Common Settings
- COMMON, ACHPaymentTypeID
- The Payment Type ID for ACH payments.
- COMMON, AddressesPageID
- Page ID for the Addresses page.
- COMMON, AllergyAttributeID
- The Allergy Attribute ID.
- COMMON, BackgroundCheckNotClearStatus
- A text value that will appear in the Background Check status of a Participant record when ALL CLEAR is set to FALSE on a Contact's last Background Check.
- COMMON, BackgroundCheckUrl
- The URL for your Background Check vendor. SecureSearch and Protect My Ministry are the only supported integration vendors.
- COMMON, BackgroundCheckUsername
- The username of your account with your Background Check vendor.
- COMMON, BackgroundCheckPassword
- The password of your account with your Background Check vendor.
- SERVICES, BackgroundCheckNotificationTemplateID
- The ID of the Message template to be used by the Background Check Renewal Notification sending contacts a link and details requesting they complete the Background Check request form. Available merge fields are based on the Background Check page and normal Contact Fields. Do not modify the link included in this email.
- COMMON, BackgroundCheckTestMode
- Specifies whether or the not background check is to be sent in 'Test' mode. This value should always be set to 'false' unless requested by Support.
- COMMON, BackgroundCheckTemplateID
- The ID of the Message template to be used when sending Contacts a link and details requesting they complete the Background Check request form on the Portal either through the Background Check Request Tool. Available merge fields are based on the Background Check page and normal Contact Fields. Do not modify the link included in this email.
- COMMON, BingAPIkey
- See Map My Selection Tool Configuration Settings. Get your church specific API key from BING following the instructions in this Microsoft article. Refer to the Bing's Terms of Use for details on usage circumstances, allowances, etc.
- COMMON, CallNumberType
- 1 - ContactID
2 - HouseholdID
3 - Family Call # (from households table)
4 - Deprecated
- COMMON, childPosition
- COMMON, CompanyHouseholdPositionID
- COMMON, ContactPageID
- Page ID for the Contacts page.
- COMMON, CutoverDate
- MM/DD/YYYY - The date your organization started to use MinistryPlatform.
- COMMON, DeceasedSpouseRelationship
- COMMON, defaultBatchEntryTypeID
- COMMON, defaultCongregationID
- The ID of the Congregation that will be set for the Household when creating a new Contact by tools like the MailChimp Sync Tool.
- COMMON, defaultContactID
- Default Contact ID in your database (almost always 2).
- COMMON, defaultContactStatus
- COMMON, DefaultCountryCode
- This is the default country value that will be populated when creating new address records.
- COMMON, defaultDonorID
- The Donor ID that will be used when a donor record is not matched or does not exist.
- COMMON, defaultParticipantType
- Currently used by the BMT, Check-In 2, and various Tools. A change here will affect all of these.
- COMMON, defaultPaymentTypeID
- COMMON, defaultProgramID
- COMMON, DefaultStatementFrequency
- The Statement Frequency set for newly created Donor records via Tools.
- COMMON, DefaultStatementMethod
- The Statement Method set for newly created Donor records via Tools.
- COMMON, DefaultStatementType
- The Statement Type set for newly created Donor records via Tools.
- COMMON, EmailDomain
- Defines the sending email domain for the Email Server. Any email sent with this domain will not be sent from the EmailProxyFrom value. For example, email addresses are all in the form "joe@universalchurch.org" would use the domain "universalchurch.org" in this field. Leave this blank to NOT use the proxy.
This has been deprecated as of the Platform Winter 2019 update. It was replaced by the Email Domain field on the Domain record.
- COMMON, EmailProxyFrom
- Defines the from email to be used when the sender is not on EmailDomain. This allows other domains to send email through your domain. This address will be used in the FROM field and the actual sender will be sent as the replyTo address.
This has been deprecated as of the Platform Winter 2019 update. It was replaced by the Email Proxy From field on the Domain record.
- COMMON, EncryptionKey
- The EncryptionKey is used during the Encryption and Decryption of SecureUrls. This does not normally need to be changed. If you change this all previously sent Urls will become invalid.
- COMMON, femaleGenderID
- COMMON, GoogleMapsAPIKey
- See Google Maps API Key.
- COMMON, GlobalCongregationID
- Congregation_ID. Affects online_giving.aspx. Identifies the Congregation your church uses as the "church-wide" congregation. If set, programs assigned to this congregation will be available no matter what. Also, this setting makes church-wide Events appear on the Event Calendar regardless of the filtered Congregation.
- COMMON, hhPosition
- COMMON, HouseholdSourceID
- (18 = Church) This is used if a new Household is created through the applications that use this value.
- COMMON, ImageUrl
- The absolute URL to your getfile.aspx file on your server. This is set for you and should not change.
- COMMON, isEnterprise
- COMMON, isMarriedToRelationship
- COMMON, maleGenderID
- COMMON, marriedStatus
- COMMON, MonthsTillBackgroundCheckExpires
- An integer value representing the number of months after which a servant needs a new background check.
- COMMON, mrPrefix
- COMMON, mrsPrefix
- COMMON, MyCallsAssignableUserID
- Contact Log entries assigned to be Made By this User ID will display on the My Calls page and be visible to all call team members. They can take over that contact log entry.
- COMMON, ParentOfRelationship
- COMMON, ParticipantTypeID
- Participant records created by the Transfer Selection Tool will be given this Participant Type.
- COMMON, ParticipantStatusID
- COMMON, PathToPortal
- Absolute path to Portal. Include trailing slash.
- COMMON, PathToMobileTools
- The current path to MobileTools. Include trailing slash.
- COMMON, PhoneMask
- COMMON, singleStatus
- COMMON, State
- The state abbreviation that will be the default value in the State field in places such as the Add/Edit Family Tool and the Add Family option in Check-in. For example, enter CA if you want California to be the default state.
- COMMON, ThinkMinistryRepository
- This is the URL to the file repository used by ACS Technologies. Do Not Change.
- COMMON, UnassignedDonorID
- Donor_ID value of the donor record used for donations that cannot be assigned to a real donor.
- COMMON, WidowMaritalStatusID