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Change area of check-in group

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One of my check-in "Area"s in Rock is "Early Childhood", which covers our children ages 0-1st grade. Within that area, are check-in groups like "Nursery" (Birth-23 months), 2 year olds, 3 year olds, etc.

Our volunteers have requested that the nursery kids start getting a diaper bag nametag printed. Only the nursery kids.

So I think I need to split that group out to it's own area (or sub-area). The problem is, I don't want to lose the attendance data for that group that we have to date, and I can't seem to move the groups around between areas (only within a single area).

Can I safely simply change the parent of that check-in group directly in SQL, or are there other dependancies that would get broken if I did that?

  • Michael Garrison

    Michael Garrison

    Edit: Wrong nomenclature. I should have asked if I can safely change the GroupTypeId of the check-in group, not the ParentGroupId (which is blank)

    • Michael Garrison

      Michael Garrison

      Not yet- other than rocksolidchurchdemo.com. I did try moving a group there and it appeared to work, but if there are dependencies or other redundant fields that should get updated at the same time when moving from one GroupTypeId to another, I'm worried those won't surface right away. I was hoping someone familiar with the programming could speak to whether more needs to be updated than just that one field.

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        Hey Michael, I've sucessfully changed a groups type by changing just the one value. It wasn't a check-in group but it was one with existing attendance data. I found after doing so that the group member roles needed to be updated.

        • Michael Garrison

          Michael Garrison

          OK, thanks for letting me know what you found. The group member roles getting goofed up is the type of thing I was afraid would happen when forcing the change, but I don't think there are any such roles in check-in groups.


          Think I'll give it a shot and have a push-button solution to put it back on the fly if check-in breaks this weekend =) I'll report back.

          • Michael Garrison

            Michael Garrison

            The single "GroupTypeId" change did the trick and ran without errors this weekend.


            Also FWIW, since I couldn't find it clearly stated in the documentation and in case someone searches for this later, check-in sub-areas do NOT inherit name tags to be printed from the parent area. Which is honestly not what I expected based on the UI, but is certainly the most configurable and ideal for my particular need.