Adding family members - always ask for People Category
Benjamin West
We use three primary People Categories - Child, Young Person, Adult.
When adding family members to an Adult, Elvanto doesn't ask which category to use. Therefore when adding a child, it defaults to our Adult category because that was the last category a person was created in. After creating the child one must change the child to a Child category and update the fields which weren't initially visible.
Every subsequent person is then the last created category, so the second child added will be Child category.
Elvanto does ask for a family position, but this isn't tied to the categories.
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Arie Spaanderman
This should be changed asap!
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Corine Bouhuys
What is the update now on this issue? It still would be very useful if you could choose the people category when a person is added to the family. We have categories like new, visitor, leader, active member - so a new baby born by our leader directly becomes a leader. Well, it's prophetic but not suitable for good church management.
Benjamin West
Surely this is a simple fix?
Stewart Polley
Benjamin West:
Unfortunately not with our current "Add Family" system. The very first choice is "Which category" and everything after this step is based upon that choice.
The system was very much designed around entire families being in the same category.
Potentially when we rebuild this screen in the next few months though we can make it more dynamic so that changing category mid-way is easier to handle though.
Stewart Polley
Merged in a post:
'Add New Family Member' doesn't allow for new family member to be added to a different People Category to Primary Contact in Family in adding process
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Lachlan James
Would be great to have the option to choose the people category of new family members when they're added to the database via the family tab. At the moment the system 'assumes' that upon adding the new family member they go into the same people category as the primary contact in the family they are being added too.
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Sam Crawford
We have a people category called 'new' that we put all new adults in, and a people category called 'kids' that all kids go in. Currently we add all people created through check in to 'new' and then I move the children to 'kids'. But I would love it is this could be done manually when these people are being created.
Pete Sharp
Sounds great!
If you had the option to link demographic progressions to people categories it simplify the whole thing. Like Benjamin we have categories for Adults, Youth, Children
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Rohan Wright
Why use people categories for this? This is absolutely what Demographics is designed for :)
People categories are for understanding separate groups of people like church attenders, communuty outside church, newcomers etc.
Pete Sharp
People categories allows you to have different layouts. So you can have different layouts for Children, Youth, Adults. It is very handy when you have age related custom fields.
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Rohan Wright
Makes sense, We just leave the fields there even if they aren't relevant. Maybe a useful feature would be to have different layouts for different demographics :)
Pete Sharp
That would be messy with multiple demographics. It all depends how you have it set up. Keeping the profiles as minimal as possible is very helpful. Especially if your using tablets a lot. I take it you mainly use just the default fields?
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