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Reports, Routines, & Notifications - May 2021

 

 

We've completely overhauled the Group Attendance Notification, enhanced reports with standardized formatting to make them matchy-matchy, added new views, and so much more!
Data Quality
  • *New* Fix View on Donor's page 'Stmt: Fix Type' shows Head of Household Donors whose Online Statement Type differs from the other Head of Household.
Reports
  • Enhanced the Standard Statement and Selected Standard Statement reports to remove the Statement ID from the Donations header.
  • Enhanced the 'Selected Group Weekly Attendance by Group' report with new Parameter 'Show Groups with No Attendance.'
  • Enhanced the Selected Form Response Report to include Parameters for "Is Hidden" and "Depends On" form fields.
  • Enhanced the Selected Form Response report to remove superfluous Company parameters.
  • Enhanced Report appearance to standardize across all reports.
  • Enhanced Selected Feedback Digest report with Standard Formatting.
  • Enhanced the Adjust Selected Distributions Result report with standard formatting.
  • Enhanced the Audit Log Search Selected report with standard formatting.
  • Enhanced the Compare Related Contacts Change Relationship report with standard formatting.
  • Enhanced the Congregation Summary report with standard formatting.
  • Enhanced the Copy Selected Donations Report with standard formatting.
  • Enhanced the Create Deposit from Selected Batches report with standard formatting.
  • Enhanced the Feedback Printout report to be consistent with standard formatting.
  • Enhanced the Find Contacts by Attribute report with standard formatting.
  • Enhanced the People Totals by Congregation report to be consistent with standard formatting.
  • Fixed an issue where a blank column appeared in the Donation Listing - Simple report.
  • Fixed an issue where the Envelope File report did not display the Alternate Address when Season End Date was Null.
  • Fixed the "Find Donor Household - Selected" Report to include all Donations for the Households represented in the selection instead of only Donations for the Donors in the selection.
  • Fixed an issue where the Alternate Pledge Campaign Nickname did not display on Standard Statements
Routines
  • *New* Added a Service Group Meetings Routine that: 1) updates the Next Scheduled Meeting Date on the Group record; and 2) creates Event and Event Room records for the next meeting. This new routine is used in conjunction with the Send Group Attendance Notification.

Hey SPoCs! When the Reports, Routines, and Notifications - May 2021 Release is deployed to your system, three new fields will be added and auto populated. Please review these values after you receive this update.

  • Create New Meeting will be set to True.
  • Next Scheduled Meeting will be set to the FURTHEST out event, past or future.
  • Default Meeting Room will either: 1) be populated with the Room associated with the Group's most recent event; OR 2) left NULL and the CLOUDAPPS, GroupMeetingRoomID will be used when the next event is created.
Notifications
  • Enhanced the Group Attendance Notification to leverage the new Service Group Meetings Routine to make using the notification simpler and more transparent.
  • Fixed an issue where the Group Attendance Notification directed users to the GroupLife Home Page instead of specific Group Meetings.
Schema & Metadata
  • *New* View 'Fix: Next Meeting and Meeting Day Mismatch' added to the Groups page to aid in the Group Attendance Notification create Events option.
  • *New* Data Quality View 'Fix: Mismatch Users' on the Users page displays User records that have been linked to more than one Contact record.
  • *New* View on Groups page 'Review: Groups to Reopen' shows groups that are marked as Full but have a combined total of Group Participants + Group Inquires that are less than the Target Size value.
  • Updated Several Field Helps on various Group Fields in light of the newly updated Group Attendance Notification.
  • Updated the Default Field List on the Household Care Log Page to remove a previous workaround to a since resolved bug.
Important! Event Group sub-pages have been removed from all Security Roles and eventually, Event Groups will be removed. Note: These sub-pages will not yet be removed for Pocket Platform Users utilizing the Curriculum field.

 

  • Enhanced various System Lookup Pages to Suppress the New Button.
  • Enhanced certain System Lookup Page's descriptions to include a warning to User's about making changes.
  • Enhanced Household Field Helps for Season Start and Season End date fields.
  • Enhanced previously named "Feedback" Sub-Pages to now reflect "Prayer & Feedback" like its Parent Page.
  • Enhanced the Group Types Default Field List to include: Activity Log Start Date, Show on Group Finder, and Omit from Engagement Group Life, respectfully.
  • Fixed an issue where 'Read Only' access appeared on the User Rights & Restrictions page when no access was granted.
  • Fixed an issue where Age within a view was calculated incorrectly for Birthdays Today that landed on a leap year.
Triggers
  • Fixed an issue where cancelling an Event did not Audit Log the cancellation of the Room Reservation properly.