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Photo of Jennifer Johns

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Remove Group member status from group scheduler board

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Is there a way to remove group role from the group scheduler status board?  It takes up a significant amount of space and makes printing not very user user friendly.



  • Photo of Caleb DeLaurentis

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    Hey, you cannot do that, as far as I know, with the built in settings.

    I'll offer my advice, as I have similar needs at my church.

    The easiest answer you could explore is using dataviews and merge documents.

    You could probably find a creative way to make a dataview that has the information you want, and than create a merge document that creates a word file, showing the information how you would like. This is the far more simple answer, if you can create the correct data views to get the information.

    Can you get the specific data views you need? Depends... you can't search everything in the rock database like you can with lava and sql. But, its worth a shot, especially if you are not comfortable with editing webpages and simple programming.

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    More complicated answer:

    I wouldn't try to edit the default blocks in rock at all. If you are capable of doing that, you would find it far simpler to simply make your own page. When they don't offer something I need, using lava you can put something together that fits your specific need.

    Using creative lava and SQL, you can fairly easily make your own page that you could than format however you would like for printing. I have done this in several variations to display and print this information in various ways for my teams. 

    To print and display something like a volunteer list, a specific way, I would

    1) create a new page in Rock,

    2) add an HTML block

    3) Using lava, you can run SQL searches to get the information you need

    4) display the info with lava,

    5) format it with CSS and HTML, which can be used to format things specifically for printing from the browser which is very useful

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    If this is not descriptive enough, I could offer more information. 

    But, I would also say, Rock highly favors you do everything online when it comes to volunteers and scheduling. So even down to, having your volunteers sign up online and things, and see their schedules online. So if you are trying to do things on paper, its going to take a little bit of work to present the info in the way you would like. 

    So, the far easiest answer is, updating your procedures to reflect the workflow Rock gives you, which is doing everything in your browser. But, if you want to bend rock to your will a little more, it just takes some simple programming in lava.

    That is my experience, coming from a church that vastly prefers paper, vs online. So trying to still let rock do the work, while being able to print something I give people, isn't too hard. Just takes a little work. But once you put something together, it can make printing volunteer sheets really really easy.