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
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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 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 August 25, 2014
Use 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 for that date and then place a substitute volunteer on the schedule. However, an easier way to do this is to use Volgistics’ Substitute Tracking feature to handle
Tip of the Week July 14, 2014
Schedule volunteers from the Schedule tab of their records to have opening settings enforced. When scheduling volunteers to fill an opening from the Schedule tab of an Assignment, or by selecting Schedule from the menu, you must be careful to click the Fill link beside the unfilled opening instead of scheduling with the Schedule a
Tip of the Week June 16, 2014
Use Flags to create levels of volunteer training for self-scheduling Some organizations have training programs that require volunteers to complete trainings in order to be able to sign-up for certain assignments using Vic Self-Scheduling. If your organization is one of these, you can use Flags to control which volunteers can use self-scheduling to sign-up for
Tip of the Week April 7, 2014
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 February 3, 2014
Allow volunteers to remove themselves from schedule If you use the self-scheduling feature in VicNet or VicTouch, you can allow volunteers to remove themselves from the schedule. To alert a System Operator, and/or the Coordinators for the assignment, about the change, you can setup to have an alert sent automatically when this occurs. The setting
Tip of the Week December 23, 2013
Track Assignments Automatically In Volgistics, a volunteer’s Role in an assignment shows his or her relationship to the assignment. For example, a Role of Assigned likely means that the volunteer is actively serving in the assignment, while a Role of Substitute might mean the volunteer is available to fill in for other volunteers in the