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Fun & Creative Integration Codes?

Last post 04-22-2009, 1:23 PM by cshelton. 3 replies.
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     03-26-2009, 1:04 PM 14046

    Fun & Creative Integration Codes?

    Does anyone else have any fun codes that they have written for ways to integrate F1 with their church website? We were under the impression that this would be easier to integrate and hoping that with the new API coming out that we wouldn't have to put a lot of hours and man power into creating something from scratch... Anyone have any luck?

    Types of things we are looking for:

    *Online Directories (I saw the post that Andrew Long had in January 2009- very helpful but would love to see how others are getting around this idea- it gets us thinking outside of the box!)
    *Discussion Boards
    *Connecting Small Group Managers within different Ministries (Right now, we have links on our websites that will direct people to their Life Group and a separate link to their Serving Teams- it would be nice if there was a way that there are links in a frame and inside the frame switches to the various lists)

    I will take whatever you got!! :)

    Thanks for building the Kingdom together,
    Rachel


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    Rachel Mahoney
    Database Coordinator & Statistical Analyst
    Quest Community Church
    Lexington, Kentucky
    http://www.questcommunity.com

     04-02-2009, 11:29 AM 14093 in reply to 14046

    Re: Fun & Creative Integration Codes?

    Hi Rachel,

    I don't have any codes to share, we have a full-time web designer who has implemented a Content Management System for us to be able to edit our web site.  However, you mentioned something interesting about a log in for your serving teams.  Do you guys use group manager through weblinks for your serving teams?  I would like to know how this works for you, if you do.  We have ministry leaders asking for this but we are afraid it gives too much access to personal information.  Let me know!

    Thanks!

    All for Him,

    Crystal Shelton

    The Cove Church

     04-16-2009, 1:28 PM 14193 in reply to 14093

    Re: Fun & Creative Integration Codes?

    Thanks for responding, Crystal!

    We have set up two "small group managers" within our system for each campus... One for our Life Group Ministry and one for our Church Wide Events Ministry. The Life Groups are set up with coaches (at the Activity Grouping name and Super Group Leaders at the Sub Group status. Then we have each of the individual groups located under the Super Group... The same concept was applied to our ministry teams under our Church Wide Events (set up with our Lead Team as the Activity Group and their areas under them down to the individual teams as the RLCs).

     The whole purpose of creating these assignments for our Leaders and Team Members is so that the teams and groups can have access to each other's information (Mailing Address, Phone Numbers and Email Addresses)- It was our work around for the inability to do an online directory.(Everyone has a participant and staffing assignment so they can view information. We manage the Staffing assignments by jobs so that we can run reports about the leadership/membership of the teams/groups. So there are Dept Leaders, Team leaders, Apprentices and Members as jobs within F1. Cumbersome- I know but I really can't think of a better way... can you?

     What I was hoping to find out is that other churches do a similar thing and have an iframe or some other way to get to the other modules (since the addresses are different since the Small Group manager is under 2 different ministries). 

     It hasn't worked the best in our community... We came from a database that gave people information about each other and very group based. F1 has been disappointing in the area of userability for the greater church. I am hoping that the new Group funcionality is going to be better...

    Let me know if you have any suggestions or questions!

     Rachel Mahoney


    *~-.,.-~*~-.,.-~*~-.,.-~*~-.,.-~
    Rachel Mahoney
    Database Coordinator & Statistical Analyst
    Quest Community Church
    Lexington, Kentucky
    http://www.questcommunity.com

     04-22-2009, 1:23 PM 14221 in reply to 14193

    Re: Fun & Creative Integration Codes?

    Hi Rachel,

     Thanks so much for letting me know how you are using group manager.  To my knowledge, we don't use iframes on our website.  Here is a link to it if you would like to check it out.  This will take you straight to our "Ministry Login" page where we have different buttons for people to sign in to their different group managers.  If you have any questions, I can refer you to our web developer on staff, as I don't know all the behind the scenes code he has used to create our website.  www.covechurch.org/ministrylogin

    Thanks again!

    Crystal

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