The Rapid Attendance Entry block allows you to record attendance for lots of people very quickly. This could come in handy for certain situations, such as checking a lot of people in for a worship service and wanting to do so as fast as possible. Rapid Attendance Entry can also be very useful outside of attendance. It's great for entering communication cards, prayer cards or other information you might collect in large volumes. The Rapid Attendance Entry block makes these tasks quick and simple. Let's look at how it works. To start, navigate to People > Rapid Attendance Entry. You’ll begin the process by selecting the group for which you want to record attendance. The group's settings and attributes determine which options will be available on the screen. Group - Select the group for which you want to enter attendance. The group’s configuration will determine what other fields appear on this page. In some cases, Group and Attendance Date will be the only fields you see.Location - If the group has multiple locations, select the one you need for attendance.Schedule - You’ll be prompted to select a schedule only if there are multiple schedules for the chosen Location. Otherwise, this field will not appear.Attendance Date - Provide the date for which you want to record attendance. You can either choose a date from the calendar or enter a date manually.Campus - You can optionally select a campus, which will filter the Locations for that campus. This field can be shown or hidden by updating the block settings. After filling out the required fields as described above, click the Start button to proceed to the page pictured below. Your page may look slightly different depending on how your organization has configured the block settings. Search - Provide a person or family name and click the Go button to proceed with recording attendance. As always, we recommend doing a thorough search before adding a new person or family.Attendance Details - The group, schedule, and attendance date selections from the prior page are displayed here for reference.Current Attendance Count - This count will increase as each person’s attendance is recorded. Block settings can be used to turn this into a link to an attendance page, allowing you to easily access the list of recorded attendees.Settings - Click the ti ti-settings button to go back to the first screen. This is how you’ll change the group, location, schedule or attendance date.Add Family - If the family you're looking for isn't in Rock yet, you can add a new family directly from here. After entering a name and clicking Go, you’re ready to start recording attendance...and more! Again, keep in mind that there are many block settings to tailor this page to your organization’s needs. The example pictured below highlights some useful features, but they aren’t required and may not be visible when you access the page in your system. Person List - The panel along the left will show you individuals who match the search criteria you provided. You can switch between people and families by clicking here.Family Information - Information for the selected person's family is displayed near the top of the block. You can edit the family’s address without leaving the page by clicking the ti ti-pencil icon. Add individuals to the family by clicking the ti ti-user-plus icon.Attendance Selection - Select the available boxes for anyone who should have attendance recorded. In this example, we can’t select Noah or Alex because they are too young. Administrators can change the age restriction in the block settings.Select Person - Click a person to view information like their age, email or phone number. Depending on your block settings, there are other actions you can perform elsewhere on the page, which we’ll describe in the following points.Person Details - The details for the selected person are displayed in this area. This information can be edited directly from this page by clicking the ti ti-pencil icon.Workflows (I'm interested in...) - If enabled in the block settings, workflows can be launched from this page when the page is saved. The title “I’m interested in” and the available workflows can be changed in the block settings.Note - This block’s settings can be configured to enable Person note entries directly from the page. The block settings also let you specify which Note Types can be used. If multiple Note Types are allowed, then the person entering attendance can choose which one to use.Prayer Request - Prayer requests can be entered if allowed by the block settings. There are several block settings related to prayer requests. In the example pictured above, we used the block settings to enable the Urgent, Public and Prayer Category fields.Save - We're bringing attention to the Save button as a reminder that this single button applies to all the changes you've made in the areas described above. With a single click you can add the note, create the prayer request, launch a workflow and, of course, save attendance. Workflows launched from this block will be passed the person as the workflow’s entity. If they exist, the block will also fill in any of the workflow attributes listed below: Group - The group for which the attendance is being entered. The attribute should be of type group.Location - The selected location for which attendance is being entered.Schedule - The schedule selected for entering the attendance. Block Settings It’s easy to see that there’s a lot more to Rapid Attendance Entry than entering attendance. But to truly understand all your options for this feature, we’ll need to dive into the block settings. There are a lot of settings to cover, so we’ll break it down into a few parts. General Settings - Here you can update the name of the block. You can also change the pages that individuals will be taken to when attempting to add a new family or view attendance list data.Enable Attendance - Because there’s so much that can be done on this page, you might choose to disable the attendance feature entirely. This could be useful if you’re adding this block to a custom page that should only be used for entering contact cards or prayer requests.Parent Group - You can limit which groups are available for attendance entry by designating a parent group. Only groups that are listed under the selected parent group will be selectable.Attendance Group - By selecting a group here, you can limit the block to only allow attendance entry for the selected group.Show Can Check-In Relationships - If enabled, individuals who have a “Can check in” Known Relationship to the selected person will be available for attendance entry.Attendance Age Limit - Individuals younger than the age provided here cannot be marked as having attended. This can be left as zero to allow attendance for individuals of any age. Family Attributes - If you have any family attributes set up, you can choose what should appear when editing family information. Those attribute values can be changed while editing the family.Family and Individual Header Lava Templates - You can edit this Lava to change what information about a person or family is displayed, or to change how the information is displayed. You probably won’t need to update this, but it’s an option if you’re familiar with Lava.Adult Phone Types - The phone types you select here will be made available for view or edit when editing an adult individual’s information.Adult Person Attributes - The selected attributes will be available when editing an adult’s person information.Show Communication Preference (Adults) - If this is set to “Yes” then the communication preference for adult individuals can be seen and changed when editing the individual’s information.Child Phone Types - The phone types you select here will be made available for view or edit when editing a child’s person information. Always use caution when adding phone numbers for children, and be sure you’re familiar with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) compliance standards.Child Person Attributes - The selected attributes will be available when editing a child’s person information.Child Allow Email Edit - If enabled, a child’s email address will be available for display and edit. Always use caution when adding email addresses for children, and be sure you’re familiar with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)compliance standards.Race - You can choose to collect a person's race, which describes their physical traits and characteristics.Ethnicity - You can also choose to collect a person's ethnicity, which is a cultural identifier. Note Types - Select which types of notes can be used. If multiple types are allowed, then the person entering attendance will choose which one to use. If nothing is selected, then the page cannot be used to enter notes.Enable Prayer Request Entry - You can choose to enable or disable prayer request entries on the page by changing this setting.Enabled Urgent Flag - Set whether the “Urgent” flag can be selected.Show Public Flag - Set whether the prayer request can be marked as “Public” from the page.Expires After (Days) - Set the number of days before the prayer request is expired.Default Category - You can optionally provide a default prayer category into which the request will be grouped. If category selection is not enabled (see below), then this will be the category into which all requests from this page will be grouped.Display to Public - If enabled, all requests will be set to “Public” by default. This can be changed for individual requests if the public flag is configured to be shown.Default Allow Comments - Set whether or not prayer requests entered here should allow comments.Enable Category Selection - This controls whether the person entering the prayer request can choose a category or change the default category if one has been configured.Workflow List Title - This allows you to create a custom title that appears above the available workflow types. You can change this to match the wording on a contact card.Workflow Types - Select one or more workflows that can be launched from the page. See details above.