User Support Forum

I am installing powerchurch at my new church from a windows xp pro machine onto our network. I have shared the powerchurch folder and mapped it on the other computers. The xp machines work fine but the vista laptop cannot see any of the subfolders unless I share them all. Any idea of how I can get v...

I am having trouble installing the new maintenance release on a server. The instructions say to install the MR on the same computer as PC10. I have it in the same directory and it keeps telling me it can't open PC10 or else I don't have enough memory. Both of these situations should be okay. We have...

Thanks for the reply, That was a good idea. I checked the contacts and some have email and some do not but Outlook is not recognizing any of the imported addresses as valid email. I am assuming because of the extra blank spaces at the end. If I delete one of the blank spaces, then Outlook recognizes...

The new Outlook sync feature works great to get the personal data into outlook. I can see it and everything in Outlook but when I try and create distribution lists, the imported names are not on the list. Has anyone else found this problem.
Ken

I export PowerChurch data quite regularly. Is there a way to save an export form so the same data can be exported each time. Right now, I have to rebuild the form each time.
Thanks for any input,

Do any of you export your membership data to Outlook? Is there a direct way to get activity info into outlook with the people. So far I am exporting to excel, then importing into outlook. Any easier ideas? I find outlook much easier to work with email. We still can't get PC to bulk email correctly.

I made a custom report under personal profiles which allows me to search for any first name in the database. Under membership, go to personal profiles and add one called first name or something. Then you pick the "profile first name" field, then pick the "starts with" operator, then type in the name...

I also would like to see the ability to take a head count for large events.
Also, does anyone have some good ideas on maintaining a list of small groups, including leaders, hosts, attendees, etc. I am finding it difficult to come up with a good solution.

Anyone found the best way to distinguish between those who have alreadly been in an activity (ie. newcomers class) and those currently in a class? We don't take weekly attendance but need to know who has already been in a class.

We have response cards that people fill in as well as receiptable donations which give us newcomers names. These are kept in PowerChurch. We then send a letter and do follow up. We also do periodic cleanup for people who have attended at one point but are no longer active.