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WINDOWS 10, POWERCHURCH PLUS 11.55

Hi All,

This is my first post! I'm an office manager at a church in Chicago. Thanks in advance for any responses!

I'm trying to figure out how to run custom reports based on the hobbies/interests of new members. We hand out a paper "New Member" that has a Hobbies/Interests section like this:

"I would be interested in helping/participating in any of the following activities:
Church Officer
Disaster Relief (DART)
Bible Study
Singing in the choir
Sunday Morning Greeter Hosting
Coffee Hour
etc etc etc"

I want to be able to input this data while entering new members thru Integrated Data Entry in the Membership Module and then run reports on them. e.g. A report that shows all members interested in "Bible Study." OR A report that shows all members who joined in the last year who are interested in "Bible Study."

Does anyone know if this can be done?

Thank you!!

officelvpc wrote:WINDOWS 10, POWERCHURCH PLUS 11.55

Hi All,

This is my first post! I'm an office manager at a church in Chicago. Thanks in advance for any responses!

I'm trying to figure out how to run custom reports based on the hobbies/interests of new members. We hand out a paper "New Member" that has a Hobbies/Interests section like this:

"I would be interested in helping/participating in any of the following activities:
Church Officer
Disaster Relief (DART)
Bible Study
Singing in the choir
Sunday Morning Greeter Hosting
Coffee Hour
etc etc etc"

I want to be able to input this data while entering new members thru Integrated Data Entry in the Membership Module and then run reports on them. e.g. A report that shows all members interested in "Bible Study." OR A report that shows all members who joined in the last year who are interested in "Bible Study."

Does anyone know if this can be done?

Thank you!!

Yes, you would setup those activities in Activities and Skills. You would then add those members to that 'activity. I would set these activities up with a number series of 9000 to 9998. This way when you actually run reports on members of an activity, you can exclude these 'wish list' or 'area of interest' type items.

However, you can't add them directly if you're using the "Add Family Assistant" wizard. It does not have that capability. You can however, add them after you finish adding the new family. If you're adding the new family 'manually' by creating the Family Mailing List profile, then the Personal Profiles, you can add them to these 'wish list' activities from the Activities tab on the Personal Profile.

Also, any reports would not need to be 'custom reports', I'm fairly sure that the standard Activities & Skills built-in reports can do what you're looking for.

Then once a member decides to join a Bible study, or a committee, you can delete them from the 9000 series activity, and put them in a normally numbered activity as a member of that activity. This will then remove them from future "area of interest" reports.

Awesome, I'm testing things out in the Activities and Skills section (I didn't even know it existed!) but it looks like its going to work

officelvpc wrote:Awesome, I'm testing things out in the Activities and Skills section (I didn't even know it existed!) but it looks like its going to work

Glad to assist.