Stake Conference sustaining of leadership...

cdawardclerk wrote:As our Ward clerk am I to supply our Stake a document detailing our leadership postions prior to Stake Conference? I seem to remember a form in MLS that states the leadership callings of our ward. Is this form for Ward Conference only? Thank you for your help.

The "Officers Sustained--Ward" form is used only for ward conference. For stake conference, the stake will generate its own "Officers Sustained--Stake" form from MLS. The stake does not need any information from the individual wards to fill out this form.

Thank you Alan. I really appreciate your help!

Alan_Brown wrote:The "Officers Sustained--Ward" form is used only for ward conference. For stake conference, the stake will generate its own "Officers Sustained--Stake" form from MLS. The stake does not need any information from the individual wards to fill out this form.

For some reason (maybe a senior moment) I cannot find the form you are mentioning. I know about a month or so ago I must have stumbled on it because it was right before my eyes. Yesterday, while in MLS, I tried seemingly every link but could not find it. Could you please help me find the 'Officers Sustained' form in MLS?

Also, who is responsible for reading the names for sustaining? The Bishop?

cdawardclerk wrote: Also, who is responsible for reading the names for sustaining? The Bishop?

I don't know specifically what the policy is on this, but do know that it has always been one of the stake president's counselors that has done it in our ward conferences.

cdawardclerk wrote:For some reason (maybe a senior moment) I cannot find the form you are mentioning. I know about a month or so ago I must have stumbled on it because it was right before my eyes. Yesterday, while in MLS, I tried seemingly every link but could not find it. Could you please help me find the 'Officers Sustained' form in MLS?

The form is in MLS under Reports/Forms, Print Form. Then pick "Officers Sustained-Ward" from the list.

And here's a hint for finding things: Use the MLS Help system. If you go to Help, and use the Search function, and search for "Sustain", you'll find the information you were looking for.

cdawardclerk wrote:Also, who is responsible for reading the names for sustaining? The Bishop?

If you look on the form, you'll find the answer: "A member of the stake presidency or an assigned high councilor is to present the full names of officers for sustaining."

Alan_Brown wrote:The form is in MLS under Reports/Forms, Print Form. Then pick "Officers Sustained-Ward" from the list.

And here's a hint for finding things: Use the MLS Help system. If you go to Help, and use the Search function, and search for "Sustain", you'll find the information you were looking for.

Thank you...it would be nice if this form and maybe others were listed in a drop-down menu under 'Reports/Forms' so as not to be so obscure. Just a thought...

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cdawardclerk wrote:Thank you...it would be nice if this form and maybe others were listed in a drop-down menu under 'Reports/Forms' so as not to be so obscure. Just a thought...

The reason (I believe) for not listing the form under a menu has to do
code maintaince and quicker patching. In an older version of MLS there
was an actual directory where all the forms were kept and with the
right knowhow you could actually put in your own forms (I was working
on an Administrative action form right before the church released the
official one). Now the forms are kept in a data file seperate from the
core java code. The idea is that when a form changes, particularly
the sustainings forms that change when a new apostle is called, they
can send the much smaller data file with the new forms down the wire
without having to rebuild the large java code file (which includes the menu subroutine).
It makes updates of forms over dialup connections much more tolerable.
Finding where things are in MLS is always an adventure thanks to such
tradeoffs that are made like these.

- Atticus Ewig

atticusewig wrote:The reason (I believe) for not listing the form under a menu has to do
code maintaince and quicker patching. In an older version of MLS there
was an actual directory where all the forms were kept and with the
right knowhow you could actually put in your own forms (I was working
on an Administrative action form right before the church released the
official one). Now the forms are kept in a data file seperate from the
core java code. The idea is that when a form changes, particularly
the sustainings forms that change when a new apostle is called, they
can send the much smaller data file with the new forms down the wire
without having to rebuild the large java code file (which includes the menu subroutine).
It makes updates of forms over dialup connections much more tolerable.
Finding where things are in MLS is always an adventure thanks to such
tradeoffs that are made like these.

- Atticus Ewig

Thanks Atticas...for the info. I sometimes feel I'm on a treasure hunt when in MLS!