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Description
miniVAN Touch is a mobile canvassing application that integrates with websites provided by NGP VAN. The miniVAN system allows users to export canvassing lists from VAN onto an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Canvassers can then enter data into their device as they talk to people on their list. When the canvassers connect their device to the Internet over a wireless or cellular network, they can upload their data back to the VAN with the touch of a button. Administrative users on the VAN can then review the data and apply it to the database in one quick step.
Canvassing with miniVAN allows NGP VAN clients to spend more time and resources on actually contacting people instead of on data entry. What’s more, it virtually eliminates the lag time between collecting canvass results and putting that data to work.
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Releasing updates every 3 months on average. Last update 102 days ago.
You need to calm down... on hitting the sync button. You can now check when the next auto sync will run on your list progress screen. Are you driving a getaway car to your turf? We've got you covered with easier links to driving directions in Google or Apple Maps.
This update
* Adds an option to get directions to your doors, you you'll see the option when you select a pin on the map, or when you press and hold on an address in list view.
* Increases the frequency of checking for new team canvassing results
* Shows the time of your next auto sync
MiniVAN performs best when you let auto sync do its job and automatically sync all your data. Auto sync is enabled on most list, and will send your data back about every 10 mins (and check to see if there's any new data from your canvassing partner)
Your MiniVAN team team is coping by writing Taylor Swift references in to the release notes and Dramione fanfiction (hit us up with recs). As always--- drink some water, eat a vegetable, and good luck on the doors.
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Bug fixes and performance improvements to support GOTV 2024
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Fixes an issue editing contact phones and emails
Fixes an annoying bug while adding contacts to lists
* Removing VAN account name log in in favor of ActionID
* Stability improvements
Fixing a crash issue we missed in our previous version
Updates and fixes including
* You’ll now see the contacts you’ve canvassed after re-downloading your list
* MiniVAN will now only show age/sex/party on lists and contact detail those fields are included on the MiniVAN format
* Fix for MiniVAN zooming out / losing the canvassers place in certain workflows
Note that this will be the last app update supporting iOS 12 or iOS 13. Make sure you have updated your devices to the latest OS for future updates
Now with Mobilize!
Finishing up a canvassing shift? Sign up for an upcoming shift right from MiniVAN.
We will be dropping support for iOS 12 and 13 in an upcoming release. Be sure your devices are updated to the latest iOS version.
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Fixes a display issue with Contact Early Vote locations. Now, pause Midnights, drink some water, and go knock some doors
This update includes a number of performance updates for GOTV
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Support for Teams and Divisions on ActionID
Support for an optional Daily Access Code for volunteers
General bug fixes and performance improvements
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Fixes an annoying crash
* Usability improvements to marking households not home
* Bug fixes
* Performance improvements
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Bug fixes and performance improvements
We’ve made a lot of changes to workflows within the app to reduce clicks and make canvassing a more intuitive experience for first-time canvassers, including:
* Combined map and household view
* Updated onboarding including a new training video
* Additional contextual training, such as prompting folks to mark a canvass result for everyone in a household
* Better inter-household navigation
* Updated iconography
* Tabbed navigation to better surface features
Bug fixes and performance improvements
We’ve made a lot of changes to workflows within the app to reduce clicks and make canvassing a more intuitive experience for first-time canvassers, including:
* Combined map and household view
* Updated onboarding including a new training video
* Additional contextual training, such as prompting folks to mark a canvass result for everyone in a household
* Better inter-household navigation
* Updated iconography
* Tabbed navigation to better surface features
We’ve made a lot of changes to workflows within the app to reduce clicks and make canvassing a more intuitive experience for first-time canvassers, including:
* Combined map and household view
* Updated onboarding including a new training video
* Additional contextual training, such as prompting folks to mark a canvass result for everyone in a household
* Better inter-household navigation
* Updated iconography
* Tabbed navigation to better surface features
If it's been a while since you've canvassed, here are some other things that have changed since the last time you knocked doors
* Spanish language support
* Search the Voter File for people not on your list
* Updated helper text for certain canvass responses such as "Refused"
* Fixes an issue with apartments being sorted incorrectly
* Fixes an issue with member households being inaccessible
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Bug fixes and performance improvements
New minimum operations system: iOS 12
User Experience Updates:
Based on feedback an extensive user research study we are making some initial workflow changes including:
* Show map first when downloading a canvass packet - our research shows that most users switch directly to the map view to orient themselves on turf. We are now showing the map view first.
* Helper text and confirmation dialogs on some canvass responses - such as “Refused” and “Inaccessible” to make sure canvassers are using the correct response.
* Changed the circle icons that represent the people in a household to people icons
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Includes fixes for:
* Authentication issues
* UK address sorting
* Blank menu
* Support for PR phone numbers
* Bug fixes
This will be the last release supporting iOS 9, iOS10, iOS 11
What's New:
* New Log In page for ActionID
Bug Fixes Including:
* Performance improvements for large lists
* Performance improvements for lists with large numbers of employers
* Fixes for app crashes
* Updates for iOS 14 location services
* Swipe to mark people and households as "Lit Drop"
- Fix for searching for voters in Street Team
- Fix for voted badge in MyCampaign
- Fix for Employer, Worksite, and Department views
* General Bug Fixes
* Updates to map view so that the map will no longer reset while you are out canvassing
* Support For Applicant Address
* Last release supporting iOS 9
Spanish Support:
MiniVAN is now translated to Spanish for canvassers who have set their device language to Spanish. Keep in mind that while we provide translation for hard-coded text in MiniVAN, you will need to provide translations for Scripts, Activist Codes, and Survey Questions when you create or edit them in the CRM.
Quick Lookup On MiniVAN:
Now you can search for and add voters to your list while knocking doors. When you encounter a voter not on your list you’ll be able to search the voter file for the person you are talking to, add them to your list, and record you interactions. This is only available for Voter File lists.
Street Team in the Voter File
You can now generate Street Team lists in the Voter File. This will allow you to do voter contact - without starting from a targeted list.
* Fix for an issue for users on iOS 13 where MiniVAN was not remembering your place on the list when the app was put in to the background.
* Fix for adding UK phone numbers
- Streamlined Street Team workflow to one step for adding a person to your list
- Support for Dark Mode on iOS 13
- Updates to add / edit person workflow - Mark person as canvassed when a phone or email address is added.
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Bug fixes including:
* Fix for adding a new person
* Fix for InvalidUserID error
* Fix for download list button not showing when users' font size is increase
We have optimized people search in this update.
Say hello to mobile canvassing’s new look - miniVAN 8! We are excited to introduce an update to miniVAN that will make knocking doors easier, faster, and more intuitive for you canvassers.
After a record-breaking GOTV this fall we’ve taken some time to make changes to the app based on feedback from the thousands and thousands of canvassers who knocked doors with miniVAN. We've updated all of the feature sets within miniVAN including Street Team, Distributed Canvassing, Find My Next Door, and Optimized Routing. We’ve also included some smaller changes, such as allowing your users to adjust the text size within miniVAN and notifications on how far you’ve progressed through your turf.
Also - because we know that reliability is always top of mind - this release includes some under-the-hood improvements bringing you a more stable canvassing experience.
- Fix for Add New Person
- Fix for displaying UK addresses
Helpful messaging as you canvass with the app
- Fix for "Voted" sticker not showing when list is first downloaded
- Fixes for optimized routes in MiniVAN
- Updated link to Privacy Policy
- Fix for "Voted" sticker not showing when list is first downloaded
Support for walk routes on MiniVAN
MiniVAN can now generate order walk routes for your canvass. MiniVAN will route you to your first house, guide you through your turf in the most efficient route, and bring you back to your staging location after you are done canvassing.
- Fix for users logging in without ActionID on iOS 9 or iOS 8
Find My Next Door 2.0
The updated version of Find My Next Door will display all of the houses on your walk list in an ordered list - instead of just the closest three.
- Bug fixes
- Support for playing videos
- Support for Working America workflows
Support for Editable Jobs
Finally - job information is editable on MiniVAN. Users can edit a subset of job information for an existing job or add a new job to a contact. We took a look at the top six edited jobs fields and made those available in this release:
Employer
Worksite
Work Area
Department
Job Class
Shift
This release also includes support for adding notes with a contact status of ‘Not Home”.
Support for Team Canvassing:
Team Canvassing makes sharing turf packets on MiniVAN easier and more efficient. Now canvassers using the same list can see the canvass results of their canvass partner on their device - so you can know if the next house on the street has been knocked or not — without having to text or shout down the block at your canvass partner. MiniVAN will also now show multiple passes on a turf packet - making MiniVAN a more powerful GOTV tool.
- Filter on "not-contacted"
- Fix for addresses with apartment numbers
Support for French Translations
Bug fixes including:
- Click to call when there are multiple phone numbers on a record
- Cell phone not populating on online actions forms
- Branched script formatting issues
- Map pin display issue
- Fixes bug where "Party" did not display on person summary
- Additional iOS 11 bug fixes
- iphone x support
- Support for all Online Action form types
- Support for Distributed Canvassing: No more cutting turf! Use distributed canvassing to create walk lists based on your canvassers’ current location and your targeted universe.
- Updates to the address search functionality when adding a new person to MiniVAN Street Team
Introducing MiniVAN Street Team
MiniVAN now supports list-less canvassing, so that you can build your list of supporters from scratch.
- New interface just for street team canvassers that guides them through the add person workflow
- The home page will include statistics on new people added and payments collected, to make tracking progress easier
- We’ve updated the add new person interface to make adding supporters faster
- Integrates with MiniVAN Manager, so that you can see progress in real time
- Bug Fixes and Performance Enhancements
Find My Next Door:
We are excited to release our latest feature, Find My Next Door, to help guide you through your turf! MiniVAN will now calculate the next three closest uncanvassed houses to your current location – to help you plan your route through your turf packet more efficiently. The list of closest doors will update as you canvass and move through a neighborhood.
Progress Through Turf:
We’ve also added a progress bar to the List Details page and a percentage of doors knocked to the Sidebar Menu to let you know how much progress you’ve made through your packet. We know you can get to 100%!
Additional Messaging:
We’ve added some additional messaging around battery life to let you know that you may want to charge your device and and around data connectivity so that you know your data is queued and waiting to sync.
Satellite View:
Canvassers can now toggle between map and satellite view on the map. This can be particularly helpful for rural turf.
Fixes:
- Performance fixes for users on iOS 7
- Fixes for crashes in the map and script view
- Fixes to map zoom
- Fix for jobs tab on script view
- Auto Sync: You can now enable auto-sync on MiniVAN Campaigns.
- Fixes for users on iOS 6 and iOS 7
Support for Script Branching - Get excited: MiniVAN now supports script branching! You can now create a script that will allow you to conditionally show the next question based on the response to the first one on MiniVAN. Make sure your 1s get a follow-up volunteer ask or your 3s get a persuasion script by setting up a branched script in VAN.
Removed “Clear All Responses” Option (Finally!) - Yes, we heard you: your canvassers will no longer be able to clear their canvassing data. Want the option back? Let us know.
Fixes:
- Remember place in large apartment buildings
- Remember Hide/Show Script Options
- Better Householding for New Records
- UK Date Format for Contact History
- Crashes in Script View and Household View
- Support for Hyphenated Addresses
- Bug fixes
- Support for Online Actions Integration
- Google Tag Manager Updates
- UK Addresses Fix
- Fix for Polling Location Address
- Improvements to Geocode Accuracy and Canvasser Location
- Improvements for UK Addresses
- Improvements to location services
Release notes:
- Fix for issue with reauthentication modal
- Fix for Voted Sticker feature
- Fix for the polling address and voting address
- Fix for Canadian addresses with special characters
- Fix for display field crash on jobs module
- Fix events on jobs module lists
- Fix for Canadian apartment buildings with two postal codes
- Fix for scrolling through list of households on a jobs module list
- Fix for crash when re-opening the app on a jobs module list
- Fix for the Save button on the add new person modal
- Fix for downloading lists for international clients
- Fixes 24 hour authentication issue
- Fixes error messaging
- Fixes Two Factor Authentication remember device issue
- Fixes map cluster issue for iOS 8.2
- Bug fixes
Introducing MiniVAN 7.2, which includes the following:
ActionID on MiniVAN
- Log in with ActionID: Log into MiniVAN with your ActionID. Don't forget to link your user account to your ActionID following the one-time link workflow from the user menu in VAN.
- Create an ActionID: For canvassers who don't yet have a user account but have a list number for canvassing, they can create an ActionID with their email address and enter in that list number for download.
- Log in without an ActionID: Users will still be able to log into MiniVAN in the standard method, with their URL, username and password.
- Choose Database: For users who have access to multiple databases, they will no longer be prompted to select a database when logging in to MiniVAN. Instead, users can select a database or enter in a list number. Users can also switch databases while remaining logged in, instead of having to log out of the app.
Other features:
- iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus support
Bug fixes, including:
- Marking Household Not Home and script responses
- Stability and performance issues, particularly for iPhone 4, iPhone 4s and iPad 2
- Searching crashes
- Issue with switching to People View
- Voted sticker displaying incorrectly after syncing
- Issues with accessing script with a jobs list
- Address formatting for long UK addresses
- Sync screen freezes
Bug fixes and improvements
- Fix for a map issue for wifi only devices
Introducing MiniVAN 7.1, with new functionality for clients using NGP VAN's Union Jobs module:
- View your MiniVAN list by Employer, Worksite or Department
- Filter your list using specific jobs fields
- View a person's job information in a new tab
- View multiple jobs for a person, if applicable
- View a person's job information in List View
Also included:
- Fix for map issues
- Fix for Mark Not Home issue
- Fix for Script View issue
- Fix for issue with editing a note
- Fix for issue with not displaying Age on the list of people
- Fix for UK address issue in MIniVAN Formats
- Ability to edit and delete notes
- Fixes for stability issues
- Fix for UK addresses
- Fix for dialing phone numbers on iPhones
- Fix for minor map issues
- Fix for minor issue with adding an email and a phone number
- Support for 64-bit devices
- For lists with multiple scripts, the name and the switch script option will now appear at the top of the Script View
- Bug fixes for iOS 5.1.1 Support
- Bug fix for saving phone numbers in certain workflows
- Bug fix for adding or editing a person on a list with stars
- Other small bug fixes
Introducing MiniVAN 7.0
- Complete rewrite of the app to use more modern memory management systems
- Updated look and feel of the app with a focus on more efficient and easy workflow
- Events are now available on scripts
- Sync your list from any screen in the app
- Refresh your lists to see who has voted early or on Election Day
- New sidebar menu to navigate easily through the app
- Filter your list to view people with certain canvass statuses
- Updated map functionality, which clusters nearby addresses together
- New apartment building display
Introducing MiniVAN 6.4:
- Requires a device running at least iOS 4.3
- Please remove the current canvass list from your device before updating to the new version of the MiniVAN Touch app. Failure to do so will result in the loss of all canvassing data entered on the current canvass list.
New features include:
- iOS 6 optimizations
- iPhone 5 optimizations
- Support for Retina Displays
- Enter List Number available for all users including when no lists have been exported.
- Total Doors Knocked statistic available on the Summary Page
- Bug Fixes
** Remove the current canvass list from your device before updating to the new version of the MiniVAN Touch app. Failure to do so will result in the loss of all canvassing data entered on the current canvass list. **
New features include:
* Compatibility for older devices
* Enter List Number fixes for input fields
* Updates to the information text
* Bug fixes
** Remove the current canvass list from your device before updating to the new version of the MiniVAN Touch app. Failure to do so will result in the loss of all canvassing data entered on the current canvass list. **
New features include:
* Bug fixes
* Updates to the map feature on iPad