Donor Manager Software

Allow me to clarify: It would be nice to have the option to immediately goto a specific view when DM starts. (Not when Windows starts.) Other people might want to go to the "Support Development" view, or maybe some other page. For me, I usually (94% of the time) go straight to my Follow-ups when I o...

Yeah, I know what you mean. Would it be possible to have a link to a "parent" record, so that "child" records can be grouped under the parent? This would allow complex tree-like structures to be built. Of course, it would also introduce a ton of complexity to the programming and likely some confusio...

John,
I tried running the script commands. The second line ("alter table...") gives me an "Access Denied" message.

...oops...I had Donor Manager open.

Nevermind, it worked after I closed Donor Manager. AND, the field was increased. Rock on, man!

Yeah, I'm a proud daddy. But to be fair, here's another example:

http://tinyurl.com/2kg3na

I agree. However, in the meantime, try a TinyURL. The website http://tinyurl.com/ allows you to turn a very long web address into a very short (tiny) url. For example, the link to our family photo is: https://mail.jaars.org/~john-andrea_anderson@sil.org/pix/anderson_family.jpg But with TinyURL, it b...

I'm finding that often there is a different e-mail address for each member in a family. Sometimes, there are even different cell phone numbers. A couple ideas: Allow multiple "contact information" data per Partner. Allow multiple Partners to be arbitrarily grouped: Families, Small Groups, Churches, ...

I use Special Days to keep track of birthdays, anniversaries and the like. I also use Follow Up Reminders to keep track of up-coming events, scheduled phone calls, and other todo items. Could we have a single combined view/list of Special Days and Reminders? Could it be set to come up automatically ...

Misha,
Try taking these steps:

1. Install DM on the new computer.
2. Copy the files from the old computer onto your new computer. Especially important are the files in the "C:\DONOR5\data" folder.
3. Start DM and see if your old data is now available.

Have you tried marking the gifts via the Partner Information screen? In the "Giving History" tab, you will see a table of gifts. Unthanked gifts are highlighted as yellow. You can double-click a single month to mark it as Thanked. You can also double-click again to unmark it. NOTE: This method does ...

Here are the steps I've tried, to no avail: In DM, Reports > Envelopes > Click "Edit Envelope Template". In Word, highlight the <<ZIP>> field. Click menu item "Insert > Bookmark..." Type the name "ZIP" and click "Add". Click menu item "Insert > Field..." Select "Barcode" from the list. Select the "Z...

About #2, nevermind. I just linked to an off-site avatar. Worked great!

Couple ideas:

1. Could we have a separate forum for Forum-Related Posts?
2. Could you enable avatars? Might be fun.

This post is similar to the "Notes Problem" post. In general, sometimes data from one Partner record is shown/copied when you move to another partner record. The "Notes Problem" has been addressed sufficiently in that post, so I won't repeat it here. In the "Giving History" and "Giving Details" tabs...

Two small issues involving the MDI child window:

1. On 800x600 screen with multi-line taskbar, buttons on the bottom are partially obscured. (I know, I should get a better monitor.)
2. Really wish the MDI child window could be maximized within the MDI parent main window.

Any plans to make a way for other developers to extend DM? I'd love to write some plug-ins, if there's an established framework for that. (You could even have a gallery of plug-ins, like the Firefox browser.) If not, do you have any other programmers working on the source code with you? Any plans fo...