Nov 01, 2019 05:13 PM
I am the Executive Director of a non-profit. We have a team of people who have individual fundraising goals which includes a total amount given by recurring monthly donors.
On table 1 (Individuals) I include the following fields:
On table 2 (Monthly Donors) I include the following fields
SO… a commitment for a monthly donation comes through and I enter the information in table 2. I want it to automatically populate table 1 fields after I choose the individual who brought in the donation.
The two fields in the table 1 that I’m having a brain block on are…
I hope this makes sense. Thank you so much for any help you can provide.
Nov 01, 2019 10:07 PM
Easy answer: You want to designate {NumberOfDonors}
in the [Individual]
table as a count field that counts {MonthlyDonors}
; {TotalAmount}
will be a rollup field that follows the link in {MonthlyDonors}
to roll up {Amount}
using an aggregation formula of SUM(values)
. Here’s a quick demo base (open the link and copy the base to your own workspace to be able to examine it):
Not-so-easy answer: The same as the easy one, except that if by “monthly” you really do mean monthly, it gets more complicated. In that case, you’ll need to implement a method for breaking down donations by month and tallying them separately; you could do this by, say, creating a [MonthlyDonors]
table for each month, with separate rollup fields in [Individuals]
for each monthly table; alternatively, you could do some fancy calculating in [MonthlyDonors]
to indicate for which month[s] a donation should be counted. If you’re trying to keep cumulative tabs on a fundraiser’s total YTD donations, things become even trickier, as you need to track annual donations on a prorated basis. (Since you are tracking ‘projected’ yearly amount, you may not be looking at things with such a degree of granularity…)
Alternatively, you could just clone the base on the first of each month, delete all the records in [MonthlyDonors]
, and start over. :winking_face:
There are relatively straightforward solutions to however you wish to approach this — and whatever ‘this’ is you want to approach — but the details depend on what you need to accomplish.
Nov 02, 2019 08:03 PM
One more tip, in the “Monthly Donors” table, group the records by the “Individual” field. That way you’ll be able to see the sum for monthly donations and annual projections.
Nov 03, 2019 01:26 PM
Thank you! This makes sense. I believe that the “easy answer” is actually the one I need! I so appreciate your time. :slightly_smiling_face:
Edited to Add: I finally got a chance to sit down and apply your solution… It worked perfectly!