VSys One: Volunteer Management Software

Object Renaming

Object renaming lets you tell VSys to call certain things by different names. For example, you can refer to "Projects" as "Special events" if that makes more sense to your organization. While you can't define new types of addresses and phone numbers, you can rename existing types by using this tool. It doesn't change how VSys works with them, but it will display them using the terms you specify.

Use the Translations tool to change the texts shown to users beyond the ones available here.

From the VSys One home screen and the Setup panel, click on the Object renaming link.

• Check Override built-in object names to enable object renaming. Un-check it to disable it. For each type of object that you want to rename, enter both a singular and plural name. For example, if you're renaming "Project" to "Special event", enter "Special event" in the Singular column, and "Special events" in the Plural column. To return an object to its original name, just leave the field blank.
• Do the same on the Addresses and Phone numbers tabs, providing a new name where applicable or leaving it blank to use the built-in term.
• The Statuses tab renames the various built-in statuses for people. You can't create new statuses, but you can change the names of the built-in ones.
• Job association statuses works very similarly: you can rename existing ones but not create your own.
• Options renames various objects in VSys such as "Skills", "Age groups", etc.
• Click on the Save button to commit your changes.

After saving your changes, VSys One will need to shut down for the changes to take effect.

Injudicious use of object renaming can confuse your users, either accidentally or by intent. (Yes, you could rename all objects to "George", and while this would probably be very entertaining, your staff may hurt you as a result.)

Object renaming does not have any language options, meaning that renaming "Project group" to "Special event group" results in those being called "Special event group" in all languages used by VSys. To make global changes on a language-by-language basis, use Translations search and replace.