Stafftool, being a web-based application, of course runs in your web browser with nothing special to install or keep updated on your computer or servers. In fact, that’s one of the best parts of using web apps.
However, there’s a certain appeal to having a specialized program on your computer for some things…it makes it feel a bit more “real” to see a program icon in your dock, waiting for you to click on it to get some serious business done. Also, it would be nice to have something productive like Stafftool or your Gmail account open in something that won’t be affected by something like a Rickroll gone bad or someone’s bloated MySpace profile page that takes your entire browser down. It would be great to be able to separate the things you need open from the things that are nice to have open…but how?
The answer? Site specific browsers. In this post I’ll show you how easy it is to create a Stafftool “application” on your Mac.
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A few churches have requested the ability to have finer controls over the contents of public profiles, such as the ability to only show a person’s email address, but not their phone number. This is common when a person wants to be listed in the public directory, but doesn’t necessarily want all of their info to be made available, just a minimal set so other people know they’re there and can contact them by their preferred means. So, I just deployed the ability for public profiles to be “limited” which will allow just this.
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Just a quick little post to let you know that the latest iPhone and iPod Touch update lets you save websites directly to your home springboard screen with its own icon. So, Stafftool now has its own custom icon when you save it. To try it do the following:
- Make sure your iPhone or iPod Touch is updated to version 1.1.3
- Go to your Stafftool (http://yoursubdomain.stafftool.com) in Mobile Safari
- When you’re on your dashboard screen, click the + icon on the bottom bar
- Click the “Add to Home Screen” button
- On the resulting dialog, shorten the name to just “Stafftool” and wait until the image of the dashboard on the icon turns to the Stafftool icon
- Click the “Add” button
You will now have a button that will take you directly to your Stafftool right from the home screen!
When you first start with a new Stafftool account, you’re faced with a somewhat daunting task — filling it up. The main obstacle is filling up the people section with all the people involved with your organization - staff members, congregation, visitors, etc. You probably already have some of these people entered into some sort of existing system, such as your own personal Mac Address Book or Outlook, or in some spreadsheet files spread across a few staff members’ computers. Your main options are to a) type everything in yourself, b) have someone else type everything in, or c) use Stafftool’s people importing tools to do it all automatically. In this post, we’ll go over option c, since that is clearly the preferable choice 
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