📋 Overview

Anvilor 1.17 & 1.18 included lots of enhancements that improve both the end-user form data entry experience, as well as gearing up for the enhancing of Anvilor as a “platform” for improving the builder experience. One of the goals we’ve identified is to ensure Anvilor can service as a functional platform with convenient tools for both collection, as well as subsequently managing & viewing collected data with intelligent reporting tools.

There has been lots of “behind-the-scenes” work on this front that we can’t wait to release and start using in our solutions! For now, I can leave you with some of the updates we have released.

🚀 Key Updates

Form Enhancements

We enhanced our form capabilities for date controls to use a fully-responsive calendar picker that renders based on whether the user device supports touch. This helps ensure simple and accurate date entry no matter what device the form is being rendered on, and it integrates with the device’s native date entry to allow for standard & efficient date entry.

We also enhanced the design of our Auction forms to better present bidders key information needed in a clean and comprehensive manner. This improves the experience for bidders and allows for better management and placing of bids!

 We also had a few "fixups" on forms for

• Address autocomplete properly setting "place name" in addition to other detailed items like the address "county", etc.
• Properly showing/hiding of next/previous buttons in "Stepper" form layouts that

Arbitrary Custom-Rules

We introduced a new tool for running arbitrary “scripts”. With this, AppSmiths are able to build completely custom solutions that allow for on demand:

• Sending of email communications
• Operating on a set of Anvilor Form Responses
• Webhook integration to communicate with other services and other custom programs
• and more!

complete with tracking/logging, error handling, and

🔎 Looking Ahead

Throughout the next several sprints, Anvilor will be introducing features that fuel the platform’s ability to visualize and get insightful reports from data, make it easy to model & validate data, and orchestrate more complex workflows for

-Tim Kutcher (Founder)

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📋 Overview

Anvilor 1.15 & 1.16 included several key enhancements as well as a planned internal maintenance period. Together, the work in 1.15 and 1.16 paves the way for more rapid platform enhancements in 1.17 and beyond for more flexible data management and reporting.

Admittedly, this is not the most “exciting” of release notes - but we worked on some core stuff so that the next highlights post will be more exciting 😬.

🚀 Key Updates

Data Synchronization with Anvilor Form “Hooks”

• We introduced a new beta concept to Anvilor Forms, called a “Form Hook”, that serves as way for Anvilor Forms to receive integration/web-hooks from external services.
• This allows Forms extensions to have more integration power in updating Form data, particularly in standard plugins like Auctions and Raffles for updating information about Auction Items, Ticket availability, etc.

Permissions & Security Model Improvement

• We enhanced our security model to allow for more specified control of system actions.
• This allows Org Admins to better control permissions of Users within their Org and the various parts of the system they have access to.
• It also allows us to build integrations with limited and explicit access (particularly in regards to access to invoking individual Anvilor Form Hooks)

🔎 Looking Ahead

Next up we will be using these advancements to add features in the Anvilor Portal for Users, particularly Form Builders, to gain better insights to their data. We plan to roll out a powerful “reporting” engine that will allow for comprehensive viewing and summarization of Form Responses with custom filtering, derivations, and more!

-Tim Kutcher (Founder)

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📋 Overview

Throughout the Anvilor 1.13 and 1.14 development periods we made great progress on both the functionality of the product, as well as our internal processes and systems for managing custom client solutions. Much of our efforts were focused on architectural planning for future integrations with external services for enhanced payment capabilities, performance, and more!

🚀 Key Updates

Internal Process Improvement

• One of our focuses, recently, has been on ensuring our ability to craft customized solutions for our customers in an efficient manner.
• Often, advanced forms of custom solutions require some extra “plugin code” to be written to handle unique use cases.
• We have been emphasizing our capabilities to service these needs by building the infrastructure for our software developers to manage the deployment of these custom solutions.
• With this infrastructure we have been able to support numerous customers' custom solutions already!

Submission Handling Enhancements

• Form submission handling was enhanced to allow custom email addresses to be used in the sending of emails.
• Submission handling was also enhanced to better support mapping “linked” data to target systems such as quickbase.

Technology Updates & Fix-ups!

• We addressed a few issues that were leading to inconsistent performance in forms that supported address lookup.
• We also fixed an issue with making file attachment fields required.
• Lastly, we updated our core web applications to the latest framework.

🔎 Looking Ahead

The next Anvilor sprints look to add core “admin” functionality to the product with users having the ability to manage multiple users within their organization, and control permissions of those users. We also look to enhance more of our auction/raffle product offerings for more automation and payment facilitation. Lastly, we look to add some more reporting capabilities for Anvilor Form responses.

