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4HPlus! Features   -   4HPlus Goto Program Menu Structure:
Goto Exit Main Members
Leaders Groups Camping Support Data
Re-Enrollment Archive Federal Utilities
Printer Information About    
The 'Goto' menu item is available in every section and is used to select any one of the remaining menu items

4HPlus! Program Menu Structure   -   Leader Menu Items:
Goto Registration Units (or Clubs) Projects
SQL Reports/Utilities    

Leader Menu Items   -   Registration
The registration section starts with the user choosing the following three items: Action (Review Existing Leader, Enter New Leader), Listing Method (By Name, By Id), and Active Status (Active, Inactive,Both). The system will remember your choices. Clicking a process button at this time will list all 4H Leaders based upon the users selections. Click on any listed Leader and his/her registration card will be displayed. This screen contains all of the fields one would expect plus a few special ones. Fields like City, Race, Residence, etc. will open and display lists that the user can select input from. Some of the special fields are: Email Address, Photo (you can store a photo of the member on the registration card), Notes (An open ended memo field that typed information specific to the member can be placed. This has no size limit). There are buttons for entering Clubs (or Units) (A parameter can be set for allowing between 1 and 12 clubs), Projects (A parameter can be set for allowing between 1 and 60 projects). The clubs and projects list are smart. If you enter a leader in either, the list box displaying the remaining clubs or projects will update to prevent duplications. From this screen you can get to the leaders Screening, Horse, History, Shooting Education. Prior or Next buttons will take you up or down quickly in the list of leaders. Clubs work like projects. The system is real time, the minute you sign up a leader for a project, if you list projects, the leader will be listed as one of leaders taking the project. The fields on the registration card are user definable and locatable so you can design your own registration card. The system keeps track of the last time a leader record was changed. This will be touched on elsewhere.

Leader Menu Items   -   Units (or Clubs)
Clicking the Units menu item will display a list of all active clubs. Members, Leaders, Clubs, and projects can all be flagged as inactive. The system save them in case there become active at some later time, but while inactive will not display or be part of any reports, etc. Click on one of the listed clubs and the system will display a list of all leaders in the club. If you then click on one of the listed leader, you will be taken directly to the leaders registration card. A listing or detailed report on the club is available at this time.

Leader Menu Items  -  Projects
The projects screen works as above plus several other features. There are five different project reports. Projects can be linked to clubs on an optional basis. And, again, any leader listed on this screen can have his/her registration card displayed by simply clicking on the leader in the list. You will find that anywhere in 4HPlus! a leader id is displayed, you can get to that leaders registration card by just clicking the id.

Leader Menu Items  -  SQL
SQL. This you have to see to believe! In short, you can via clicking buttons, ask the system for a Count, List, Labels, Report, or Mail Merge file generation for any question you can think of and sorted by any order. Lists generated on screen give you the same click on the leader id feature to call up the leaders registration card. If you request labels, you can chose from the entire set of Avery labels for printing. You can even 'gray' out missing labels so label sheets can be used over and over. Reports can be sent to screen or printer or file. Any SQL request you make is saved in a queue so if you want this same request at a latter time, the system will know exactly what and how to do it with one mouse click! Ok, so what is an example of something you could ask for? Print mailing labels (remove duplicates based on address) for all female leaders with more than four years of 4H leadership that live on a farm and are leading any one of the following three projects. Yes, you can do things like this with just a few mouse clicks.

Leader Menu Items  -  Reports/Utilities
There are several canned leader reports in addition to the SQL feature above. Alpha listing, Horse data, History data (the system supports a complete year to year history data set keeping track of member clubs, projects and completion thereof for every year the person is a member), Shooting Sports (the system supports a very versatile shooting sports section that understands many different areas. It tracks certifications etc.), Screening (the system supports a complete leader screening and certification system. If this feature is enabled, a leader will not display or be available for any assignments unless he/she is flagged as having passed screening. All screening data is only available to the state level user but is passed down to the county level user to control operations), Leader Training (you can track up to ten different training features for each leader), plus several other reports.