Tech Forum

The difference here would be a safety factor. If I am communicating with someone who has a Church login ID, there is much less chance that the "15 year old girl" is really a 50 year old child molester. Facebook has no real knowledge about who a person is -- the bishop does. While not perfe...

The last factory on earth which manufactured VHS record heads closed about a year ago, I am told. The company I was working for at the time had to spend millions of dollars to convert their video recording (surveillance) systems from VHS to digital. Neither the Church nor anybody else should be inve...

I missed most of the session. I was a bit late getting home, so I booted my computer using Ubuntu Linux, since it starts up so much faster than Windoze. Guess what? Firefox and Linux does not work, and no meaningful error message is given, no matter how many times I retry. Finally shut down and rebo...

This is a good idea. We often get "channelized" into only one way of thinking (set up a web site to...) and forget that there may be other answers. As the old saying goes: "if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." I already have the member's email ...

Can we make this a Feature Request for MLS? By the time the Stake President's report comes in, the information is getting pretty stale. Then I would have to hand-enter the data into a spreadsheet to make much use of it. It would be wonderful if each unit budget showed as a line item on the Stake bud...

Good point. As District Clerk I am both the technology specialist, and the acting clerk in a small branch who has not had a clerk for several years. I often print checks and authorize donation batches in that branch where I am not a member. I don't think using the position title as a user name is a ...

Hmmm. One wonders how they "verify" who the Bishop is. They can look up his name on the COI directory, but how do they know that the person on the phone is actually that individual? The Church has no information about the Bishop which I (as clerk) do not also have. I can say "my name ...

"Not Listed" means, basically, the member does not wish to have his number published. This is especially common to medical professionals, such as my Branch President. Perhaps "unknown" or "Needed" or "Please Supply" would serve better for what you have in mind...

You say "we have been asked" in passive voice. Someone did the asking. It is possible that the individual who did the asking failed to consider that it might place an undue burden on the secretaries or clerks in question. I am sure that the brother (or sister) had the best of outcomes in m...

That same Windows code "to send/receive information" needs to be reworked anyway. If I remember correctly, that code is the reason clerks must be logged in with administrator privileges. I would sleep more soundly if only I (the local "tech specialist") and the Church Staff knew ...