NW Scheduler/Publisher - Updates, Support, and Suggestions

[Micheli]

14 hours ago, computerwiz said:

 

The management of territories (checking in/out, adding, changing, etc.) must be done on a Windows PC.  The only thing you can do on a phone or tablet is view the territories you've been assigned & check them in when you are finished.

Thank you Jeremy for your prompt and clear answer. We hope this can be done in the future. 

[Micheli]

9 hours ago, jwhess said:

It also depends on the rank or level of the software you have purchased.  The 'Silver' level and  lower do not have territory ability.  You need the 'Gold' level app.

Thank you John, yes, we have gold level.

[Micheli]

13 hours ago, Cruzer said:

 

What some of us have done & what I've done as our congregation's territory servant is, use a remote desktop software to remote back into my Windows system while I'm away from home. I've been using TeamViewer but know others have used Chrome Remote Desktop & other similar software.

Thank you Joss, I will give a try to this interesting solution. 

[jayrtom]

On 9/18/2024 at 9:49 AM, Tonis said:

Hello everyone, is there a way to schedule the visits of the service overseer to the field service groups in the NW Scheduler?

Since the below option can only be done to appear as an announcement for the respective group, in the NWP app, what I did was a task on the cleaning schedule (because we can select Groups there) and it then appears on the monthly congregation activities to be posted on the information board

 

 

 

On 9/18/2024 at 10:15 AM, molnarj said:

You can find it under Congregation Events. Select a specific group below.

 

 

[jayrtom]

Since we need to put the schedule on the information board, I find the available templates very limited...
I was tinkering with it and resolved to make a program to get the information from the several pages of the weekly schedule and put it on a single A3 sheet
to get the weekly schedule, field service and public witnessing i have to print 2 different schedules from the program
Now I found out that the public witnessing print, except the one week per page template, don't consider the last week when it is in the nex month, like this month for example, where the last week goes to october
To get the October data i have to print yet another sheet, or use the one week per page template that is 5 sheets more 

How do you do it to get all the information gathered?

[DarinS]

Following up on someone’s post about Maintenance / LDC

 

who is using NWS/MWPub for maintenance tasks 

how are you liking it

what were the gotchas

was it easy to setup?

are you using for single congregation

how are you using when 2 or more cong meet at same hall

 

Thanks

 

Just getting into evaluating it for our use

[jayrtom]

Anybody knows the meaning of this symbol? (It gives an error after clicking on it)

 

[Tonis]

I think, it's the sign for a foreign language group. 

[Tortuga]

1 hour ago, jayrtom said:

Anybody knows the meaning of this symbol? (It gives an error after clicking on it)

 

I am not familiar with that symbol. When you look at the schedule for that week, is the symbol used in the schedule? 

 

It looks like a Language symbol, is there something in the schedule for those weeks that didn't translate correctly?

Edited September 20 by Tortuga

[Tortuga]

3 hours ago, Tonis said:

I think, it's the sign for a foreign language group. 

That makes sense, there may be a foreign language group assigned for Hall Care

[jayrtom]

4 hours ago, Tortuga said:

I am not familiar with that symbol. When you look at the schedule for that week, is the symbol used in the schedule? 

 

It looks like a Language symbol, is there something in the schedule for those weeks that didn't translate correctly?

Indeed it looks like a language symbol but we don't have any language group and I don't see anything unusual on the NWS schedule...
when I try to see that week on NWP it just gives a gray screen

[JJWest]

9 hours ago, jayrtom said:

Indeed it looks like a language symbol but we don't have any language group and I don't see anything unusual on the NWS schedule...
when I try to see that week on NWP it just gives a gray screen

This happens sometimes, some type of glitch I guess. Open up the week(s) with the problem and just change one thing, such as the assigned speaker, then put the correct speaker back and submit the change and it should clear up. 

[jayrtom]

5 hours ago, JJWest said:

This happens sometimes, some type of glitch I guess. Open up the week(s) with the problem and just change one thing, such as the assigned speaker, then put the correct speaker back and submit the change and it should clear up. 

Thanks John!

 

I reported it to them

[Pastore72]

Good morning to all dear brothers, for some days when parts are assigned, a notification appears on the cell phones with the word disfellowshipped, does it happen to you too? I'm posting a screenshot of what arrives to all the brothers. A big hug to everyone.

