Tip of the Week August 1, 2016

Find out how a service entry was created, or if the entry was edited. Service records in Volgistics can be created in a variety of different ways. Sometimes it is useful to be able to tell which method was used to create the record, or if the entry has been edited. To find this out

Tip of the Week June 06, 2016

Clean up your report list by deleting multiple reports at a time As you or other system operators use Volgistics’ reporting features, your ‘Print’ page may accumulate a large number of custom reports. Some of these may be automatic reports or other useful reports that will be used again in the future, while others may

Tip of the Week February 22, 2016

Include the Source, Batch, or Directive fields for service entries on Service Details Reports Service Detail reports are designed to provide specific information about service entries that appear on the volunteer’s Service tab. When you create a custom Service Detail report and select to list volunteers on the Options tab, you can include volunteer fields

Tip of the Week December 7, 2015

Archive old help inquires to “clean-up” your mailbox The “Help E-mail” tab of the Volgistics Mailbox is designed to provide an additional reference for System Operators. All System Operators in the account can review past questions and responses in case they may find the information helpful. However, there may be past help inquiries that are

Tip of the Week November 30, 2015

Hide a field to omit it from Address Label Reports The Address Label Reports are designed to take the normal address fields in use and format them as a mailing label. There may be times when you do not wish to have a field appear on your labels. For example, if you are using the

Tip of the Week November 23, 2015

Keep a local back-up of your volunteer data. Volgistics includes the ability to create a local back-up of your volunteer information by using Excel spreadsheet reports. One reason for making the report is that when these are saved to your local system, you can use them to access to your volunteer data in a situation

Tip of the Week October 19, 2015

How to Stop Automatic Reports from Printing Volgistics has a feature that can be setup so that reports will automatically be run during the overnight maintenance cycle. These reports can be delivered to your account’s In Box tab on a certain day each week, or on a certain date each month. There may be times

Tip of the Week August 17, 2015

Print service report for a single archived volunteer record. There may be times you want to print service reports for archived volunteer records. One way to do this is to create a custom Excel report that contains service information for all archived volunteers. Help topic 1997 shows how to do this. Archived records also show

Tip of the Week August 10, 2015

Use floating subtotals for information on service in a specific period of time. In addition to regular service hour entries, Volgistics automatically keeps a total for month-to-date (MTD), year-to-date (YTD), and life hours for volunteers. There are also two floating subtotal fields that you can use to keep track of service performed during monthly time

Tip of the Week June 8, 2015

Import and print schedule in Excel. Volgistics includes a Schedule Report feature that allows you to print customized schedules in PDF format. Help topic 8255 has information on these reports. However, there may be times you want to have the schedule in Excel format. There is not a report that is able to do this,