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’
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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
Tip of the Week November 3, 2014
How to schedule substitutes for regularly scheduled volunteers who are on vacation or have a prolonged absence. Volgistics comes with a built-in feature to make scheduling substitute volunteers for short term absences easier. If your volunteer will only be gone a couple of days, this way works great because it is easier and your schedule
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