Tip of the Week August 22, 2016

Use the Volgistics Substitute Tracking feature when volunteers are not able to serve. When volunteers are sick or unable to serve, you can remove them from the schedule and place a substitute volunteer on the schedule in their place. However, the Substitute Tracking feature provides an easier way to handle short term absences. To use

Tip of the Week April 11, 2016

Volunteer & Assignment Matching Volgistics’ matching features for volunteers and assignments were recently revamped to make them more user-friendly and practical for regular use. Now, in lieu of categories or ‘levels’ of matching, volunteers are now considered as matching-or not matching-an assignment based on the criteria selected for that assignment record. The revised matching features

Tip of the Week March 28, 2016

See New Message notifications on the Welcome Page Volgistics’ “Welcome Page” is the landing page—the first page system operators will see when they log in. In addition to providing new feature messages, account statistics, birthday lists, and tips of the week (like this one) the Welcome Page will also include a ‘Mail’ section directing operators’

Tip of the Week February 8, 2016

Post service hours directly from the schedule In Volgistics, volunteers’ Schedule and Service are tracked separately. The Schedule is an estimation of when volunteers are expected to serve in the future, while Service is a record of when they actually served in the past. The Schedule does not become Service automatically, but Volgistics’ Post page

Tip of the Week November 16, 2015

Allow volunteers to see who else is scheduled in VicNet If your organization uses the VicNet or VicTouch modules, you can allow volunteers to see other volunteers who are scheduled by: Select Setup from the menu. Expand the VicNet link. Select Schedule tab Under Volunteers can…, select one of the options for showing who else

Tip of the Week August 24, 2015

Go to the Schedule tab of an Assignment from the Schedule page There are different ways to view the schedule in Volgistics to match the rendering that fits your needs the best. For example, if you want to view the schedule for your entire organization, you can select Schedule from the menu. Or, if you

Tip of the Week August 3, 2015

Set schedule calendar to default to a specific date or month. If you’re using Volgistics to prepare for an event that will take place in the future, you may want to setup the schedule calendar to default to a date or month other than the current one. This makes it easier to use because you

Tip of the Week July 6, 2015

Use Schedule Icons to determine how a volunteer is scheduled In Volgistics, volunteers can be scheduled in two different ways. In some assignments, the task does not need to be performed at a specific time of day. Volgistics refers to these assignments as “any time” assignments. There are also assignments where coverage is needed during

Tip of the Week June 8, 2015

Import and print schedule in Excel. Volgistics includes a Schedule Report feature that allows you to print customized schedules in PDF format. Help topic 8255 has information on these reports. However, there may be times you want to have the schedule in Excel format. There is not a report that is able to do this,

Tip of the Week February 16, 2015

Modify Schedule Statistics reports to cover different time periods. One of the stock Schedule Reports available in Volgistics is the Schedule Statistics (Stock) report. This report is useful because it allows you to quickly see how many openings are filled and un-filled for each assignment. Plus you can get an unduplicated volunteer count for how