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Photo of Guy Corrigall

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Directory

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Is It possible to create and print a directory directly from this program?

  • Photo of Jim Michael

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    While there is no specific "print directory" functionality in Rock, you should be able to leverage the document merge feature to merge your people/data into a printable Word doc. Rock has a pretty powerful merge capability. See here for more detail: http://www.rockrms.com/Rock/BookContent/9/64#mergedocuments

  • Photo of Nate Barber

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    Directory TEST.docx

    Save this file and upload it to your Rock as a "Merge Template" and then merge the Report or DataView you want to display in the directory. Be sure to click "Combine Family Members" to print the directory by family.

    I have not figured out a way to add photos yet, but I'm working on it. Otherwise, this is a relatively simple way to print families in a directory format for whatever groups you want.

  • Photo of Michael Manning

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    Nate, I downloaded the merge template however it actually merges each family to one page each... is there some coding to add to the template that wouldn't break each family per page?

    • Nate Barber

      Nate Barber

      You will have to do a find and replace for the paragraph symbol in Word. That will make them show multiple families per page. It only takes a few seconds, so I have not tried to make Rock do it for me.

    • Photo of Arran France

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      I'll throw in on this issue that Rock has a directory block in v6 that'll list people like a physically directory would, only electronically. You can format this to be suitable for printing.

    • Photo of Craig Mashburn

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      I am trying to use this functionality but would like a bit different format. I am brand new to Rock and the coding you used in that test doc is like a foreign language to me. Have any of y'all worked on this and come out with anything else or with any improvements? We must have a printable directory for Rock to work.

      I have also not really found any resource for learning the Lava that is in that test doc either.

      • Craig Mashburn

        Craig Mashburn

        Been able to make changes needed, however, when Combing Families, it stops sorting by name. Not sure what it is sorting by.

      • Photo of Jon Morrissette

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        any updates on this thread?

      • Photo of Craig Mashburn

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        Directory Merge (ORIGINAL).html

        Here is an HTML merge that we are using when we need to print a member directory.

      • Photo of Robert Fuller III

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        Thanks for this code! I am using it and modifying it to our desires. One question I have is: Why does it display (out of normal order) families where the "head of houshold" (the man) has been marked deceased? I have two families where the husband was a member, and has died since our implementation of ROCK, and for some reason it wants to display them first. They are not contained in the data view that I initiate the merge from. Any thoughts? I think I am going to put the question to the chat forum as well, but since you are familiar with the code, I thought I would ask you first.

      • Photo of Craig Mashburn

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        The only thing I can figure is the Combine Families is pulling in everyone with each family no matter what. When we have a deceased person, we take them out of the family and have a known relationship back to the family. Keeps them from ever showing up.

      • Photo of Stephanie Francis

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        Michael/ Nate

        Same issue and need more info... do a find/replace for the paragraph symbol, but what am I replacing it with??