Missionary Progress Report

I am very excited that as a Ward Mission Leader that I can now see the progress report from our ward's missionaries online. However, the current document is simply in alphabetical order, with no means to sort by most recent activity, by who is progressing, etc... On the missionary's iPads, they have it formatted very nicely for being able focus on the people who are progressing and need the most attention. Any chance that this formatting, or at least some mechanism for sorting can be added. It would save needing to scroll through several pages of names. Also, since our ward has two sets of missionaries, it would be helpful if there was a mechanisms to note which set of missionaries a new investigator is associated with.

Very excited to see this capability released.

Agree with needing sort capability on the fields; we have multiple sets of missionaries as well, so indicator would be helpful.

Additional features -- 1) date last synced, 2) pull in calling for recent converts, and 3) way to not pull in member's FULL name -- just Preferred Last (fellowshipper/VT/HT) -- would be useful as well.

Still waiting to see official notice on who can see this report; it's not part of the Access Table.

Also - ability to expand/collapse all lesson progress (either within section [investigator, new member] or across all individuals), so you don't have to expand each row one-by-one in order to save/print a copy of the record that shows the teaching progress.

We had heard that this feature was available to the Ward Council, but some of our WC members indicate they can't see it -- so our WML sends out via PDF.

jedci wrote:Still waiting to see official notice on who can see this report; it's not part of the Access Table.

The documentation does not appear to be updated regularly, so I don't know if/when the access table will have this information (I'm not sure if the access table is a "live" document that is generated from a database or a static document that someone has to update).

They're targeting a new version of Leader/Clerk resources to be available in late August. I'm guessing with that rollout that we'll see who has access to the report.

how do i show members in ward council how to use this? they said that they wanted us to show them how they can view it. thank you!

Not all units in the US will have the report, apparently, just learned that a mission president in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina sent the whole shipment of iPads he got back to Salt Lake. It is likely the method of entry of data into a dedicated app on the iPad itself how they will convey the progress reports to be updated and displayed in LCR.

Hey thats my area. I hadn't heard that

I just saw a description from a ward mission leader in St. George, he said that once the missionaries got iPads, and that was done very recently too in the Utah St. George Mission, all the ward mission leader has to do is log on to lds.org and go in to LCR, and see the progress record for each investigator the missionaries have in his unit, his description indicates that if they don't have iPads, the ward mission leader probably has to rely on the paper form once a week or in a few cases less frequently, or even the proverbial 'telephone tag' to find out what the missionaries may be in need of from the ward leaders in the unit or units they are assigned to.

All I can see is a blank PDF version of a progress report when I go to look at the link.

If it's on LCR you are seeing the blank form then my guess is 1. The system is not up and running quite yet, or 2. The missionaries haven't really started using the system yet either.

May go more live as soon as 3.0 is released. Based on a discussion here about the HT/VT functionality, that could be as early as this week.

Ok. Thanks

berluk13 wrote:All I can see is a blank PDF version of a progress report when I go to look at the link.

The electronic version of the Progress Record is available if the full-time missionaries in your Church unit are using Area Book Planner (found on their iPads). Otherwise, you will get a blank PDF copy of the form.

Our Missionaries recently got iPads about a month ago and they have been using the Area Book Planner. I've been a Ward Mission Leader for about 6 months when I login to lds.org the only thing I see is a blank PDF copy of the Progress Report. I've called into Local Unit Support and they said I should have access to the electronic version of the Progress Record tool. I mentioned the problem I was having and they said I would need to go to the website and post feedback about this problem. Is anyone else experiencing this issue or know of a fix?

Captain.Moroni wrote:Our Missionaries recently got iPads about a month ago and they have been using the Area Book Planner. I've been a Ward Mission Leader for about 6 months when I login to lds.org the only thing I see is a blank PDF copy of the Progress Report

Are the missionaries assigned to just your ward to to another ward as well? Somehow the system has to take the information entered by all the missionaries and get just the report for your ward routed to you. There might be some gaps.

For example (and I'm just guessing here) If a companionship is assigned to two wards - it's possible that the system may only allows them to be assigned to one ward. In that case, the ward without missionaries assigned to it will see nothing.

At any rate, I'd suggest talking to the mission to make sure the missionaries are properly entered and assigned and that their iPads are also configured for the correct area. Otherwise, information will not flow. The folks at CHQ probably have no idea what's going on at the local level. It's the mission's responsibility to take care of that.

There's another problem that could be going on here.

When missionaries get the iPads, they buy them for the most part at the time they enter the field now, or have since the first ones were deployed. Therefore, the missionaries keep their iPads, and it is possible the missionaries' assignments may not be synced with MLS/LCR right.

To see if this might be the case, go to Directory online, or open the app and look under 'Missionary'.

There could have also been snafus in association with transfers, and also with missionries being assigned to multiple units, that second one is particularly the case in Utah, where it's not one or two wards, but one or two stakes a set of missionaries might cover.

Captain.Moroni wrote:Our Missionaries recently got iPads about a month ago and they have been using the Area Book Planner. I've been a Ward Mission Leader for about 6 months when I login to lds.org the only thing I see is a blank PDF copy of the Progress Report. I've called into Local Unit Support and they said I should have access to the electronic version of the Progress Record tool. I mentioned the problem I was having and they said I would need to go to the website and post feedback about this problem. Is anyone else experiencing this issue or know of a fix?

Your stake was not enabled for the electronic Progress Record. Are you able to access it now?

That worked great! Thank you very much. Is this still in beta meaning like is it still be rolled out in areas in the U.S? Also is that feature enabled for all the Stakes in our Mission being the Arkansas Little Rock Mission? If not would you be able to enable it for us?

Thank you again for helping we have been trying to figure this out for weeks. : )

Captain.Moroni wrote:Is that feature enabled for all the Stakes in our Mission being the Arkansas Little Rock Mission?

Yes.

When I print a copy of the online Missionary Progress Report, it includes everything except the comments found in the "Help Needed" section. Is this a known glitch and are there any plans to fix this?

Does anyone know how we would give our ward "Assistant Ward Mission Leader" ( a custom calling) access to the Missionary Progress Report?

SteveRolandelli wrote:Does anyone know how we would give our ward "Assistant Ward Mission Leader" ( a custom calling) access to the Missionary Progress Report?

He will have to be placed in a standard position that grants access.

SteveRolandelli wrote:Does anyone know how we would give our ward "Assistant Ward Mission Leader" ( a custom calling) access to the Missionary Progress Report?

It can't be done. Custom callings never confer any permissions to restricted areas of LDS.org. Access to LCR is entirely calling-based (no leader can grant permissions to an individual). So your only reasonable option is for the Ward Mission Leader to access the MPR and share it with the assistant WML.