>I'm new to this online support resource for Ebase. I'm the Development >Director for an American, Christian, non-profit school in Sao Paulo, >Brazil and found out about ebase through some web-searching. I've >downloaded ebase and will be migrating our database to it. I'm excited >about how complete this free tool is (so thanks). > >My questions is how can I customize ebase to handle a walkathon/jogathon >event where totals can be calculated based on one-time gift pledges or >laps run/jogged times amount per lap pledged? do I need FileMaker Pro to >customize ebase for this particular type of fundraising? There are a couple of ways to handle this, depending on what you want to do, and what resources are at your disposal. Easy, no customization - Post participation in the event as an Action record. Pledges and payments get recorded in the appropriate file, with source codes and notes in the pay memo field to attach the records to the event. This can be done without FileMaker, but might not record all you want to about the event. More complex, requiring FileMaker and some knowledge of databases - Add an additional file to the ebase file set, for event registration. You can use this for recording registration in the event, whether they paid a registration fee, the size t-shirt they need, etc. Payments would still get recorded in the ebase payments file, but you can save event-specific info in the new file. -- -- Dave Shaw H4 Consulting tel: 206-954-7526 fax: 206-625-1338 ------------------ Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
