to export the Attribute Category (ie the name) as well?  That would be very helpful when looking at the results outside RE.

# May 29, 2009 10:54 AM

Kevin Brunson said:

Hi Chris - the Attribute Category is not an available field to export, though I agree it would help when viewing results outside of RE.

# June 1, 2009 3:29 PM
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