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SelCtlDB Version 4

(This is the version most frequently recommended for new installations.)

Changes from V3:

Ability to apply payments to multiple products
Ability to manage product pricing histories and categorizations
Improved handling of membership and subscription types and durations
Improved import functions for voter enhancement data, now located in a satellite database to allow easier updates reflecting changes in data file formats, etc

Database: The application itself, loaded with a small demonstration data set. Includes a copy of the user guide.
Technical Documentation: Technical documentation such as data model diagrams, use case descriptions used to define development tasks, flowcharts documenting how the database automation works, instructions for modifying forms, etc.

SelCtlDB Version 3

Changes from V2:

Removes portions of V2 specific to focus on natural resource protection.
Adds ability to track person information on:
- ethnicity
- languages
- race
Ability to store and recall record selection criteria
Automated creation of linked party/person records
Automated creation of linked contact/party records
Record selection tools now allow selections based on aggregate statistics like record counts, sums, averages

Database: The application itself, loaded with a small demonstration data set. Includes a copy of the user guide.
Technical Documentation: Technical documentation such as data model diagrams, use case descriptions used to define development tasks, flowcharts documenting how the database automation works, instructions for modifying forms, etc.

SelCtlDB Version 2

Developed for a natural resource advocacy organization.

Changes from V1:

Adds ability to track NEPA projects
Adds ability to track teams (action teams, etc)
- membership periods
- involvement in outreach actions
Adds tracking of grants
- deliverables
- links of deliverables to outreach
- grant milestones
Automated generation of records representing dues-paying memberships in relation to donation records

Database: The application itself, loaded with a small demonstration data set. Includes a copy of the user’s guide.
Technical Documentation: Technical documentation such as data model diagrams, use case descriptions used to define development tasks, flowcharts documenting how the database automation works, instructions for modifying forms, etc.

SelCtlDB Version 1

First, simplified implementation of the full data model. Developed for a nonprofit land trust with a strong orientation towards working with personal contacts.

Database: The application itself, loaded with a small demonstration data set. Includes a copy of the user’s guide.
Technical Documentation: Technical documentation such as data model diagrams, use case descriptions used to define development tasks, flowcharts documenting how the database automation works, instructions for modifying forms, etc.

Last modified: 14:30:49 23-Jan-2009