[Tonis]

We are currently preparing the schedule for the circuit overseer's visit. As part of the plan, we have included shepherding visits, which unfortunately are not visible in the report for the COBE. Could this be a bug?

[luisenriquereyes]

NW Scheduler 7.6 Major Update

Release Notes

UPDATES

CONGREGATION SHARING 

• Added Quick Step “Send Invitation Email to selected Shared Person”.
• Can now Restore Shared Persons from Automatic Backup.
• Warnings are shown if more than 3 people have Edit User Access to something.
• Both Major and Minor Versions are shown on Shared Persons.

CIRCUITS, CONGREGATIONS & PUBLIC SPEAKERS

• The Edit Circuits view has a new Disable Circuit button. This can be used if “Guest” Congregations or Circuits have been synced to your congregation from Public Speaker Sharing, but you don’t want to see them in your Circuits view.

TERRITORIES

• Territory Labels can now have an outline color, and change rotation angle.
• Each Territory Label can now have its own size, color and angle.
• Saving Map now adds extra options to customize how the map looks.

NW Publisher App (*version 3.5.0 and greater*)

• You can now select different Map Providers for NW Publisher app, including Google Maps. See Territory Settings.

UPDATED TEMPLATES

• Territory Cards now include Status Date
• Territory Addresses printing can optionally include “Show State/Province”
• Duties Schedule can now optionally "Show Day of week" (for Schedule by Meeting duties)

BUG FIXES

• Bug fixes are usually released in Minor Updates. If you have a problem or bug, please click Me > Updates > Check for Updates and install the latest Minor Update. Even if you don't experience any problems, we recommend installing the latest Minor Update at least once a month.

[molnarj]

FUTURE: We are currently working on greatly enhancing and improving Public Speaker Sharing, as well as another exciting project that should be released in the next few months.

[carlos]

On 9/23/2024 at 12:21 AM, Pastore72 said:

Good morning to all dear brothers, for some days when parts are assigned, a notification appears on the cell phones with the word disfellowshipped, does it happen to you too? I'm posting a screenshot of what arrives to all the brothers. A big hug to everyone.

 

Alessandro, it seems that talk was assigned to a publisher and now it's assigned to a different one. The text was wrongly translated in Italian as disassociato when actually it means the assignment has been deleted. 

 

There is an option on the NW Scheduler Contact Page to suggest an improved translation.

[Manwithnoname]

On 9/19/2024 at 11:40 PM, DarinS said:

Following up on someone’s post about Maintenance / LDC

 

who is using NWS/MWPub for maintenance tasks 

how are you liking it

what were the gotchas

was it easy to setup?

are you using for single congregation

how are you using when 2 or more cong meet at same hall

 

Thanks

 

Just getting into evaluating it for our use

So we are using it alongside our previous way of working ( using a WhatsApp group for coordination) while we decide whether to use it as our primary means of maintenance tasks organisation.

It's worked fine, sends alerts and notifications in a similar way to hall cleaning etc.

The documentation can be attached electronically and you can share tasks to users and groups in another congregation.

Only issue we have is it doesn't allow the choice of assigning weekly tasks, eg fire alarm testing.

[Aja]

We have a brother that tells me he is fully updated and connected and yet he shows as running an old version and not having connected for 110 days. Any idea what's happening here and how to fix it?

[Sooner Guy 89]

2 minutes ago, Aja said:

We have a brother that tells me he is fully updated and connected and yet he shows as running an old version and not having connected for 110 days. Any idea what's happening here and how to fix it?

 

We had this happen last year. I removed him from the 'Share Person' option. He had to start over with his login.  A little bit of a pain but it resolved it for him.

[foghorn]

Maybe a possible starting point - have you tried App Persons/Refresh Persons and App Devices/Refresh Devices?

[Tortuga]

I wish the NWP app would show a warning when someone uses the app to submit an Away Period that conflicts with a scheduled Assignment or Duty. Just a simple warning message that reminds them there is a conflict and they need to contact the brother that does the schedules.

[jayrtom]

We are having a problem on multiple phones (but not all) where the tasks and appointments present in the respective tabs (1 and 2 on the image) are not the same as the one present on the tab 1

 

But what is on the tab 1 is the correct version according to what is present on the pc

 

All of us have the apps updated

[Tonis]

We have the problem that in the NW Scheduler, the past hospitality data is deleted by the program. Is this a in general the case, or is it a bug? Because as it stands, it is not possible for the public talk coordinator to see who invited the speaker in the past.