Question

Photo of Matt McCoy

1

Where can I view a list of Families and People that are in the database?

4

I may just be missing it, but is there a place to view a list of families and people other than reports or in Group Viewer?

  • Photo of Jim Michael

    0

    Matt-

    These kind of "lists" are exposed in Rock as "Data Views." If you look under Tools | Data Views and expand Foundational Views you will see the few that are already defined in the beta... one of them being Adult Members and Attendees. You can also easily create your own... for example, if you add a new one and filter on Group Type = Family, you will get a list of all families in the database. Dataviews don't look terribly impressive in the beta right now, but they will be extrememly powerful once you start using them because dataviews can act as filters for other data views. Trust me, that's cool ;-)

  • Photo of Mike Peterson

    1

    If you are willing to use Reports, you could create a nice report to do exactly what you want

    To make the "All Families" report, first make the "Families" dataview that Jim mentioned, then create the "All Families" report as follows

    • Applies To: Group
    • Data View: Families
    • Fields
      • Field Type: Name (Show in Grid = False)
      • Field Type: Liquid, Template: (see screenshot)

    Here is a screenshotFamily Report with Link.png

  • Photo of Matt McCoy

    0

    Thank you. Is there a way to make it where you can click on a record to pull up that person or family?

     

    • Jim Michael

      Jim Michael

      To be honest, I don't know the answer to that. I would think that the module controlling the result set of the Data View would have to be extended/modified to do so, but there could also be some trick I'm just not familiar with to make it happen. Hopefully someone closer to the core product can jump in and let you know.

      • Nick Airdo

        Nick Airdo

        Great question Matt! Mike's "To make an 'All People' with report... " answer shows you how to do that. And, as you can see in his screenshot, if uses a DataView and gives you more control over what you see in the report -- including the ability to create Liquid template columns that include links to other pages (passing data from the report data cell to the page) as he shows.

      • Photo of Mike Peterson

        0

        To make an "All People" with report, do something similar People Report with Link.png