Missionary AreaBook App

Could someone please give some information on this AreaBook App the missionaries have on their iPad mini's? At least someone we can speak with to learn about beta testing?
I understand it has only been a few select areas that have received iPad mini's but now that they are suppose to go to nearly all USA, Canada, Japan, and Western Europe missions, I would think a developer community would be good to include on this. Not to mention the uses this app has for the local leadership of every ward. Thank you anyone for your input or direction to the folks in charge.

Happy to answer your questions.

Dale Richards
Senior Product Manager, Proselyting Applications
801.240.3954

dwrichy wrote:Happy to answer your questions.

I assume you provided your contact information so the OP can contact you off line or outside the forum. Others may want to see this dialogue to become better informed. Please continue the dialogue in the forum so others can benefit - unless, of course there is information the general public should not know.

jdlessley wrote:

dwrichy wrote:Happy to answer your questions.

I assume you provided your contact information so the OP can contact you off line or outside the forum. Others may want to see this dialogue to become better informed. Please continue the dialogue in the forum so others can benefit - unless, of course there is information the general public should not know.

Are the apps available on the iTunes store? If not, is there a way to see screenshots? I'm really interested in the development.

When is it available ??????

This page is run by missionaries who use iPads, I think – if you have specific questions, you can ask them there:
https://www.facebook.com/missionipads
I've had one of my questions answered through the page, about whether the LDS Music app is on missionary iPads (it is).

The Area Book app is currently being used by missionaries, but I don't think it will be made available publicly (i.e. on the App Store); or, if it is, it will be dependent on you having a missionary-related calling.

I linked to a few screenshots of the Area Book app in this thread:
https://tech.lds.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=18513

It would be good to havethe missionary area book app.

What about area book planner app.

I haven't seen the Area planner app, but I do have a door to door mapping app that can be used if needed.

Right now, we are in process of transfers and we have a problem organizing one of the zones in our mission. We have a companionship that we are trying to reassign to a new zone, but is not working properly because the information can not be seen by the area leaders area leaders (bishop, stake president) in the area. In spite of that the mission leaders (zone leaders, district leader) can see it. The problem can be happening because the area of the companionship is part of a different district by church organization.
I wonder if you know how to help me figure it out...

I don't really know how the system works for transferring missionaries, but are you talking about ward and stake leaders being able to see the missionaries in LDS Tools and the LDS.org Directory? I wonder if a missionary's membership privacy settings come into play at all.

felipedds wrote:The problem can be happening because the area of the companionship is part of a different district by church organization.

Can you explain this a little more? That sounds like an issue.

felipedds wrote:The problem can be happening because the area of the companionship is part of a different district by church organization.

It sounds as if the zone is not assigned to the proper district. Are you able to change that at the mission office, or do you need to ask your Facilities Management Group or your Area Office to put the zone in the proper district? I believe that will solve the visibility problem for the companionship.

Actually, I suspect the zone hasn't been assigned to the proper wards. That's why the Bishops and Stake Presidents can see it - the system doesn't know that their unit(s) belong to that zone.

I have been searching for a file directory on online areabook. I am a missionary and am building a script that will check the investigators of every area and check if any of them have not been reported as baptized, when they have been reported in our weekly reports. I seem to be stuck at finding the right url to call in order to pull up another areas list of investigators. Does anyone know of a file path or another way to pull this information. I have user rights to access. Thanks!

My son is a new missionary in Mexico and his trainer doesn’t know how to use the areabook app. The trainer is a great guy but is extremely disorganized and my son wants to use areabook to become more organizer and effective. He’s having trouble because the app is in Spanish and he doesn’t know the language well enough yet. Is there a way for him to change the language to English temporarily?

benfobert wrote:My son is a new missionary in Mexico and his trainer doesn’t know how to use the areabook app. The trainer is a great guy but is extremely disorganized and my son wants to use areabook to become more organizer and effective. He’s having trouble because the app is in Spanish and he doesn’t know the language well enough yet. Is there a way for him to change the language to English temporarily?

What language is his device in? I don't know about the Area Book app specifically, but most mobile apps show UI strings – buttons, titles, menus, etc. – in the language of the device. So, he may be able to switch his device language to English.

I have currently seen several problems with the Area Book of different areas. For example the error appears when trying to syncronize the information. The error is ¨no se puede verificar si hay un traslado¨ Weve had this problem for several days now.