> A cosmetic point - is there a way of changing the default header MFI
> name to the actual MFI name?

We will explore for future reports we build putting what's in the "Head Office" 
 Name field for the "MFI name" - would that meet your needs?

Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gayl Kennedy [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 1:31 AM
> To: A good place to start for users or folks new to Mifos.
> Subject: Re: [Mifos-users] Branch progress report "instructions"
> 
> Thanks for the excel file with the comments Kay, very helpful.
> A cosmetic point - is there a way of changing the default header MFI
> name to the actual MFI name?
> 
> Ryan, in an ideal world the fees issue will reduce as they make
> payments but it could take several months to get them cleared out of
> the system and get a more accurate picture of our overdue total
> amount.
> What I need in the immediate term is a report giving me the info from
> the Account Summary screen for the loan - showing the outstanding
> principle, interest, fees, penalty and total for each loan (with
> client and group name preferably).  We are struggling to figure out
> the table structure to know where to pull those fields from to
> generate a custom report.  Unfortunately the expert who was to help us
> create our custom reports had to leave unexpectedly so we are very
> behind schedule in that area of the project.  if anyone has anything
> which can help us overcome this please get it touch.
> 
> Regards
> gayl
> 
> On 29 September 2010 00:15, Ryan Whitney <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Gayl,
> >
> > Unfortunately that does fall a bit out of scope for the report.  It doesn't
> > make much sense to have fee amounts show up under the arrears portion.  The
> > workaround I proposed for migrating data does not work well with our current
> > reports.
> >
> > That said, once the client pays off the initial fee portion, wouldn't it
> > just be in arrears normally?
> >
> > Ryan
> >
> >
> > On 9/28/10 22:23, "Gayl Kennedy" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > hi
> > > has anybody put together a document outlining how to interpret the
> > > branch progress report?  if so I would appreciate getting a copy.
> > > If not I will put one together.  I have a question about something
> > > which I was not expecting to find on it.
> > > We had a cycle loan repaid early by a group who have since taken out a
> > > cycle 2 loan.
> > > in the branch progress report it shows the original cycle 1 loan in
> > > the All loans column and nothing in the Active loans as it is no
> > > longer active.
> > > Does that mean that the All Loans column will show all loans since
> > > mifos was implemented over time while the active loans column will
> > > only show those that are active?
> > > Even if the loan product is made inactive will it still show for
> > > historical purposes in this report?
> > >
> > > One big issue I have with the manual entry of existing loans which are
> > > in arrears is that it is not reflected in this report.  Per the advice
> > > from Ryan:
> > > Late Payments - The current amount of arrears is entered as a
> > > miscellaneous fee on the loan.  Mifos will then mark the account in
> > > arrears and the MFI will be able to collect against this amount.
> > >
> > > It is true that in mifos it will apply any payments initially against
> > > the fee so the principle remains in arrears but in the branch progress
> > > report those fees are not included as it just shows the principle.  If
> > > anyone can advise how to modify the report to include a column for
> > > fees in the branch progress report it would be much appreciated.
> > >
> > > regards
> > > Gayl
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