Track members service interests

[mikenerney]

I would like to find a way to track the areas that individuals are interested in serving. For instance, if we have 100 different areas that people could possibly serve, I need a way to run a report of everyone interested in serving in nursery, for instance. Is there any way without having to create a separate skills/activity for each one? What I am looking for would have many sub-level service opportunities within various categories. For example, an annual special event might have a need for setup, cleanup, security, food service, etc. I would love to print out who is interested in very specific areas such as these under the overall heading of that event. Any ideas?

[NeilZ]

I would like to find a way to track the areas that individuals are interested in serving. For instance, if we have 100 different areas that people could possibly serve, I need a way to run a report of everyone interested in serving in nursery, for instance. Is there any way without having to create a separate skills/activity for each one? What I am looking for would have many sub-level service opportunities within various categories. For example, an annual special event might have a need for setup, cleanup, security, food service, etc. I would love to print out who is interested in very specific areas such as these under the overall heading of that event. Any ideas?

Mike,

The only way to do this, with 100 different areas, is to create 100 different activity interests. Now under that you can reuse Activity Department, as well as Activity Type, and role. But you will have to assign the activity interests against people, and in order to do that you have to create the Activity. I would use a numbering scheme outside of the normal Activity numbers, say 9000 series, so you can then use that as Interests, rather than an Activity.

You'd assign that to a person, then when you run a report, you can then run the standard Selected Activities & Skills report, choose your selection criteria, and get the data.

However, you can't avoid creating and assigning the skills. May I suggest you take a look at the User Manual's overview of Activities & Skills, either the printed version, or the version that you can pull up from within the program.