Tip of the Week August 11, 2025 If you’ve created a custom report in PDF format, you may find instances where some columns of information extend beyond the width of the page causing them to appear on subsequent pages. If this is the case, you can sometimes make all the columns appear on one page
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This is part of our Tip of the Week series. These weekly quick tips will help you utilize features in Volgistics you may not have known about. Check back often for new tips!
Run Service Report for a Single Archived Volunteer Record
Tip of the Week August 4, 2025 There may be times you want to generate service reports for archived volunteer records. One way to do this is to create a custom Excel report that contains service information for all archived volunteers. Include Archived Records shows how to do this. Archived records also show automatically on
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Set Schedule to Default to a Specific Date or Month
Tip of the Week July 28, 2025 If you’re using Volgistics for an event that will take place in the future, you may want to setup the schedule calendar to default to a specific date or month. This makes it easier to use because you will not need to change the view each time you
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Add States (Or Provinces) to Dropdown
TTip of the Week July 14, 2025 When Volgistics accounts are created, the State/Province dropdown list is only populated with the organization’s home state or province. However, you can add other states or provinces to this list at any time via account setup. To do this, There are also buttons to add all states or
Send Email to Listed Volunteers from the Volunteers Page
Tip of the Week July 7, 2025 When you’re sending an email message from the Out Box tab of the Volgistics Mailbox, you can choose to send it to a single volunteer, tagged volunteers, all the volunteers in your database, or just the volunteers who have a certain Status or who are in a certain
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Use Schedule Icons to Determine How a Volunteer Is Scheduled
Tip of the Week June 30, 2025 In Volgistics, volunteers can be scheduled in two different ways: without openings and within openings. Some volunteers may be added directly to the schedule, while others may be assigned to fill specific openings that have been setup within Assignments. The Two Ways to Schedule section of Scheduling Overview
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Creating and Maintaining System Operator Records
Tip of the Week June 24, 2025 The credentials for the first Administrator in an account are created from the trial account information used when the account is started. Thereafter, the Administrator creates and maintains all System Operator records for the account. The Volgistics Team does not assign, or update, login credentials for operators. Your
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Use VicTouch Greeting Cards as Event Reminders
Tip of the Week June 9, 2025 If your organization uses the VicTouch module and you have an event coming up that you want volunteers to remember, consider using a VicTouch Greeting Card. Volunteers will see the reminder each time they login during the time period you select. Sending a reminder message through Vic Mail
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Use a Set to Find Records That Have Information in a Spare Field
Tip of the Week June 2, 2025 There may be times when you need to find all the volunteers in your account that have information in a specific text field. For example, to verify the information in a field called School where you record the educational institution a volunteer attends, or attended last, it may
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Archive Inactive Records to Keep Service Information and Save Money
Tip of the Week May 19, 2025 Your Volgistics database is divided into archived and non-archived sections. The Archive is designed for long term storage of inactive volunteers. In your account’s service level, archived records cost significantly less because they have more limited functionality than non-archived records. For example, archived volunteers cannot be tagged or
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