Disable Messages Temporarily
When editing records, you receive several messages to confirm your actions and prompt additional changes. This helps to ensure you don't update a record by accident. However, if you're updating many records one-by-one, you may want to skip these messages to save time.
You can temporarily turn off these messages by setting an option in the Initial Setup window.
Note: This is a temporary option that will be reset each time you exit the program.
- On the File menu in your PDS program, click .
- On the Program Options tab, select Disable Editing Messages.
- To acknowledge that this option will be reset when you exit the program, click OK.
- Click Save/OK then Close.
Once you set the option, you can edit records without having to confirm your actions. Instead, an "automatic answer" is provided for you.
Actions Affected
When the option is selected, these actions do not display confirmation messages:
- Selecting or clearing the Inactive checkbox
- Clearing the Deceased checkbox
- Editing the Deceased date
- Editing a family or member name
- Selecting or clearing the Parishioner checkbox
- Selecting or clearing one of your user-defined checkboxes
Messages Affected
When the option is selected, these messages do not display and the program uses the "automatic answer".
| Window | Question | Automatic Answer |
|---|---|---|
| Families | Do you want to make this family inactive? | Yes |
| Do you want to make this family active? | Yes | |
| Do you want to mark this family and all its members as inactive? | Yes | |
| This family and all its members will now only print in reports when inactives are specifically requested. | OK | |
| Do you want to set the Left Parish date to today? | No | |
| Do you want to inactivate ministries and talents for all members in this family? | Yes | |
| Do you want to mark this family and all its members as active? | Yes | |
| Do you want to reactivate ministries and talents for all member in this family? | Yes | |
| Do you want to automatically change the last name for all members of the family from [old name] to [new name]? | Yes | |
| Do you want to automatically change the name for the [head/spouse] from [old name] to [new name]? | Yes | |
| This family will now only print in reports when non-parishioners are specifically requested. | OK | |
| If you clear the [user-defined name] checkbox for this family, the checkbox for all its members will also be cleared. | OK | |
| Members | Records are not automatically removed from the sacramental registers. If this [sacrament name] is in the sacramental register, you may want to manually remove that information. | OK |
| All family members are now inactive. Would you like to make the family inactive? | Yes | |
| This member is marked as personnel. Would you like to make the personnel record active? | Yes | |
| Do you want to inactivate this member's [ministries/talents]? | Yes | |
| Are you sure you want to reactivate this deceased member? | Yes | |
| Do you want to automatically change the family name from [old name] to [new name]? | Yes | |
| Do you want to automatically change the family's informal salutation from [old salutation] to [new salutation]? | Yes | |
| Do you want to automatically change the family's formal salutation from [old salutation] to [new salutation]? | Yes | |
| Do you want to change the last name for the other family members to [new last name]? | Yes | |
| Personnel | Do you want to make all the assignments inactive as well? | Yes |
| This person may have inactive assignments. Remember to review them. | OK |
When you exit the program, the option is automatically cleared, and the next time you open PDS, all messages display as usual.