You
can change who gets marked in the Added by field by going to Edit; Preferences;
Application and typing in your name. Everyone should be told to do that before
beginning work. We more or less force it by always starting ebase from
startup.102 which mostly brings up the above dialog box inviting them to
effectively login and then starting ebase. V2 actually inforces
this.
What
is the point of having volunteers if staff has to do almost all of it? We have
volunteers enter data but it is marked with their name. On a daily basis we run
a proofreading report which prints out all the critical information that was
entered and another (different) volunteer takes that printout and the stack of
paper which had the original data entry and proofreads it. With handwritten
membership/order forms there are opportunities for "handwriting recognition"
errors.
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From: Holly Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 4:22 PM
To: TechRocks Support
Subject: [support] RE: Added ByShaugn -Volunteer data can certainly be a sticky-wicket. I recommend to most of the groups I work with that they create an excel spreadsheet with column headings that volunteers do the data entry in. Then, a staff member can review for problems, and have the volunteer fix anything *before* all those street addresses wioth no capital letters make it into your database. Once the data looks good, staff can import the data from the excel spreadsheet. You can also save all the excel worksheets in a centralplace on your network and use a naming protocol that indicates which volunteer did the data entry.Holly Ross
Consultant
TechRocks
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From: Shaugn Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 4:12 PM
To: TechRocks Support
Subject: [support] Added By
Thanks. I appreciate your input on this.
Shaugn
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