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Community Enterprise™ Introduction
2. Integration – CE QuickBooks Connector
3. Integration – FuseTalk Discussion Forums
4. New Channel – Grid Calendar
5. New Channel – Member Events Only Calendar
6. New Channel – Event Submission
7. New Channel – Document Directory
8. New Channel – Document – List Specific Topic
9. RSS (Real Simple Syndication)
10. Manage Your Profile Form – Enhancement
11. Membership Registration Form – Enhancement
12. Special Interest Group / Affinity Group Functionality
13. Ecommerce – Admin can remove “pay by check” option from checkout
14. Membership – Option to require password change during initial member login
15. Documents Module – Ability to modify availability link text in the document display channel
16. Contacts Module – Login Status
17. Contacts module – Login status added to quick search options on landing page
18. Contacts module – Membership search added to quick search options on landing page
19. Organizations module – Membership search added to quick search options on landing page
20. Reports module – Login tracking
21. Activities Module – Layout enhancements
22. Various fixes and enhancements
Coming Soon
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The CE Outlook Connector automates integration between Outlook and CE. This Outlook add-in allows you to send emails from Outlook 2003 directly into CE as activities in the Activity module. These activities are also appended to the relevant contact records. This feature will help clients to track a full history of communications with their constituents. You can view an online demonstration of the CE Outlook Connector here: 
The CE QuickBooks Connector automates integration between QuickBooks and CE. This feature allows you to automatically import cleared transactions from CE into QuickBooks. This feature enables clients to quickly reflect online transactions in QuickBooks and thus keep financial information accurate and well organized. 
CE 5.3 introduces another channel which had previously been done for clients as a customization. The Events Submission channel enables users on the front end of the system to submit events to the calendar. This feature enables clients to engage their members and constituents in adding content and information to the site and to the overall community of users. Administrative settings allow you to decide whether events submitted through the front end web site go directly into the calendar listing or are added to an approval queue for administrative review.
CE 5.3 introduces another channel into base code which had previously been provided to some clients as a customization. This channel (pictured at right) enables clients to display documents to users in a directory structure based on the topics and sub-topics. This channel allows users to browse through the directory to find documents. 
CE 5.3 introduces an additional document display channel called "Document – List Specific Topic." This channel (shown in graphic at right) enables clients to display all documents in a particular topic or sub-topic. 
CE 5.3 includes new RSS features. Thia RSS feature set enables several Articles channels to be syndicated as RSS feeds using the most recent RSS specification (RSS 2.0). As shown in the graphic at right, these features enable CE clients to syndicate web content to their community of users. Members, constituents, and other users can access new site information automatically using RSS readers without having to visit the web site. Additional RSS capabilities will be added to subsequent releases. 
In CE Version 5.3 clients have control over which fields display in the Manage Your Profile feature. In previous versions, there were some fixed fields in the Manage Your Profile screen. The graphic at right shows the control for this feature where various fields can be included or exclude from the form. This screen can be accessed on the left navigation of the Contacts module from the link titled “Profile Field List.” 
CE Version 5.3 introduces Special Interest Group (also called Affinity Group) functionality. Using these features, public users or members can sign up for Special Interest Groups on the web site. This functionality is useful for clients who want members or other constituents to be able to join groups or committees within the organization or community. Once users join an Affinity Group, they can access member-only content, be tracked and communicated with by group leaders and more fully participate in the community.
Version 5.3 R1 includes an option which allows an administrator to turn off the checkbox option that says “Click here if you’d like to pay by check or money order.” When this option is deselected, this feature will not appear in the events ecommerce check out screen of CE. 
With the 5.3 release, there is a new Login Status setting field in the Login tab of the contact profile (shown at right). When this field is set to inactive, it disallows the contact from logging into CE in any capacity – as a member, administrator, event attendee, and so forth. With this feature an administrator can easily enable or disable system login privileges without modifying the user record in any other way. 
With the 5.3 release, there is a new Login Status search option on the quick search dashboard of the landing page of the Individuals Contact module (shown in graphic at right). With this feature, an administrator can filter contacts based on whether the Login Status field is set to Active or Inactive in the Login tab of an individual profile record. For instance, while this option is enabled and set to "Active," the contacts displayed in the Individuals module will only include those that have an active login status. All inactive contacts will not be displayed. This feature can be switched on or off so that it will only appear when it is a relevant option. 
In 5.3 a new membership search option is added to the quick search dashboard options on the landing page of the Individuals Contact module. This option provides a new and easy way to quickly view different categories of contacts such as All Contacts, All Members, Active Members, and Inactive Members. (Note – these categories of contacts can also be seen in the Membership and Reports modules). This new option filters against the Active / Inactive status field in the Membership tab of an individual profile record. This option can be switched on our off so that it will only appear on the dashboard of clients for whom it is a relevant option. 
As with the Individuals module, in 5.3 a new membership search option is added to the quick search dashboard options on the landing page of the Organizations contact module. This option provides a new and easy way to quickly view different categories of organizations such as All Contacts, All Members, Active Members, and Inactive Members. (Note – these categories of contacts can also be seen in the Membership and Reports modules). This new option filters against the Active / Inactive status field in the Membership tab of an organization profile record. This option can be switched on our off so that it will only appear on the dashboard of clients for whom it is a relevant option. 
CE 5.3 R1 provides new reporting functionality that enables administrators to track the logins and page views of members or other logged in users. This functionality provides feedback to clients about which members, users, and administrators are logging into the system and what pages they are viewing within the site. Clients can use this information to determine what content if valuable to members and how they can best enhance the value of thei
r system through the development of new content and the placement of existing content. This information is provided in several screens in the CE administrative area including: