{"id":17175,"date":"2015-08-31T14:41:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/?p=17175"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:44:18","slug":"august-bits-bytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/ja\/august-bits-bytes\/","title":{"rendered":"August Bits and Bytes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17193\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mms-blog-august-31.png\" alt=\"My Music Staff Update, August 31, 2015 - My Music Staff\" width=\"484\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mms-blog-august-31.png 484w, https:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mms-blog-august-31-300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><br \/>\nHi Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s update consists of a number of smaller changes and improvements to the site.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s new and improved this week:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;ve added an option to &#8220;<strong>My Preferences<\/strong>&#8221; that allows you to copy last week&#8217;s attendance notes to the current lesson automatically. (A &#8220;*&#8221; is automatically added to the note tabs when this happens, so you can tell where this note came from.)<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve added &#8220;<strong>Student Names<\/strong>&#8221; as an optional column on the Invoices tab of the &#8220;<strong>Families &amp; Invoices<\/strong>&#8221; page.<\/li>\n<li>If students (or parents) reply &#8220;<strong>STOP<\/strong>&#8221; to an SMS\/Text lesson reminder, we&#8217;ll automatically disable SMS reminders in their profile. (To resume SMS reminders, your students must reply &#8220;<strong>UNSTOP<\/strong>&#8221; and turn SMS reminders back on in their profile.)<\/li>\n<li>We updated the SMS template editor so that if you insert a placeholder (e.g. %StudentFirstName%) from the placeholder drop down, it gets inserted at your cursor (instead of at the end of the message).<\/li>\n<li>We tweaked the invoice layouts slightly to eliminate a blank last page that would sometimes happen.<\/li>\n<li>We updated the sign-up widget so that if you had a multi-teacher student, but switched back to a single teacher, you are automatically assigned as the teacher to that new student.<\/li>\n<li>SMS Reminders are now sent using Unicode, so they should display correctly no matter what language you use.<\/li>\n<li>If you move a lesson or event on the calendar, the SMS reminder will be resent with the new lesson time.<\/li>\n<li>For multi-teacher studios, we&#8217;ve added &#8220;<strong>Phone Number<\/strong>&#8221; to the list of optional columns on the Teachers &amp; Administrators page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Note: Our office will be closed next Monday for Labour Day, so there will be no regularly scheduled update next Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have a great week!<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The My Music Staff Team<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Did you know? <\/strong>You can take attendance for a\u00a0whole day without having to select each individual lesson\/event. Read the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/knowledgebase\/can-take-attendance-whole-day\/\">Faq here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone, This week&#038;#8 &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"August Bits and Bytes\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/ja\/august-bits-bytes\/#more-17175\" aria-label=\"August Bits and Bytes \u306b\u3064\u3044\u3066\u3055\u3089\u306b\u8aad\u3080\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78467,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17175\/revisions\/78467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymusicstaff.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}