Use VicTouch Greeting Cards as Event Reminders 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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Tip of the Week July 3, 2017
Send email to listed volunteers from the Volunteers page 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
Tip of the Week June 26, 2017
Use Schedule Icons to determine how a volunteer is scheduled 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
Tip of the Week June 19, 2017
You can copy one volunteer’s information with the Clipboard Copy feature There may be times when you need to enter a volunteer’s basic information (such as name, address, phone number, etc.) into an outside word processing document. For example, some organizations may send letters to volunteers, or create award certificates. If you are doing this
Tip of the Week June 12, 2017
Protect your account with strong passwords Data security is often at the forefront of the news today. We strive to make your Volgistics account secure behind the scenes, and prevent unauthorized users from gaining access by using three-factor authentication for loginlogin, and security blocks to prevent repeated login attempts. However, security experts feel that the
Tip of the Week June 5, 2017
Creating and maintaining System Operator records 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 account’s
Tip of the Week May 29, 2017
Import and print schedule in Excel Volgistics’ Schedule Reports are available in PDF format. However, there may be times you want to have the schedule in Excel format. There is not a report within Volgistics that is able to do this, but you can use the features in Excel to get the schedule information for
Tip of the Week May 22, 2017
Schedule volunteers with Assignment Opening Rules enforced Via the Schedule tab of an Assignment record or the Schedule page from the menu, System Operators are always able to schedule volunteers for any time even if the Rules tab of the corresponding Assignment is setup to allow scheduling for “Openings only”. However, operators may wish to
Tip of the Week May 15, 2017
Use a Set to find records that have information in a spare field 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
Tip of the Week May 8, 2017
Customize VicTouch access and exit codes If your organization uses the VicTouch module, please note we recommend using it in kiosk mode whenever possible. The kiosk mode causes the display to fill the entire screen. This hides the URL address and web browser controls to make access more secure. You can find information on starting