March 19, 2008
Latest New Volunteer Scheduling Features
We’ve been hard at work making some behind-the-scenes changes to help get these new features rolled out, and it was worth it! Here is a short list of what is new:
Support for recurring schedules on the 1st-5th week of the month
This has been the most requested feature, by far and now we have it! When you activate Rapid Scheduling, we will now create 8 teams that you can use as needed:
- Assigned Every Week
- Assigned Every Odd Week
- Assigned Every Even Week
- Assigned Every 1st Week of the Month
- Assigned Every 2nd Week of the Month
- Assigned Every 3rd Week of the Month
- Assigned Every 4th Week of the Month
- Assigned Every 5th Week of the Month
So, if your team rotates every other week, use the first three groups. If your team rotates on a monthly basis, you one or more of the last five groups. Here is a screenshot of what the new groups listing looks like within Rapid Scheduling (click to view the full size image):
Also note that the preview calendar button has been moved to each group in the list, so that it is easier to view the occurrences of a specific group for the next three months.
New Group Membership Report
A new report is now available from within the Team Reports and Church Reports that display each member of your church, along with their contact details and their team memberships. Print a report just for your team as a contact sheet, or print a church-wide report of everyone within Church Director!
Improved Request Emails
Request emails now have new subject lines and use better terminology. This has been another request recently, as the term ‘assignment’ has been deemed “not PC”. We now prevent reminder emails from being sent if the user has declined the assignment - something we should have done some time ago.
Enjoy!