Reusing Involvements

This guide is for Tenth Staff members who are administrators and managers of MyTenth. If you are not one of them but have questions or issues related to this, please email [email protected].

We prefer to re-use involvements to allow clear tracking of engagement over time. However, this is only helpful if the events within an involvement are similar enough to be comparable over time. For example, seeing participation in the College Retreat year over year is helpful, but not if there's an Internationals retreat also in the same involvement.

How to decide whether to reuse an involvement: Is the new thing generally the same as the old thing?

Some criteria to help decide:

• Does it serve a similar purpose? (social event, training, worship service)

• Is it being run by the same ministry (or ministries)?

• Does it have a similar level of publicity? (listed on the website, etc. or not)

• Does it take a similar format (weekend retreat, weekly class)? If not, is this a permanent change?

• Is the registration similar?

• Are separate instances scheduled too close together for reuse? (e.g. back-to-back ABS terms have to be in separate involvements because we promote the next class during the previous term.)

If the answer to any of these questions is 'no', we probably should use a different involvement.

Make sure to check for inactive involvements that may fit the criteria.

If there is no involvement that matches these criteria, create a new involvement.