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Routines Configuration Settings

Edit the following configuration settings in MinistryPlatform to control various aspects of routines.

SERVICES Configuration Settings

SERVICES, SetDefaultCongregationID
If set to yes, households without a congregation will have the value from the COMMON, defaultCongregationID configuration setting set on the Household record by default. This automatically occurs at night.
SERVICES, AddHouseholdDonationDates
When set to yes, the routine can populate a household's Last Donation and First Donation fields.
SERVICES, AssignPledgesNightly
If set to yes, MinistryPlatform assigns donation distributions assigned to programs participating in pledge campaigns to active pledges by the campaign's donor or the donor's spouse.
SERVICES, AttendanceNotificationTemplateID
The ID of the Message record in the Communications table used to send nightly notifications when group attendance is needed and attendance notifications are enabled. Set this to 0 to turn off attendance notifications.
SERVICES, AttendanceNotificationEventVisibility
The visibility level you want set for the events created by the Group Attendance notification.
SERVICES, BackgroundCheckNotificationTemplateID
The message template used to send Background Check Status notifications. To enable notifications, enter the ID of the template you want to use. Set it to 0 to turn off background check notifications.
SERVICES, BackgroundCheckNotificationWeekdayNumber
The Background Check Status notification uses this setting. Enter the number the represents the day of the week you want to send a background check status notification.
  • To send the notification every day, enter 0.
  • To send the notification on Sundays, enter 1.
  • To send the notification on Mondays, enter 2.
  • To send the notification on Tuesdays, enter 3.
  • To send the notification on Wednesdays, enter 4.
  • To send the notification on Thursdays, enter 5.
  • To send the notification on Fridays, enter 6.
  • To send the notification on Saturdays, enter 7.
SERVICES, BirthdayNotificationTemplateID
The ID number of the message record in the Communications table used to send a happy birthday notification. Set this to 0 to turn off birthday notifications.
SERVICES, CareCaseNotificationTemplateID
The ID number of the message record in the Communications table used to send a Care Case notification. Set this to 0 to turn off Care Case notifications.
SERVICES, CopySharedAddresses
If set to yes, the Data Quality routine copies any address record shared by two households and assigns the new copy to one of those households. Set this to no to turn this off.
SERVICES, DaysTillTemporaryPasswordExpires
People that use the forgot password feature are placed in recovery and sent a temporary password. The nightly data quality routine erases that temporary password and sets it in recovery.
SERVICES, DBMailProfileName
The default profile used to send email with the DBMail service of SQL Server.
SERVICES, EventReminderNotificationTemplateID
The ID number of the Message record in the Communications table used to send nightly event reminders when the event's Days Out To Remind field is completed. Set to 0 to turn off event reminders. The Event Reminder notification uses this setting.
SERVICES, MessageRecapNotificationTemplateID
The ID number of the Message record in the Communications table used to send the Message Recap report to the author of messages to large lists of people. The Message Recap notification uses this setting.
SERVICES, MessageRecapMinimumRecipients
Customize the minimum number of recipients needed to send the notification. The default value is set to 100. You can change this to 50, 150, and so on. The Message Recap notification uses this setting.
SERVICES, OpportunityReminderNotificationTemplateID
The ID number of the Message record in the Communications table used to send out nightly opportunity reminders when the opportunity's Days Out To Remind field is completed. Set to 0 to turn off opportunity reminders. The Opportunity Reminder notification uses this setting.
SERVICES, ServiceNotificationTemplateID
The ID number of the Message record in the Communications table used to send nightly notification to the people scheduled to serve. Set this to 0 to turn off service notifications.
SERVICES, TaskNotificationTemplateID
The ID number of the Message record in the Communications table used to send nightly notifications of outstanding tasks to secured users. Set this to 0 to turn off task notifications.
SERVICES, WeeklyPromotionsByUpdate
Yes or no values only. When set to yes, the weekly promotion only changes the child's listed group, rather than end-dating and creating a new group participant record in the Promote To Group. This also affects the Selected Group Attendance report on the Groups page.

SSRS Configuration Settings

SSRS, AssignIncrementPledgeDays
The Data Quality routine uses this setting in the service_data_quality_assign_pledge stored procedure. This number sets how many days the system looks back or ahead to find donation distributions that might apply to existing pledges or create new pledges, if that option is enabled. By default, this window is defined as 90 days prior to today's date. You can change this date range if needed, but note that increasing the number of days may affect performance.
SSRS, BaseURL
The full URL to the MinistryPlatform site. Task notifications use this to replace the [BaseURL] token, among other things.