Here's a demo of a tool I'm mentioned before on this list:
http://www.returnandreport.net/demo/ward/eq/?mn=200706
The highlights, in my opinion, are the simplicity that other similar
efforts have not been able to produce and the monthly summary report
accessible by Admins. Generate your own report
Great ideas Bill. Here's a demo of the homegrown solution that our stake
uses:
http://www.returnandreport.net/demo/ward/eq/
It might not be complete, but I think it does many things you suggest
except allow editing companionships and assignments online (it's driven by
MLS exports where editing is
http://hcgl.eng.ohio-state.edu/~mills/WardInfo/WardInfo.html
Nice. Looks like another clear vote for making the Unit Websites and
MLS one and the same (minus maybe the finances). That would help
ward clerks and leaders to be able to spend more time at home with
their families.
-Greg
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> Crowne Burger.
Makes me chuckle. My pops was a COB employee for 30+ years and struggled
to stay away from that place. His kids predicted it would shorten his
lifespan by the same number of years, but gladly he's still ticking
strong.
Sorry, I'm out of state and won't be able to join.
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> I'm curious how involved your Ward leadership is in promoting the Ward
> Website? I had one Ward that seemed to grasp it better than others,
> and it happened when all the Leaders started using it and making it as
> one of the primary means for members to get information.
I would agree. Suppor
As previously mentioned, the two biggest factors in my ward that cause
ward leaders to dismiss the usefulness of the ward website are 1) Lack of
support in MLS and the Ward Websites for *personal* phone numbers (cell,
work, etc..) and 2) Lack of user-friendly email lists.
Regarding Email Broadcast
oming and I'll keep forwarding.
Tom
Greg Hart wrote:
Hi All-
I apologize in advance if this is beating a dead horse for some of
you. This list is just one avenue I'm hoping the message can reach
someone of
influence at HQ. Thanks for any fixes/enhancements you can make.
Bel
Hi All-
I apologize in advance if this is beating a dead horse for some of you.
This list is just one avenue I'm hoping the message can reach someone of
influence at HQ. Thanks for any fixes/enhancements you can make.
Below is a forward from my last ward's ward webmaster and while not
intended
Yes, I was referring to the wiki on ldsoss.org. Add your suggestions
here: http://ldsoss.org/index.php/Suggestions_for_Ward_Websites
My worry is that the list of suggestions is getting so long that the most
critical ones get diluted. In my experience, the most critical needs are
1) support for i
The great achilles heel of using the church's system for emailing
is that only
the individual can edit his or her own email address.
Couldn't agree more. The problem lies in the fact that email
addresses and preferred names are not sync'ed with MLS like phone
numbers and addresses are. I
On the wiki, under Suggestions for Ward Web Sites I recently added a
Home and Visiting Teaching heading with a link to the sample HT/VT
Reporting site offered earlier in this thread and the sample "Elders
Quorum Organizer" that Bryan Murdock offered. I included the
positive and negative fe
> The site looks very nice. I couldn't get the reports to work but I was
> able to see how to enter in the visit information.
Were you getting an error under "Generate a Report"? It needs an Admin
pswd, "LDSOSS". I just confirmed it again with various OS's and browsers
(IE & Firefox on Win, Lin
Hi All-
I understand the Church may be planning to develop an official online
system for tracking/reporting Home and Visiting Teaching, integrated
into MLS and the local unit web sites? Below is a pointer to an
unofficial one that has been in use in my stake for a few years now.
It has
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or
1-800-453-3860 x23500
-Greg
> On 8/7/06, Greg Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I have not completely confirmed this, but it is my suspicion that when a
>> clerk goes to move a record of of the unit, and he specifies the new
>> add
I have not completely confirmed this, but it is my suspicion that when a
clerk goes to move a record of of the unit, and he specifies the new
address and/or new unit name, if ALL the contact information is not
re-entered in the fields, it is stripped when the record moves. In other
words, even if
Hi Bill-
Looking back at the list archive, Stacey posted some Perl on Jan 27, 2006
under the thread titled "Stake/Ward Web Site Utilities" that uploads
calendar events from Outlook (via csv). Maybe that can help. I wouldn't
know of any official Church effort.
Also, not sure if this is an issue
Failed for me on both Safari v2.0.3 and Firefox v1.0.4 with the
following error:
Error: the XML response that was returned from the server is invalid.
Received:
Could not perform query: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check
the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for th
On Mar 4, 2006, at 8:25 AM, Bill Pringle wrote:
(actually, two reports, a public one that contains non-sensitive
information, and a private one for leaders.)
Any plans to enable online access to what Bill is calling public and
private information? (A Bishop logs on and has access to
con
> 3. Similar questions for vcard...
Hi Pete-
Here's how our ward uses vCards. I can attach a sample .vcf file if it
would be helpful. We include the following per individual:
photo (as posted on the LUWS)
preferred name
ward name (for sorting/grouping in your desktop address book)
> My experience using MLS and working with support has led me to believe
> that there is some gross incompetence going on somewhere. I think that
> the system is very poorly designed, and easily-reproducible (and
> easily-fixable) bugs that I first reported a year and a half ago are still
> irrita
> And I believe that it's too burdensome to the Church for its
> members to expect Church Headquarters to initiate and run every good
> idea. We need to be willing to do good works on our own, which from
> what I've read is what this group is all about.
I wonder, would the Church ever open up the
Yes, just what Erik said and here are a few more to add to the wish list:
- allow ALL ward leaders (listed on the Leadership Directory) unmoderated
access to the Email Broadcasts, not just ward/stake web admins. (Which
brings up a related issue that the whole site could use the concept of
levels
Yes, here too. We hack in phone number types (cell, home, work). I wish
MLS/lds.org handled a unique cell and work for each member, then a common
"home" number per household.
Ideally, both members and clerks could update contact information
(address, phone, email, preferred name), members via 'U
>> Regarding the ward directory, Im hopeful this calendar export will
>> prove useful enough to convince those who own the decision to allow the
>> same for the ward list.
>
> Hopeful as well... Then I can get rid of another screen scraper and the
> support that goes along with it. I assume the
I've got the same underlying question. How does the Church feel about us
passing these "screen scraping" tools around? That calendar importer
sounds very useful. Members of our ward have also written several
utilities to help us get more out of the Stake and Ward websites and MLS.
Two possibly
Hi All-
Is there a good place to send these? Our unit has been sending them to
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (with the blessing of our Stake Admin). Honestly,
it feels like a black hole. Is there a better course of action? Does HQ
have a system for receiving and processing user reported bugs and
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