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1. The DNCs are a hot topic and it would be a disadvantage to automatically notify the territory servant who then enters any DNCs since the majority of publisher have no idea what a DNC is. For example some have marked extensive No Soliciting descriptions as a DNC since it stated no Religion. A DNC is when the householder tells you directly face to face please Do Not Call at this door again. It creates additional work as now the Elders have to check in a year is this still a DNC. If there is an extensive No Soliciting sign you have to address the white elephant in the room FIRST. I have knocked on a door that was for 12 years listed as a DNC because no one did a follow up. After doing my introduction, come to find out the owner has lived there for 30 years and the DNC was not from him, and we had an excellent discussion starting with complaining about our HOAs. You have to educate the territory holders and the publishers of what a DNC is. If someone marks a door as a DNC while I am in the territory, I quiz them why do you say this is a DNC? Well the person answered the ring bell and said he doesn't want to be disturbed. How do you know he was not indisposed while being in the bathroom and used the first excuse that came to his mind. This whole DNC marking is a mega educational job. So don't take the publishers word for it when included in a returned territory find out why this was marked DNC. And don't get me even started on those that did telephone witnessing and marked houses as DNCs because they wanted to be taken of OUR list.

When I digitized our territories I came across the limitation of 300 addresses however, once I started entering the addresses it allowed me to surpass the threshold of 300 as some of the territories had new homes added and now exceeded 300. We have 3 territories out of 80 that exceed 300 with 310, 345 and 351. It allowed me to enter these as it would be an absolute pain to divide up the subdivision of those territories. I assume that the developers had the foresight to realize what if there are some additional houses in access of 300 to complete an area that is a subdivision let us give them some additional room to finish the digitizing of a specific territory. It is just a guess of mine but each territory most likely has an upper limit of total size including the map image, number of streets entries and this may also be a factor in when you reach the limit because I have reached the limit at 330 but was surprised to be able to get to 351. Finally a word of advice, once you finished the address entries export those address entries as a CSV file because if anything goes wrong in your NWS setup, you just import the CSV file and spare yourself the time consuming entry of addresses.

Excellent Good News, with the latest update of NWS the Satellite view of territories is working again. The best map service is the MapBox Satellite as the other map service ThinkGeo Satellite is not as clear and sharp, plus my first quick check shows in one territory finished homes in an undeveloped area. So, it looks like that an update for the ThinkGeo Satellite map service is needed. Thanks to the Devs for getting such a quick fix for the territory module.

Just installed the minor update this morning and I noticed that the Bing Satellite map as well as the Bing map dark was removed from the available map providers. That is a real concern as it basically makes the assigning of new addresses now more guess work as to where the residences are. I understand that there may be an additional expense for map services, but if at all make it an option to add for an additional fee the Bing Satellite map.

I could now add an address to the territory, but the Bing Satellite map is not displaying and you sort of have to guess where the home is. Does that have to do with any API or paid service for the satellite map to be displayed?

I updated to the latest version and everything is working as it is supposed to except when trying to add an address to a territory I get this error message and this has been for a few hours now. Request: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (429) Too Many Requests. at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult) at System.Net.WebClient.GetWebResponse(WebRequest request, IAsyncResult result) at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadBitsResponseCallback(IAsyncResult result) --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) at JW_Scheduler.Helpers.HelperMethods.<PerformReverseGeocodingQueryLocationIQAsync>d__83.MoveNext() Result: https://us1.locationiq.com/v1/reverse?key=pk.00eaaac3ec9aeda0701ef179d10ac280&lat=38.6257851145725&lon=-76.9406257339515&format=json

In the first comment on this page I quoted from the US Addendum where it says: "3. The body of elders may decide whether to retain Congregation’s Publisher Records (S-21) electronically or in printed form." So if you are in Europe or a country that has GDPR or Electronic Data Protection laws than your usage of personal information is governed by those laws. For example in the ministry in those countries you can't write down a person's contact details and pass this on to someone else. In addition, I believe that publishers have to give their consent to having a S-21 form kept on file. The conclusion is this you have to go by what the local laws are just as you go by the local customs and culture and as a result you have different instructions in different branches. That is why I said in the top comment, "Much easier in the USA" and that is from the USA addendum, which does not apply to other parts of the world.

Much easier in the USA sfla-E Us 10/23 Correspondence and Records 3. The body of elders may decide whether to retain Congregation’s Publisher Records (S-21) electronically or in printed form. 4. There is no objection to using online storage services for nonconfidential documents, such as those containing information that would be posted on the information board. However, information of a sensitive or confidential nature, including judicial matters, should never be stored online.

Did you ever find out if NWS works on the snapdragon plus /elite processors? I am contemplating getting the just announced Surface Pro 12 which has the snapdragon plus processor.

Didn't really know where to post this, but I am contemplating to get the new Microsoft Surface Pro 12 with the Snapdragon X Plus processor using Windows 11 Pro. Does anyone heard of any compatibility issues running NW Scheduler on these non Intel processor Surface Pro devices?

Yes all the other blue color arrows work it is just the memorial one. On the home page under events the memorial displays properly.

A HUGE request to the developers Is there any way that some houses can receive a special color selection for being available ONLY to the elderly and infirm? Let me explain. All the available homes in a territory have the color and can be worked, however some of the houses are not suitable for the elderly and infirm because of many steps or a steep walkway incline. I would like to mark some houses prior to our ministry in a different color than blue which signals these are ONLY to be worked by the elderly and infirm with using the normal status changes. I know I am able to use a work around by using one of the custom buttons and mark those houses as Infirm and then let the publishers work them as normal. However after completing the territory I would have to keep track of which ones were for the infirm. Surely this is a very common occurrence in the congregations where in some territories there are homes that can be easily accessed by the elderly and infirm and since the houses don't change it would be nice to keep track of them.

These are my screen shots using Samsung S21 and latest Android and NWP versions for the device. Schedules Page Clicking Blue Arrow

I have the latest versions just like you have and my home page looks like yours, but my Schedules page does have the entry: Saturday April 12, 2025 Memorial However when clicking the writing or the blue right arrow, than just a dark grey page displays and when clicking the back arrow on the bottom of my Samsung Android phone the following error message displays: Error Occurred: Null check operator used on a null value. Not a big deal as the home page display for the memorial works fine. Mind you though I updated an April 2 version from the play store.

I presume you will go from a map to Digital addresses. What I did is, I took one territory and created a portion of it as a test territory and digitized the addresses. Labeled it as number 999 and gave it the name Testing. Made it available to the whole congregation so that the publishers could experiment with it to their hearts delight, what it is like to change the status according to what happened at the address. You need this when the BofE decides to go with this method of working the territory. I am very sure they will agree as it is a game changer in every which way.