-Tim Kutcher (Founder)

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📋 Overview

Welcome to our monthly (well, bi-bi-weekly) updates! In these posts we will provide an overview of recent developments and key enhancements to the Anvilor platform to keep Anvilor customers informed on the latest and greatest features available. We will also occasionally share some customer success stories to showcase some real “cause-growing” solutions that Anvilor supports and some neat use cases for our technology.

For some context - Anvilor product development operates on two-week cycles where we publish updates at the end of each cycle as a new version (such as “Anvilor 1.11”). We will make these posts every even version number to recap the enhancements from the previous two cycles (hence the “bi-bi-weekly” - not a typo!).

For 1.11 & 1.12 Anvilor platform development focused largely on enhancements with logic capabilities, more support for files & attachments, and enhancing the form-building tool. Read more below!

🚀 Key Updates

Donation Page Enhancements

• Donation Pages were updated to support user-defined “quick-set” buttons to customize the default values that donors would be presented when making a donation.
• We also added support for some pre-defined “themes” to support quickly styling a Donation Page

“Basic” Form-Building Mode

• We are releasing a beta version of “Basic” form-building mode that allows form builders to quickly assemble simplistic forms where they only need to specify question type (text field, multi-select, etc.), and a label!
• With Basic Form-Building mode, builders still have the option to hook in to all the power of Forms configuration and specify custom controls, hide/disable logic, and more!

Enhanced File Support

• We enhanced our files & attachment support to make it easier to send files to other systems.
• We also made an enhancement to better support conditional logic with file fields and for working with lists of multiple files/attachments.

Form Performance Improvements

• A few key performance improvements were made on Forms to make for even faster load times and faster logic evaluation.
• This offers a nice speed improvement, particularly for large forms with lots of conditionally visible fields that are often hidden!

🔎 Looking Ahead

With Anvilor 1.13 & Anvilor 1.14 we will be planning to enhance our integrations with Stripe and provide more utilities for managing payments and donations. We also will continue to enhance our form building experience and our ability to work with custom plugin logic! Follow along to see what we have coming out next!

-Tim Kutcher (Founder)

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I love solving problems, and my favorite challenge is helping people solve their own. My inspiration to attack this “meta problem,” if you will, is the catalyst for the founding of the company which I am excited to introduce to you today: Anvilor.

Throughout the last five or so years working as a software engineer, I’ve gotten the opportunity to solve a lot of “real world” problems - primarily for non-profits and other “community-focused” organizations. I’ve witnessed the incredible impact these organizations have on communities, yet I’ve also seen the many challenges they face. Especially when it comes to technology, many of these organizations struggle with modernizing their systems and getting access to the unique solutions and digital tools which help them achieve their missions

Anvilor was born out of a desire to empower these organizations with advanced, customizable digital solutions that simplify operations, boost engagement, and increase fundraising capabilities. By providing innovative solutions tailored specifically for these community-focused and mission-driven organizations, Anvilor aims to empower these organizations to focus more on their core missions and less on the logistical hurdles that often impede their progress.

👋 Introducing Anvilor

Fueled by a mission to “empower people to grow their cause,” Anvilor emphasizes a versatile and user-focused low code approach to bring next generation digital solutions to communities & organizations with a platform comprised of:

• Digital Fundraising Tools to run digital silent auctions, raffles, donation pages, and more. With a friendly donor tipping model, Anvilor is able to offer these fundraising opportunities for no upfront subscription costs.
• Smart Forms to launch advanced and highly customized forms solutions for collecting data for event management, community engagement, surveys, and more. We bring a skilled professional services team to support these custom solutions without the typical costs of software development & engineering.
• Workflow & Integration Capabilities to seamlessly fit into existing systems and enhance operations. Our platform supports solutions which accept online payments, trigger email communications, and sync data with external systems.

To learn a little more about what we do, check out the rest of the website at anvilor.com!

🚀 Let's Get Started

The inspiration for Anvilor comes from a personal belief that technology can be a powerful force for good, capable of amplifying the efforts of those dedicated to making the world a better place. If you’re looking to streamline your operations, amplify your impact, and grow your cause, we’d love to partner with you. Together, we can build powerful solutions that make a difference!

Thank you for taking the time to learn about Anvilor. There is still a lot to learn, and an endless number of problems to solve - I look forward to this journey and the incredible work we will accomplish together!

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-Tim Kutcher (Founder)