Locations

Concepts

Locations are used to identify:

where jobs are being performed, and therefore where volunteers need to be,
where volunteers are available,
where trainings are being held,
for job associations, and other tools, too.

By including postal codes and/or latitude/longitude information with each location, VSys can use that data when searching for jobs and trainings to locate individuals within a certain distance of some other point.

Locations in VSys One are hierarchical, meaning nested. This lets one location be within another location, and have further locations within that.

Locations are project-specific. A project can copy locations from another project or from the global locations, but changing one project's locations doesn't affect any other project.

How to use

Open the Locations Manager from the Setup panel from either the VSys One main screen or a project.

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Tools

On the left side of the screen.

Add location	Opens the location editor to create a new location.
Copy locations from elsewhere	Shows other projects (including "global") that have locations. Select one or more locations to copy in order to add them to this project.

On the right-click menu

Right-click on a location in this list to edit its properties and for other tools relevant to specific locations.

Add new location	Opens the location editor to create a new location.
Add new location within this location	Opens the location editor to create a new location, with the new location being a child of the currently selected location.
Edit	Edits an existing location's properties.
Merge with another location	Asks for the name of another location, then adds that location's children to this location.
Delete	Deletes a location along with all of the child locations within it.
Comments and images	Lets you associate pictures and comments with the current location.

Locations are stored by internal codes, not by name. Renaming a location renames it everywhere in this project. If you delete a location, it is gone forever - making a new one with the same name will not bring it back or re-associate it with the things that used the old one.

In This Section

Location Information

Sample Locations