Tuesday, 26 September 2017

Updating girls records on the new GO

It is worth noting that unless the individual girl's record has emergency contact details added any changes will not be accepted on GO. The error message isn't very helpful - it does tell you to complete the missing address fields, but omits to mention its referring to the fields for the emergency contact!

After logging in and out a few times my length of service & years in guiding have been filled in, and I noticed this evening that all my roles over 32 years have now been added. I was sad to see last week that my history was missing. I had printed my roles off from my old Go! record, so I had a paper record to refer too for posterity.

It is faster to add & update records and to save to excel to create registers. I adore the new starting section leaflets which has been updated, but is now out of sync with the one on the GG UK website. However you can fill in unit details and save for future use so a step forward. Adding a new "daughter" is easy, but when you transfer a brownie to guides you do get a message back to say successful but it looks like the girl is still on your unit. Maybe a bit more work needed.

The bug page, as I discovered, isn't very comprehensive but overall I would say a 100% improvement over what we have been using. Hopefully the momentum for improvement will continue now its finally started.


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