January 23, 2009

New Smart Group Rule - NOT In a Group

@ksc had mentioned that he needed to gather up all the people in his congregation who weren’t part of a Life Group so he could send them a message to encourage them to become involved. Stafftool’s Smart Groups offer a way to track people who are already part of groups, but not the opposite, so I set out to make this possible…

Now, you can choose a “who are not members of…” Smart Group rule and then choose the Group that you are interested in. One thing to keep in mind - the rule includes all members of the group, including any child groups, even if they’re not explicitly added to the parent group. So, for instance, if you have a “Home Groups” parent group with child groups within it for every individual home group, you can simply choose the parent “Home Groups” group to get everyone. Here’s a simple sample Smart Group that would gather everyone not in a home group and who’s not tagged as out of town, since you wouldn’t want to contact them for frequent local involvement like a home group:

People not in a home group

This opens up a lot of possibilities for finding and communicating with people who aren’t currently involved that you’d to be.

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