If you are looking at activity records this morning you may notice a cosmetic change to the filter bar. We’ve done this to make it a little more obvious that you can click to change what you see in the table.
It was accompanied by a couple of minor changes to groups. You can now filter activity records by up to 24 months (rather than 12 previously), and you can also specify “up to 5 of…” for multi-select fields.
We’ve cut a third off the price of our reporting training day in central Birmingham on Monday 18th November. Birmingham is a new venue for us which sadly has not had as much interest as we’d hoped. Although it is undersubscribed the venue is still booked, so we’ve decided to let our Lamplighters reap the benefit and offer remaining places at a discount.
We have reduced the price to £145 per person, so if you’ve been thinking about training, or would like to hone your skills, now’s the time! This still includes training in an IT suite with all materials provided, and a two hour support pack to help you put your learning into practice.
On the day we will cover the best ways to get information out of Lamplight, and how to check the quality of data being put into the system. After this your support pack gives you two hours of 1:1 phone support where we help you to apply the learning to your own system and build the reports and lists that you need.
This offer is for our training in central Birmingham on Monday 18th November at Highbury Apprenticeships, Quayside Tower, Broad Street, B1 2HF.
To book a place, just email us: hello@lamplightdb.co.uk.
You can find out more about open training on our website: http://www.lamplightdb.co.uk/open-training-days/.
An update last night sees some improvements to outcomes. We’ve changed the layout of the main ‘activity > add > outcome’ screen slightly to make it clearer. If you are using an established outcomes framework that includes descriptors for individual scores, you’ll see there are now drop downs that give you the meanings of the number scores.
If you have any ‘calculated outcomes’ – where Lamplight works out a sub-total or total score for you – you’ll see in individual profiles you can now view these on their own radar chart (which works best when there are several sub-totals) – but the animation showing change over time may also be helpful.
Also on outcomes, if you show full details in a data view, Yes/No outcomes will be shown as ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ instead of 1 or 0 (though you’ll need to edit and save the data view first for this to take effect).
There’s also a new option in the relationships section of data views: ‘Name and contact details for download’. This gives you the same information as the ‘Name and contact details’ option – the address, phone and email of the related profile. The difference is that it separates it with a | symbol (the one next to Z on regular keyboards), and empty fields are included. This all means that if you use the view and download it, you can use the ‘text to columns’ functionality to split up the data and it’ll all be lined up properly (choose ‘delimited’ and enter the | symbol as the delimiter).
A couple of other tweaks in this update: