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Common

 

COMMON,ACHPaymentTypeID
The Payment Type ID for ACH payments.

COMMON,AddressesPageID
Page ID for the Addresses page.

COMMON,AllergyAttributeID
The Allergy Attribute ID.

COMMON,BackgroundCheckNotClearStatus 
A text value that will appear in the Background Check status of a Participant record when ALL CLEAR is set to FALSE on a Contact's last Background Check. 

COMMON,BackgroundCheckUrl
The URL for your Background Check vendor. SecureSearch and Protect My Ministry are the only supported integration vendors. 

COMMON,BackgroundCheckUsername
The username of your account with your Background Check vendor.

COMMON,BackgroundCheckPassword
The password of your account with your Background Check vendor.

COMMON,BackgroundCheckRenewalTemplateID
The ID of the Message template to be used by the Background Check Renewal Notification sending Contacts a link and details requesting they complete the Background Check request form on the Portal. Available merge fields are based on the Background Check page and normal Contact Fields. Do not modify the link included in this email.

COMMON,BackgroundCheckTestMode
Specifies whether or the not background check is to be sent in 'Test' mode.  This value should always be set to 'false' unless requested by Support.

COMMON,BackgroundCheckTemplateID
The ID of the Message template to be used when sending Contacts a link and details requesting they complete the Background Check request form on the Portal either via the Background Check Request Tool. Available merge fields are based on the Background Check page and normal Contact Fields. Do not modify the link included in this email.

COMMON,BingAPIkey
See Map My SelectionGet your church specific API key from BING following the instructions in this Microsoft article. Refer to the Bing's Terms of Use for details on usage circumstances, allowances, etc. 

COMMON,CallNumberType
1 - ContactID.
2 - HouseholdID.
3 - Family Call # (from households table).
4 - Deprecated.

COMMON,childPosition
No Description.

COMMON,CompanyHouseholdPositionID
No Description.

COMMON,ContactPageID
Page ID for the Contacts page.

COMMON,CutoverDate
mm/dd/yyyy - The date your organization started to use MinistryPlatform.

COMMON,DeceasedSpouseRelationship
No Description.

COMMON,defaultBatchEntryTypeID
No Description.

COMMON,defaultCongregationID
The ID of the Congregation that will be set for the Household when creating a new Contact by tools.

COMMON,defaultContactID
Default Contact ID in your database (almost always =2).

COMMON,defaultContactStatus
No Description.

COMMON,DefaultCountryCode
This is the default country value that will be populated when creating new address records.

COMMON,defaultDonorID
The Donor ID that will be used when a donor record is not matched or does not exist.

COMMON,defaultParticipantType
Currently used by the BMT, Check-In 2, and various Tools. A change here will affect all of these.

COMMON,defaultPaymentTypeID
No Description.

COMMON,defaultProgramID
No Description.

COMMON,DefaultStatementFrequency
The Statement Frequency set for newly created Donor records via Tools.

COMMON,DefaultStatementMethod
The Statement Method set for newly created Donor records via Tools.

COMMON,DefaultStatementType
The Statement Type set for newly created Donor records via Tools.

COMMON,EncryptionKey
The EncryptionKey is used during the Encryption and Decryption of SecureUrls. This could should not normally need to be changed. If you change this all previously sent Urls will become invalid. This must

COMMON,femaleGenderID
No Description.

COMMON,GoogleMapsAPIKey
See Google Maps API Key.

COMMON,GlobalCongregationID
Congregation_ID. Affects online_giving.aspx. Identifies the Congregation your church uses as the "churchwide" congregation. If set, programs assigned to this congregation will be available no matter what. Also, this setting makes church-wide Events appear on the Event Calendar regardless of the filtered Congregation.

COMMON,hhPosition
No Description.

COMMON,HouseholdSourceID
(18 = Church) This is used if a new Household is created through the applications that use this value.

COMMON,ImageUrl
The absolute URL to your getfile.aspx file on your server. This should be set for you and should not change.

COMMON,isEnterprise
No Description.

COMMON,isMarriedToRelationship
No Description.

COMMON,maleGenderID
No Description.

COMMON,marriedStatus
No Description.

COMMON,MonthsTillBackgroundCheckExpires
An integer value representing the number of months after which a servant needs a new background check.

COMMON,mrPrefix
No Description.

COMMON,mrsPrefix
No Description.

COMMON,MyCallsAssignableUserID
Contact Log entries assigned to be Made By this User ID will appear on the My Calls page and be visible to all call team members. They can take over that contact log entry.

COMMON,ParentOfRelationship
No Description.

COMMON,ParticipantTypeID
Participant records created by the Transfer Selection Tool will be given this Participant Type.

COMMON,ParticipationStatusID
No Description.

COMMON,PathToPortal
Absolute path to Portal. Include trailing slash.

COMMON,PhoneMask
No Description.

COMMON,singleStatus
No Description.

COMMON,State
The desired state abbreviation that will be the default value in the State field in places such as the Add/Edit Family Tool and the Add Family option in Check-in. For example, enter CA if you want California to be the default state.

COMMON,ThinkMinistryRepository
This is the URL to the file repository used by Think Ministry Inc. Do Not Change.

COMMON,UnassignedDonorID
Donor_ID value of the donor record used for donations that cannot be assigned to a real donor.

COMMON,WidowMaritalStatusID
No Description.