Add Individuals as Guests in Group Attendance Reports
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Brendon Skinner
When adding guests in a group attendance report, they are currently just a number. But it would be really helpful to us if we were able to add their name, so that their attendance is logged in their profile's activity.
(much like the functionality available in mass adding individuals in service attendance reporting)
We watch our group statistics and reporting closely... but we are often getting inaccurate numbers out of Elvanto.
If someone tries out a different group to the one they were originally allocated in, they often attend several groups without that activity being logged. Then, if you generate a report of people who have or haven't attended a group in the last 3 months... the names and numbers are inaccurate.
Also, we recently had an archived person return to church through one of our groups. The group leader just adds them as a guest, and there is no pathway in, to be reactivated simply from the group report.
I'd also like to give group leaders the ability to direct people from the attendance report (like adding them to a people flow, or filling in a new person form, or volunteering form etc.) -- but any links I add into the custom text are not clickable. [maybe this is a different feature request altogether]
That way, as soon as the meeting is finished, the group leader(s) can action whatever discipleship moments happened in the meeting.
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Tyler Rasmussen
Agreed - if we have a visitor to our group that is someone in our database, we should be able to set that person as in attendance at that meeting without having to first add them to the group and then later remove them.
With this, it would be nice if there were some type of "regular guest" list that recommended adding certain people to a group if they are a guest at the group more than 1x in the last 6 meetings.
Abishai
I've had this request from our group leaders filling out attendance reports. It would be great to have this implemented as soon as possible.