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Attendance For Worship & Groups

I am having a problem getting Attendance to work (at least the way I am thinking it should work).

I would like to track attendance for both our Sunday morning worship service and Wednesday evening classes. I set up groups for both of these and have enabled group attendance options for them. I can go to "Group Viewer," select the "Sunday Worship" group, and click on the "Attendance" button. I am able to add attendance for a date and it shows all the weeks from the time I set up the schedule (so I assume I have the schedule set up correctly for this group). This all seems to work great and, while in "Group Attendance," I see the "Attendance Count" and "Percent Attended." The proplem is, I never get anything on the "Family Attendance" 16-week counter or the graph on the individual's profile page.

I have also tried going into "Check-In Details" under "Attendance Analytics" and doing attendance that way. Having to search and add every member each time I do it is very time consuming. (Maybe I'm missing something here too.) Even after going through that, I still get nothing on the "Family Attendance" information on the profiles (although the data does show up in the analytics reports after I enter it here).

We would really like to be able to see when the last time a member attended from their profile page. I understand that the graph only shows Family attendance and that would work for now. Again, maybe I am just missing something, but I have looked at it several times and cannot seem to figure it out. I have looked through several of the answers to similar questions posted on the site and tried most of the answers. I also tried looking for answers in the documentation, but most of the attendance information I can find is about check-ins and kiosks.I have set up everything under the "Check-In" section, but we do not want to use a kiosk system for now.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  • Photo of DJ Grick

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    Our admin team wanted a way to keep track of individuals attendance based off our Keeping in Touch forms.  After playing with a few ideas we ended up creating copy of the check-in workflow, changing it to post to first service attendance (and then made a copy and tweaked it to work with second service). We then added both as an action on peoples profiles. 

    So now our admin teams searches for the name on the KIT form, action drop-down, selects service, confirms date(set by lava to previous Sunday) and service and clicks confirm (one search and 3 clicks per person). I am glad I don't have that task...but they got excited about it. 

    If you are interested I can send you screenshots at some point.