Tip of the Week February 20, 2017

Include archived volunteers in Excel spreadsheet reports

Your Volgistics database is divided into archived and non-archived sections. The Archive is designed for long term storage of inactive volunteers. In your account’s service level, archived records cost significantly less because they have more limited functionality than non-archived records. For example, archived volunteers cannot be tagged or scheduled, access VicNet or VicTouch, or receive email or text messages, and will not appear on birthday lists.

Another important difference is that archived volunteer information is not available on most reports in Volgistics. Archived records will still be included on Service Summary and Service Details reports, and can optionally be included in Statistics and Excel spreadsheet reports. To print a list of archived record information, the best option is to use a custom Excel Spreadsheet report and include the archived records on the Options tab. You can learn more in Help topic 1997.

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