Track the total number of shifts or visits volunteers serve Organizations may want to track how many times their volunteers have served, rather than just how many hours they’ve served. Volgistics makes this possible with Service Measures. These are an ideal feature for recording special types of service performed, and can be easily configured to
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Tip of the Week August 1, 2016
Find out how a service entry was created, or if the entry was edited. Service records in Volgistics can be created in a variety of different ways. Sometimes it is useful to be able to tell which method was used to create the record, or if the entry has been edited. To find this out
Tip of the Week June 06, 2016
Clean up your report list by deleting multiple reports at a time As you or other system operators use Volgistics’ reporting features, your ‘Print’ page may accumulate a large number of custom reports. Some of these may be automatic reports or other useful reports that will be used again in the future, while others may
Tip of the Week February 22, 2016
Include the Source, Batch, or Directive fields for service entries on Service Details Reports Service Detail reports are designed to provide specific information about service entries that appear on the volunteer’s Service tab. When you create a custom Service Detail report and select to list volunteers on the Options tab, you can include volunteer fields
Tip of the Week December 7, 2015
Archive old help inquires to “clean-up” your mailbox The “Help E-mail” tab of the Volgistics Mailbox is designed to provide an additional reference for System Operators. All System Operators in the account can review past questions and responses in case they may find the information helpful. However, there may be past help inquiries that are
Tip of the Week November 30, 2015
Hide a field to omit it from Address Label Reports The Address Label Reports are designed to take the normal address fields in use and format them as a mailing label. There may be times when you do not wish to have a field appear on your labels. For example, if you are using the
Tip of the Week November 23, 2015
Keep a local back-up of your volunteer data. Volgistics includes the ability to create a local back-up of your volunteer information by using Excel spreadsheet reports. One reason for making the report is that when these are saved to your local system, you can use them to access to your volunteer data in a situation
Tip of the Week October 19, 2015
How to Stop Automatic Reports from Printing Volgistics has a feature that can be setup so that reports will automatically be run during the overnight maintenance cycle. These reports can be delivered to your account’s In Box tab on a certain day each week, or on a certain date each month. There may be times
Tip of the Week August 17, 2015
Print service report for a single archived volunteer record. There may be times you want to print 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. Help topic 1997 shows how to do this. Archived records also show
Tip of the Week August 10, 2015
Use floating subtotals for information on service in a specific period of time. In addition to regular service hour entries, Volgistics automatically keeps a total for month-to-date (MTD), year-to-date (YTD), and life hours for volunteers. There are also two floating subtotal fields that you can use to keep track of service performed during monthly time