Not as of today.pdmarrow wrote:Has this been updated yet In LCR?
eblood66 wrote:You can view the transactions for a budget category using the Finance > Overview > Income and Expense Details and filtering by Category and Sub-Category. But there isn't a view that includes the budget allocation and % spent in LCR yet. You have to use the Budget Report in MLS for that still.
Woohoo! Thanks for pointing this out. There's some oddities with the old MLS budget system. Hopefully they are willing to make some improvements on this one.t0008sa wrote:Budget Reports can now be accessed / printed in LCR.
Hallelujah!
There seems to be a trend lately to roll out half-featured releases that don't have all the things necessary to make it useful. As someone that has managed programmers, I don't understand that approach.davesudweeks wrote:Our LCR version appears to match MLS. However, there is no way to assign the budget amounts yet in LCR. Also, the "Other: Member Authorized..." for camps, high adventure, etc. are not available on LCR yet (unless I'm missing something).
You can kind of get the Other::AFMA information using the Overview > Summary or Overview > Details. The biggest problem is that it lists donations by batch rather than by donor. You have to click through to each batch to see the specific donors. Hopefully they eventually make a report that shows donors directly.davesudweeks wrote:Our LCR version appears to match MLS. However, there is no way to assign the budget amounts yet in LCR. Also, the "Other: Member Authorized..." for camps, high adventure, etc. are not available on LCR yet (unless I'm missing something).
To me this looks more than useful enough to release. I generally only edit the budget amounts once a year so doing it in MLS is not a big problem. I generate budget reports for organizations monthly. Now I can generate them at home and email them out. In fact, just before this new report came out I had a new Relief Society presidency email me asking about their budget. I told them I'd have to wait until I could get to the church to run them a report. Then the next day this new version came out and I was able to generate the report and email it to them.chriswoodut wrote:There seems to be a trend lately to roll out half-featured releases that don't have all the things necessary to make it useful. As someone that has managed programmers, I don't understand that approach.
I totally agree that it's very very helpful to have access from home. I've had to tell people to wait too. I intend to send them out monthly but I don't remember to when I'm at the church so they don't get send out much as they should. It just seems strange to not do all the programming at once. Kicking the programming can down the road to edit the budget seems strange when the long term goal is to get rid of MLS.eblood66 wrote:To me this looks more than useful enough to release. I generally only edit the budget amounts once a year so doing it in MLS is not a big problem. I generate budget reports for organizations monthly. Now I can generate them at home and email them out. In fact, just before this new report came out I had a new Relief Society presidency email me asking about their budget. I told them I'd have to wait until I could get to the church to run them a report. Then the next day this new version came out and I was able to generate the report and email it to them.chriswoodut wrote:There seems to be a trend lately to roll out half-featured releases that don't have all the things necessary to make it useful. As someone that has managed programmers, I don't understand that approach.
I agree it is useful, but I have to edit the budget more often than annually (long story, don't need to get into that here - it isn't often enough that I can't do it at the church when I am there).eblood66 wrote:To me this looks more than useful enough to release. I generally only edit the budget amounts once a year so doing it in MLS is not a big problem. I generate budget reports for organizations monthly. Now I can generate them at home and email them out. In fact, just before this new report came out I had a new Relief Society presidency email me asking about their budget. I told them I'd have to wait until I could get to the church to run them a report. Then the next day this new version came out and I was able to generate the report and email it to them.chriswoodut wrote:There seems to be a trend lately to roll out half-featured releases that don't have all the things necessary to make it useful. As someone that has managed programmers, I don't understand that approach.
I just checked and the budgets for individual organization reports are still available. Is there a specific report you were looking for but did not find? Note that the Other:AMFA categories are not budget categories and are not yet available. To get those reports will require going into MLS.bayless wrote:Are the budget reports you send from LCR showing the balance still available? I don't see that when I look at individual organization budget reports. That's usually the item of greatest concern.
Yes it is showing assigned budget, spent, and remaining. I send them the detailed version of the report.bayless wrote:Are the budget reports you send from LCR showing the balance still available? I don't see that when I look at individual organization budget reports. That's usually the item of greatest concern.
You can get the Other:AMFA by going to:jdlessley wrote:I just checked and the budgets for individual organization reports are still available. Is there a specific report you were looking for but did not find? Note that the Other:AMFA categories are not budget categories and are not yet available. To get those reports will require going into MLS.bayless wrote:Are the budget reports you send from LCR showing the balance still available? I don't see that when I look at individual organization budget reports. That's usually the item of greatest concern.
Thanks for the tip! I looked and just noticed someone put an donation into an 'other' category that I suspect is wrong as that category hasn't been used forever. I'll clean that. Thanks for pointing this out since it is a bit buried. I had to click one more item to get to "income and expense summary".t0008sa wrote:You can get the Other:AMFA by going to:jdlessley wrote:I just checked and the budgets for individual organization reports are still available. Is there a specific report you were looking for but did not find? Note that the Other:AMFA categories are not budget categories and are not yet available. To get those reports will require going into MLS.bayless wrote:Are the budget reports you send from LCR showing the balance still available? I don't see that when I look at individual organization budget reports. That's usually the item of greatest concern.
LCR
Finance
Overview
Click on the Arrow in front of Other.
LCR > Finance > Overview > Income and Expense Details > category: Other > Authorized Member-Financed Activities > [unit subcategory]t0008sa wrote:You can get the Other:AMFA by going to:
LCR
Finance
Overview
Click on the Arrow in front of Other.
As a ward clerk in the USA, I see the same thing.BrianEdwards wrote:I'm a unit leader in the USA, and when I click "Budget", it defaults to the "Unit Leader / Clerk" menu option, and I see the three tabs drepouille describes. Selecting any of the other menu options, I then only see tabs for "Budget Summary" and "Payment Request". Not certain what others are seeing, but at least this is my current experience.
