The checklists are predefined. They can't currently be customized.

What sort of things would you like to be able to add to the checklist?

The "Teams" field only appears in the admin, not on the public registration form. Parents will never see it. It is one of the methods available for you to assign or reassign students and volunteers to teams from within the admin.

You can customize the registration forms from the settings section, accessible from the settings link at the bottom of the left menu. The "Teams" field is automatically added when working with volunteers and students in the admin, so it can't be changed in the settings.

The system is not designed to function with no teams. You'll want to put at least one team back in, or you will likely run into errors with some functions of Director. The next software update, tentatively scheduled to happen in a few weeks, will prevent users from deleting all the teams, age groups, or rotation settings.

That's not something that can currently be customized.

What changes would you like to be able to make?

It appears if you make an combined field, like address, required, it makes every sub-field required. I see that's going to be a problem. We'll look into what we can do to correct that.

If you need to open registration quickly, you can either make the entire address optional, or replace it with individual fields. As long as no one has registered yet, you can delete that Address field, and replace it with separate "simple text" fields for street 1, street 2, city, state and zip.

Our system doesn't use the address for anything, it is only saved in the roster for your reference. So, removing the default address and replacing it with individual fields shouldn't cause any problems. The combined field is just intended to simplify creating and reordering forms.

I'll provide an update when I have an idea of when we expect to be able to get a fix in place for the combined address field.

There are two issues here.

The field supports up to 5000 characters, which should be sufficient. However, the editor isn't resizing to fit the content, so on a longer message you will only be able to access the top portion. I have alerted the developer and we'll work on getting that fixed.

Until we get that fixed, your best bet is probably to create your content in a text editor or word processor and past it in. If you run into trouble doing that, let us know and we can change your content for you until we get things fixed.

The other issue is formating. Currently, we only support bold, italic, and new lines. We'll discuss the possibility of supporting more formatting, such as bulleted lists. For now, the closest you can get to what you want would be something like this:

Thank you for registering for Operation Arctic VBS with University City Church! We are excited to spend a week of fun together with your family as we dig deep into God's Word and discover His incredible love- before you arrive at Operation Arctic, please be sure to complete all of the items below:

Pay registration fee and any other additional fees (Drop off or mail check to University City Church by May 19- include VBS 2017 in the memo)

That is not something we currently support. I've passed the suggestion on to the team for consideration.

This fix did not affect the roster. This issue was related to the allergy and medical information not appearing when editing students. Even if they had that data, the boxes appeared unchecked, and the details were hidden. That has now been corrected.

The roster issue is still open. Our design team has an open task to get that corrected before we end the beta test in early April.

Thanks for letting us know. I'm not sure whether or not that is intended to appear on desktop browsers. I think it may be intended for mobile devices only. In any case, it is appearing but not working on desktop browsers, so something is wrong. I've notified the designers to look into it.

Our next scheduled update is still a few weeks away, but as this is a fairly important feature, we got approval to do an out-of-cycle patch for this problem. It should now be fixed. If things still aren't looking right, let us know.

That is a feature we have discussed, but we have not implemented it and it is unlikely that it will be available this first year. You can print out rosters for tracking attendance on paper, but there is no attendance tracking built into the software.

More information from you or anyone else interested in this type of feature would help in our planning. Any thoughts about what you'd like to see and how it should work would be helpful.

Below are some of our thoughts and questions.

Would this be just attendance tracking, or a full check-in system? (A full check-in system with claim tickets, bar codes, etc would obviously be a major endeavor.) We assume most churches already have some form of check-in system for their children's ministry, so we're unsure that a separate VBS system would be that useful.

Also, many churches use some type of Church Management Software for record keeping. Would it make sense for us to be able to integrate Director with a church's CMS to upload data? If we do integrate with a CMS, would we track attendance in Director, or would we just sync up the student data so it can be tracked in the CMS? (What CMS software is common, and is any sort of integration even possible?)

We can envision a system where VBS workers--either at a check-in station or individual team leaders--could use any internet connected device to mark who is present. Obviously any time we're providing access to any student data security is a major concern. So careful thought will be required to ensure only authorized people have access, and only to the data they need.