Donor Manager Software

For your info, John, I've had the same problem for some time now with DM on Windows XP Pro (so it's not Vista). I have DM installed in the default location (C:\donor5). I've tried the set of FoxPro commands you gave above, and am sorry to say they made no difference for me either. Well, you said you...

I think I've found the solution: DON'T USE THE "FORWARD" OR "BACK" BUTTONS at the bottom left of the "Details" screen! These are what propagate the current "Notes" to whichever adjacent record you're moving to. If you press the "Forward" button (the music-player-type right arrow), the current "Notes...

This is something I found useful in a program I used for my address database many moons ago. (Wycliffe folk would know it -- Shoebox.) The program provided a field in each record that automatically recorded the last date on which it was edited. I found this extremely helpful especially in older reco...

Yep, I've just been having the same problem. I've found it happens if I either double-click on a word (bringing up the edit screen), or if I select the entire contents of the Notes field -- even if I do nothing other than that! Just select, deselect, and the current Notes field is propagated to the ...

OK, now I see what you mean. You said "The prefix that you put in will be separate," and I thought you were implying that in the phone field you'd only enter the basic number with NO prefixes. But, yes, if the prefix is always the same it would be easiest to have that in the phone field. So normally...

When you say "the program will remember it from call to call and session to session", do you mean that it will remember the prefix for each specific number? I.e., it will know that the number 218984 in the entry for J. Smith always has the prefix 01844?? That would be great!

-- Steve

In the program I have that uses this feature, it simply dials whatever you enter in the phone field. I mean, it would be great if the program automatically detected that this was a South African address and prefixed the appropriate international and country code... but I feel some of the work could ...

I'm relieved at your positive reaction, John :D ! I was afraid this might go beyond what you intended for the program. But certainly for me, with four Wycliffe statements per month and quite a few regular direct gifts, the possibility of setting up standing orders would be a great help. Blessings, -...

Hi again John, This is more of a question than a firm suggestion: I notice that the only type of automatic entry of donors' contributions is by 'reading' an electronic financial statement. I'm very grateful that you're working on the Wycliffe UK statements, which will be a great help for me in that ...

Another thought that occurred to me, is that you often have natural links between different entries in the partner database. You've already provided a link for partners from the same supporting church; but there are many other links, for instance I usually have separate entries for a church and its ...

Hi John, As I've been working in the program recently a number of things have occurred to me. One is that I have an address organizer program that allows me to click a button to send an email or to access a web address, like DM, though it doesn't have the very nice DM 'Map' button. But it does have ...

For us non-US folks, the mapping options available at present (Yahoo and Mapquest) are not too helpful. With a bit of fiddling and manual filling of fields I managed to get a UK map with Mapquest; but it didn't come just by clicking that option. If we were given the opportunity to enter our own URL ...

Hi John, This is a small thing that I've noticed while entering my data into DM -- I wonder whether it would be an easy addition in a future update? We have partners and supporters in 7 countries (which I think is not too unusual in Wycliffe UK and other European Wycliffe organisations). It would ma...

Hi John, I'm very new to DM, but I've been having a consistent problem whenever I try to do a quick backup (and sometimes just when closing it). It says, "object oapp is not found" / Line: 38 / Module: dmmain. Sometimes the Ignore option works, but quite often I have to close and reopen DM before I ...