Syncing Attendance with F1
We sync group attendance with your FellowshipOne (F1) account.
How to Turn It On
As of April 7th, 2017, the attendance sync is toggled to ON for all new accounts in your F1 settings in the Add Ons area. If you have an account that was setup before that date, just head over to the Add Ons area and toggle the attendance sync to ON in your F1 settings window.
Things You Should Know
We always recommend that you choose either F1 or GroupVitals for your leaders to take attendance. We of course then prefer that you use GroupVitals for attendance taking for all its advantages. Because of this, GroupVitals only sends attendance data to F1. We do not pull attendance data from F1 into GroupVitals.
When toggled to ON, we sync all attendance taken in GroupVitals from that moment forward. Once attendance is taken for a group, that information is immediately sent to F1.
You can toggle the attendance sync to OFF at anytime. When you do, note that if you toggle it back ON at a later date, the attendance data recorded in GroupVitals while the attendance sync was OFF will not be sent to F1.
If an existing attendance record is updated in GroupVitals, those changes are immediately update in F1.
Like with groups and people, we are not able to delete an attendance record from F1 with their API. For this reason, if you have the attendance sync turned ON, we disable the ability to delete an attendance record in GroupVitals. If you need one deleted, just contact us and we'll do that for you.
If you decide to turn this feature ON after you have had groups take attendance, those past attendance records will not automatically sync over. If you'd like for that to happen, contact us and we'll manually push this data to F1 for you.
View Individual Attendance FellowshipOne
To see someone's personal attendance for a group that syncs with F1, head over to their profile in F1 and you'll see blue and red marks on a timeline under the heading "Involvement" representing each time they attend or miss a group meeting.
One the same page, click on the name of the group they are in and then click on the "Attendance" tab to see each date they attended and didn't attend their group.
FellowshipOne Attendance Reporting
We found that the best report to run in F1 is the report titled "*Core Attendance Totals Summary (v3.1)" M1300 v3.1. Be sure to select the group type(s) you sync with GroupVitals. Here's an example report setting:
