Ok. I understand now.kpoff wrote:I just discovered that there are two places where we can fill out a Child Blessing Record. The place where it becomes an official part of the ward record is apparently found under Membership - Ordinances - Record Child of Blessing. That one took the information just fine and the child shows up in the ward list now. It also allows us to print the Blessing Certificate.
However, there is a second place that will take information to fill out and print a Child Blessing Record. That is found under Reports/Forms - Ordinance Record Forms - Child Blessing Record. This allows you to fill out the form and print it out for the signature of the parent or guardian. This is the one that gives us the pop-up window telling us to mail or fax a copy to Church Headquarters.
Seems a bit confusing to have similar things in two different places, especially when it would be helpful to have some instruction about where to look if it isn't the form you need. It's also a bit disconcerting to have a pop-up window with instructions that nobody seems to know anything about. Maybe it's a holdover from an old policy, but I hope someone out there knows who to inform so it can be fixed.
These are two different things intended for two different purposes.
The form under Reports/Forms - Ordinance Record Forms - Child Blessing Record is what you print before the blessing. Usually you only fill out a portion of this form (or even leave it blank) and then give it to the parents to finish filling out and signing. This is the way that you gather the information about the child. Filling out this form does not record the blessing.
Once the ordinance is performed you then take that form and use the Membership - Ordinance - Record Child Blessing to actually record the blessing. As you've seen now this is what actually creates the membership record and prints the blessing certificate.
The Reports/Forms - Ordinance Record Forms dialog lets you print several different forms. None of these forms actually record anything. They are used to gather information so that you can record ordinances later. MLS allows you to save these forms if you want. For most forms this isn't very useful because once you print the form you don't need the information you entered in the form. But the same ability is used for the confidential forms. You often need to save those forms until the discipline has been fully processed. Because of that MLS gives a popup which lets you know that just because you saved the form, you haven't sent anything to CHQ. For confidential forms you still need to send them in. But it shows that same dialog regardless of which form you save.
So don't worry about sending anything in. There is no policy change.
