Basis

Description

Subjective/manual

These are the simplest types of awards. VSys will not automatically nominate anyone for them, they must be manually nominated based on your own criteria. Example: "Most Friendly Volunteer".

Hours between two dates

Requires a minimum number of hours between the dates that you specify.

Lifetime hours

Requires a minimum number of hours credited in the volunteer's entire history.

Years with hours

A certain count of qualifying years is required, a year only counts if, during that year, the volunteer has at least the specified number of hours.

Months with hours

A count of qualifying months is required.

Years with active months

A certain number of qualifying years is required. A year only counts if, during that year, there are at least the specified number of months with volunteer hours.

Years since first activity

Counts the years since the volunteer's first credited volunteer hours, and that count must be between the given minimum and maximum.

List/Intellilist

A person is eligible for this award if he is on one or more of the lists you select here.

Criteria

Description

Start date, End date

Only hours during this time period qualify.

Minimum/ Maximum hours

The total hours sum must be between these values (inclusive).

Only award once

If the person has already received this award, don't nominate again.

Minimum hours in a year for it to count

For a year to qualify, the volunteer must have contributed at least this many hours.

Minimum/ Maximum months

Number of months during the volunteer's history which must include hours.

Minimum/ Maximum years

Only award if the number of years meeting the criteria is between these two values (inclusive).

Activity in how many months makes an active year

A year is active only if the volunteer has hours in at least this many months during that year.

Eligible people

Only people of these types will be nominated.

Volunteer types

Only people of these volunteer types will be nominated.

Eligible groups

Only people on this list will be nominated.

Exclusions

Exclude out people who are deceased, archived, inactive, etc. from automatic nomination.

Don't award if...

Prevents automatic nomination for this award if the recipient already has any of the selected awards. Use this, for example, in the 1,500 hours award: you wouldn't want to give it to someone who's already received the 2,500 hours or 5,000 hours awards.

Detailed description

This is used in reports and mail merges.

Inactive

If an award type is inactive, it won't be used for future nominations.