The VicNet Time Sheet tab can now be enabled for just selected volunteers Depending on your organization’s needs, you may want to give all volunteers access to VicNet but only allow a selected group to use the Time Sheet tab to enter service information. We recently updated Volgistics to allow you to do this. Please
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Restrict VicNet Time Sheet Tab Access
The VicNet Time Sheet tab can now be enabled for just selected volunteers The VicNet module has a Time Sheet tab feature that allows your volunteers to input their service information from any computer or device connected to the Internet. Depending on your organization, you may want all volunteers to have access to VicNet, but
Tip of the Week October 20, 2014
Use Volgistics’ Holidays feature to schedule remove volunteers from the schedule on days your organization will be closed. If your organization closes, or just keeps a skeleton staff of volunteers, on certain dates, you can add the date as a holiday in your account. This will automatically remove all regularly scheduled volunteers from the schedule
Tip of the Week October 13, 2014
System Operators can access the Volgistics Store from inside account. The Volgistics Store is where accounts can create invoices, pay for service, change service levels and other administrative type tasks. Volgistics Administrators can access the Store by clicking the Store tab at www.volgistics.com and then entering their credentials. But there is also an alternative way
Tip of the Week October 6, 2014
Preview what volunteers see when they login to VicNet. If your organization uses the VicNet module, you may want to preview what a volunteer sees when he or she logs-in. This can be useful when you’re doing things such as setting up Vic self-scheduling to see if you’ve set it up correctly. One way to
Tip of the Week September 29, 2014
Recent additions to Set rules add more search options. Your satisfaction with Volgistics is important to us and we are continually working to improve your experience with the software. As part of the improvement process, we have made three changes to the Set rules available to query, or filter, the database. In May, we added
Tip of the Week September 22, 2014
Use email codes to personalize email messages. Volgistics has email codes available that allow you to personalize email messages that are sent to volunteers. These allow you to insert specific volunteer information into an email message similar to how the mail merge function works in a word processing program. The codes available allow you to
Tip of the Week September 15, 2014
Include volunteer names on ‘child’ records in Excel reports. In databases, a ‘child’ record is a piece of information that relates back to one particular record. One volunteer record can have multiple service records, just like one parent can have multiple children. Because Excel Spread Sheet reports are designed to be able to contain detailed
Tip of the Week September 8, 2014
Clear your own security blocks for your account. To protect customer accounts from hackers who might try to guess the password or other information to access an account, Volgistics automatically places a security block on accounts where too many invalid login attempts have been made from the same IP address. This sometimes inadvertently is put
Tip of the Week September 1, 2014
Use the Advanced options on the Volunteer’s page to fine tune searches. When you’re locating specific groups of volunteer records, the Basic options on the Volunteers page provide a powerful search tool. For example, to locate just Active Adult volunteers, you select “Active” from the Status dropdown and “Adult” from the Type dropdown, and then