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Named Location and custom attributes

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On a geo-fenced "Named Location" I would like to specify a neighborhood and let Rock know which pastor is responsible for overseeing that location. (I'll use it as a lookup in a workflow later). Unfortunately I don't see an option to add a custom attribute to a named location or it's parent, so I went under General Settings / Defined Types / Location type and set a custom "Attribute for a Defined Type". I called it "Overseer" and made it a "Person" field type.

Now when I go back to my named locations, I expect to see that attribute available in the location definition. No luck though! Is there a right way to do this?

  • Michael Garrison

    Michael Garrison

    I've just found that the "overseer" attribute I created is available only on the specific location TYPE. So in the list where Rock comes with Campus, Building and Room, if I click on one of those, I can now set an "Overseer" over (for instance) the "Room" type of location. Not each room. So I'm still looking for a way to add a custom attribute to the actual LOCATIONS, rather than the location TYPE...anyone out there?

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      Assuming that Rock v4 has been the magic bullet, I have just gone back and revisited this. It works splendidly (I just had to get it through my head that group members are different than sub-groups, and rename member roles and names appropriately).

      Now I'll just have to see what I can do about getting at that information in a workflow ;-)

      Thanks

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      You can add "location" attributes under Admin Tools > Security > Entity Attributes...

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      However, you may want to consider using a particular group type as your "neighborhoods."  That would still allow you to add a fenced location to each neighborhood, but it would also allow you to have multiple leaders ( and roles ), have child "groups", and let you take advantage of the mapping tools provided in Rock.  Here's some examples of how that might look...

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      In addition, when group finder, and leader toolbox functionality is added to rock in future updates, it will most likely be dependent on the areas ( "neighborhoods" ) to be a particular type of group.

      • Michael Garrison

        Michael Garrison

        Great, thanks.
        It looks like having a specific group type is the way to go. But I'm not having success- can you help me spot where I went wrong?
        This isn't the order I did things in, but let me set it up this way so that it builds



        • I created a new group "Location Type" called "Boundary", allowing map selection and named location selection but not address selection

        • I created a new group type purpose called "City Region"

        • I created a new group type called "City Region". It's purpose is "City Region", it holds child group types of "City Region", the Location Selection Modes are "Named" and "Geo-fence", no roles (I deleted the "member" role as all neighborhoods are just neighborhoods, though I also tried creating "Neighborhood" and "Region" roles to no effect) and the location types are "Boundary". I set a "Group Attribute" called "Overseer" of type "Person".

        • I created a new group called "Neighborhoods" of purpose "City Region".

        • I created a new group called NH1 (as an example) whose parent was "Neighborhoods". Now when I go to set the "Meeting Details" and add a location, I can add a person as an overseer (great) and create a geo-fenced region on the map and it auto-populates that it is of type "boundary". But when I try to save that location, the "Meeting Details" still informs me "No locations found". No exceptions appear to be logged, it just doesn't save the boundary.