So we learned a few weeks ago that ActiveAdmissions is moving to a new platform called Recruiter. Additionally, there is no roadmap for improving ActiveCampus. Their developers and executives also admitted that the software is crap... and they blew it by pushing out the software so hard.
So it's great that their is a plan to rework the application and recruiting side... however, it leaves us in no man's land with regard to our current CMS. Should we continue to actively work on a platform that is basically unsupported, with no implementation roadmap down the future? The product is lucky to see 2 updates a year. In the world of the web, that is simply excusable. Additionally, I've learned that in the world of the Web CMS, a closed box solution is simply much to difficult to work with. I'm hoping to gain some knowledge and hopefully push for us to move to an OpenSource CMS in the future. At this point, I don't care about technology, but I'd prefer to stick with .NET for the sake that we're primarily a M$ shop.
Outside of that, I did manage to fix a bug in their Lightbox code. So woohoo there! :) I was a good denizen and passed my fix on up to Datatel so that they could fix it if they ever release another patch. (We're not going on 5 months since the last patch...)
In the past few months, I've been receiving quite a few phone calls and emails asking about the ActiveAdmissions/Campus and whether or not it is worth it to move over. While I won't tell you whether or not you should move to it, I will be very honest with our dealings, explaining the positives (there are a couple) and the negatives... I'm also happy to demonstrate via a PC sharing session as well so that you can see a real world user experience...
Until next time, glad some of you still visit the site.
Paul
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*sigh*.
we are 1 month away from launching our Active Admissions install...
Datatel has said NOTHING about this to us in the last 5 months of development and work.
Paul, I'd appreciate a chance to have a phone call or email with you, please shoot me back an email if you can see it from my comment.
Thanks.
Duran and Paul,
We too just recently launched our new site in September. They made no mention to us either. I am not sure where this leaves everyone.
Anna McClure
Western Wyoming Community College
Webmaster
Hi Paul, we're considering ActiveAdmissions and ActiveCampus for our Admissions section of our website, and very possibly for the entire website.
So I understand your post correctly, Datatel is moving to a platform called Recruiter and there is no development path for the ActiveCampus CMS?
Right now we use the Joomla CMS for our public website. We are looking to move from Joomla. The two options are Drupal and possibily ActiveCampus CMS if we leverage ActiveAdmissions. I would be interested more in your experiences thus far. You can contact me at pixelpres at gmail.com or on Twitter - @MikeMcCready.
Thanks.
We recently launched ActiveAdmissions/ActiveCampus. Would be willing to share and compare with anyone who is interested.
Paul, I would appreciate talking to you about some of the programming aspects, especially on creating new content types.
George, Sure.
For the most part, our content types are fairly straight forward. However, we have a few that are a bit more complex that I'll discuss in the next little bit.
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