Virtual Enrollment Party

This entry is a result of a phone call I got from a CEED this week. He does his own ES237, and was itchin' to get done so he could start picking corn. As a result, he may have sort of skimmed over the "successful stat" packet...

He had entered all his group enrollments, previewed his ES237, and then kind of leaped over a few pages to the last page, which is "year-end tasks". He was busily checking off all his accomplishments, which included year-end processing. You can see where this is going, can't you?

When he reached me (and he was an unhappy camper), he had discovered that he couldn't print his ES237 (or any other report, for that matter). Ooopsie doopsie. When you do year-end processing, all members and leaders are changed to Inactive, and all group enrollments are deleted, to get ready for the new year.

Fortunately, this particular CEED is smarter than your average bear, as Yogi says, and he had actually done all the things on the list, including the optional "make a copy of your Data folder". We were able to get him up and running again by just changing his Data path to be the copy he created right before he did year-end processing. He had all his records as they were at the end of the year. When he gets done with the things he needs to do, we'll change the data path back again to the original folder and he can start the new year. If he had NOT made that data folder copy, there would have been no way for me to help him out, because I didn't have a backup from him.

Five minutes into the phone call, we were both happy, and he was on his way out the door, to jump in the combine he had parked at the curb. If you have not done year-end processing yet, think about making a copy of your data folder before you do that. If nothing else, be sure you do not do year-end until you hear from me that I have received your stat backup!!