Distance and Drive Time
Review requirements, setup, details, and additional resources for CloudService Distance and Drive Time utilities.
This utility calculates the number of miles and minutes from a household's address to their congregation's address. Two fields in the Household record (Driving Distance and Driving Time) are populated automatically. You can also use these to pull a list of households within a certain number of miles of their campus or a certain number of minutes of drive time.
Initial Setup and Requirements
ACS Technologies must install and enable this utility. Contact Support to request this.
Congregations must have a specified Location (with an address) in order for the routine to compare them with household addresses. It is beneficial to geocode these manually at the outset. You can use the Map My Selection Tool for this.
Details
The routine automatically runs overnight and calculate values for 5,000 records. Only geocoded addresses are calculated, and it may take a few days to calculate values for all records in the database.
The following fields update in Households: Driving Distance and Driving Time. These will be cleared out if you edit the Address Line 1 value in the corresponding Address record.