We have added middle name and suffix to the fields available on the individual person records:
These fields are also available for update in the user portal. Moreover, with the recent addition of the audit trail, synagogue administrators can now find the source of every update–the who, what, and when of updates to any of the family/member information.
ShalomCloud now captures an audit trail of changes and deletions to certain critical portions of data–initially, Yahrzeits, Families, and Individuals. This video shows how it works:
ShalomCloud Audit Trail from Norman Snyder on Vimeo.
In a nutshell, the audit trail captures when the change occurred, by whom, what changed, a version number, and the content of each changed field both before and after the change.
On deletions, it captures the entire record that was deleted–thus enabling you to re-add a record if it were inadvertently deleted.
There is one additional field included in the member query–current zip code.
Zip had already been available in the Family/Household query, but this brings a little more convenience to gather info about individuals.
Couple of points:
It is not necessary to enter an entire zip–if you enter 1234, the program will find persons in 12340, 12341, … , 12349.
The term “current zip” means that the query is aware of whether that person is residing at the primary or secondary address. For example, if the primary address is within zip code 12345, with the secondary address at 98765–if the person is currently at the secondary address, asking for 12345 will not include that person.
Now available–accepting and tracking Internet contributions:
ShalomCloud Handling of Contributions from Norman Snyder on Vimeo.
Previously, when you selected Queries => Household (a.k.a Family), and you wanted to pull by billing status, such as Active, Inactive, or Resigned, you were limited to
With this enhancement, you can select as many statuses as you wish, by simply sweeping your mouse pointer over several consecutive items, or using Ctrl-click to select several non-consecutive items.
ShalomCloud Multi-select on Billing Status from Norman Snyder on Vimeo.
Asked for, and now delivered–the ability to send text messages from ShalomCloud.
Apparently text messages reach over 95% of their intended audience, whereas email is doing well to reach 30%. Therefore, for short, time-sensitive announcements (service time changes, reminders about classes and events), this might be your preferred channel for reaching a selection of congregants quickly and effectively.
ShalomCloud Text Messaging from Norman Snyder on Vimeo.
Suppose you want to know
There is now a way to pull that data (and export it to spreadsheet).
This three-minute video shows how.
ShalomCloud Query by Date Joined from Norman Snyder on Vimeo.
Suppose you’ve printed several labels, and now have a few more to print, for a selected audience. You’d like to start where you left off, rather than inserting a whole new sheet of labels.
For example, suppose you’ve asked the system for a list of Board members:
Now, you want to print labels for this audience–and the latest sheet of labels used the first row and the first label of the second row–a total of four labels.
Simply change the starting label number to 5:
The result will be a sheet that looks like this:
Next time printing labels, you’d start with 12.
If you wish to gain a finer designation of family members, beyond what can be inferred from age alone, we now offer a field that we’re calling Role within Family. Typical values would be Parent, Minor child, Adult child, and perhaps others such as Elderly parent.
You may then use these fields within the queries and reports–for example, to find all the minor children not enrolled in religious school.
Below is a 3 1/2 minute video illustrating the feature.
