Today at 6:19pm, Jay Askren said:
One last note: I may be wrong about this, but last time I looked, I seem
to remember that MLS had support for adding custom "talents" or somesuch
to a user's record, so that things like has a truck, chainsaw, or
generator, is a doctor, nurse, or EMT, or is trained in CPR, first aid,
home construction, or emergency radio communications, could be added
directly in MLS, so you wouldn't need to write a separate application at
all, nor worry about exporting sensitive MLS data to somewhere else. Plus
it would get backed up automatically every time MLS gets backed up, and
possibly even backed up to Church HQ with the other data.
Interesting, I'll have to check into that. Can MLS then export the data?
Part of the purpose of the software is to create reports, visualize the
data, and help the Emergency Preparedness create zones that I mention on the
web page. It would be really nice if I could write a plugin for MLS to do
this.
I presume that it can at least be shown in reports and printed, otherwise,
what's the point of letting a user put it in? I'm not positive about
exporting, because I haven't seen any ward in our stake use it yet. One
thing that some of them have used though is the "Geographical Code" field.
Its purpose is to let you assign each member to a geographic zone, then
you can include that in reports, sort by it, etc., and I know it _does_
get exported. The ward who uses it has had pretty good success with it.
Plugins for MLS... that would be _so_ nice.
Mac
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