Running Attendance Reports for Primary Presidency

The primary presidency in one of our wards would like to view an attendance report, either by class, or across all of the primary, to be able to see who is not attending so they can reach out to them. I tried going into the attendance report and printing it out, but you can only see 5 weeks at a time. You can navigate back in time using some arrow keys on the screen; but, no matter what 5-week date range I navigate to, when I press the "Print" button, it prints out the latest 5 weeks. For example, I use the arrow keys to go back to see the attendance in July, press "Print", and it brings up Oct 24 - Nov 21. (It's Nov 14, so the last week is useless.)

Ideally, we would love to print out an entire quarter, or some custom date range, but, even if we had to print it out 5 weeks at a time, that could work. However, only being able to print out the last four weeks, plus the upcoming week, makes it impossible to give them a report of anything but the last 4 weeks. Any idea how we can generate a report that will print primary attendance for a particular date range?

Thanks!

bljedwards wrote: Sun Nov 14, 2021 8:28 pm The primary presidency in one of our wards would like to view an attendance report, either by class, or across all of the primary, to be able to see who is not attending so they can reach out to them.

The primary presidency members have access to view the online report and get the data they need from that report to see the attendance trends. The report can be for the entire primary or by class. They can scroll backward to see the trends.

bljedwards wrote: Sun Nov 14, 2021 8:28 pm Ideally, we would love to print out an entire quarter, or some custom date range, but, even if we had to print it out 5 weeks at a time, that could work. However, only being able to print out the last four weeks, plus the upcoming week, makes it impossible to give them a report of anything but the last 4 weeks. Any idea how we can generate a report that will print primary attendance for a particular date range?

That is not possible with the current print capability. Any added features to the print capability would have to be requested by sending feedback using the link at the bottom of the web page or by sending the perceived need up through the priesthood chain.

The problem is that the primary presidency is not technical and is unable to figure out how to use LCR so they asked the ward clerk to help them by printing out the attendance report. The ward clerk wasn't able to make the print option work so he contacted me.

I submitted the bug through the submit feedback link on the page.

Is there any other way to access this information so it can be put into a report for the primary president? Again, what they are trying to see is a 3-month or 6-month trend and they are confused and uncomfortable with LCR.

bljedwards wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 5:34 pm The problem is that the primary presidency is not technical and is unable to figure out how to use LCR so they asked the ward clerk to help them by printing out the attendance report. The ward clerk wasn't able to make the print option work so he contacted me.

I submitted the bug through the submit feedback link on the page.

Is there any other way to access this information so it can be put into a report for the primary president? Again, what they are trying to see is a 3-month or 6-month trend and they are confused and uncomfortable with LCR.

Other than extracting the data manually and putting it into a some type of graph, spreadsheet or other visual representation, there is no way to do it within LCR or MLS.

Prior to things being online, I expect a Primary Presidency would have simply looked at the printed rolls for the past months/quarter/etc. Since Primary teachers aren't able to enter attendance online themselves, I'd imagine there's still some kind of printed rolls that teachers are filling out weekly, which then somebody (Primary Secretary?) enters online. Could those printed rolls be sufficient to determine which children haven't attended over the period of time? And for leaders who aren't comfortable with the tech aspect, this might actually be preferable.