Add building info to LDS Tools
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Add building info to LDS Tools
With the demise of ward websites it's quite time consuming just to find a ward's meeting times and other basic ward information. How about adding the meeting times, building address, phone number, etc., into LDSTools?
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Re: LDS Tools Feedback
The times can be found in maps.lds.org.proudfit wrote:With the demise of ward websites it's quite time consuming just to find a ward's meeting times and other basic ward information.
LDS Tools typically only gives information about the ward and stake one belongs to and would not be useful when traveling.
Have you searched the Help Center? Try doing a Google search and adding "site:churchofjesuschrist.org/help" to the search criteria.
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Thanks and maybe I was misleading, but this has nothing to do with traveling. I'm concerned about the 20 wards between my home stake and the YSA stake I serve in. One building I work in has 8 wards by itself and I am continually being asked by visitors about times for various wards. Asking them to wait while I open maps and do a search - especially on a phone - is burdensome. In addition, maybe your area is better, but the information in maps is often wrong and/or misleading. Don't know if that's on us or Google, but it has sent me on wild goose chases many times.
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Re: LDS Tools Feedback
If you're looking in maps.lds.org, Google has nothing to do with it. It most likely means the wards have not updated their meeting times in MLS. That same information is used other places, so if it's wrong in maps, it's wrong everywhere else - including LDS Tools when and if that capability is put in.proudfit wrote:but the information in maps is often wrong and/or misleading. Don't know if that's on us or Google, but it has sent me on wild goose chases many times.
Have you searched the Help Center? Try doing a Google search and adding "site:churchofjesuschrist.org/help" to the search criteria.
So we can better help you, please edit your Profile to include your general location.
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Re: LDS Tools Feedback
For LDS Tools for iOS, sometime in the next few weeks.russellhltn wrote:if it's wrong in maps, it's wrong everywhere else - including LDS Tools when and if that capability is put in.
If it's a Provo YSA ward, good luck finding the correct meeting locations on LDS.org. We're trying to get those fixed in our stake but we need to go through the FM group. Many of the Provo wards just say they meet on "BYU Campus." In the meantime, you can get a schedule of the wards from the stake clerks...proudfit wrote:I'm concerned about the 20 wards between my home stake and the YSA stake I serve in. One building I work in has 8 wards by itself and I am continually being asked by visitors about times for various wards. ... [T]he information in maps is often wrong and/or misleading.
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Re: LDS Tools Feedback
Proudfit, the updated lds tools app will do what you ask. On my android phone In the meetinghouse locator I typed in the name of a ward that isn't even in my stake. (I wanted to attend a friends missionary homecoming) The app showed me the location, meeting block start time and sacrament mtg start time, bishops contact info and building contact info. Full disclosure: I am an Elders Quorum President so perhaps that function, like others, comes with my calling, but if so that's a glitch that should be fixed.
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Re: LDS Tools Feedback
This is still dependent on clerks updating mlsdorantm wrote:Proudfit, the updated lds tools app will do what you ask. On my android phone In the meetinghouse locator I typed in the name of a ward that isn't even in my stake. (I wanted to attend a friends missionary homecoming) The app showed me the location, meeting block start time and sacrament mtg start time, bishops contact info and building contact info. Full disclosure: I am an Elders Quorum President so perhaps that function, like others, comes with my calling, but if so that's a glitch that should be fixed.
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