One of my current projects at Calvary is to work on moving us to the latest release of the ACS People Suite (10.1.1.2). Part of this process is getting all of our ACS The Ministry Scheduler data into ACS Facility Scheduler.
Facility Scheduler Medcity
ACS Facility Scheduler is an 'on demand' product. This means that all the actual data sits on ACS' servers, and they handle data integrity, backup, etc. for you. Months ago, we looked at converting to Facility Scheduler before ACS 10.0 came out. At the time, there were some issues we had (features missing). So, we waited until those features came out. When they arrived, I had other projects taking precedence, and consequently we rolled it all into the 10.x upgrade.
Opening Facility Scheduler. If you installed a desktop shortcut, simply double-click it to open Facility Scheduler. If not, click Start All Programs ACS Technologies ACS Facility Scheduler. In the Log On window, enter the user name and password given to you in the Facility Scheduler welcome e-mail. (If you have trouble, see Logging In. What a decade for innovation! Starting in 2000, PDS Church Office, PDS Formation Office, and PDS School Office were released for Windows and could share the same database between them. In 2004, ACS Technologies® purchased Parish Data System keeping it as a separate brand and continuing its development.
As part of our upgrade process, I found out that ACS has a great conversion tool to transfer your current ACS TMS data into Facility Scheduler. I first used this tool when we were testing the feature set. Before this 10.x upgrade, I got in touch with one of the ACS people about 'resetting' our data so I could re-upload the current data. He kindly let me know that the latest version of the tool had this functionality built in!
However, if you take a look at the ACS Knowledge Base article or Facility Scheduler FAQ on the subject, you find that you can no longer download the conversion tool (and it doesn't show up in the previous 'client downloads' section either).
Acs Facility Scheduler
Does anyone out there have the file 'tmsconversion.exe' or 'ACS_TMS_to_FS_Conversion.exe', the converter to move from The Ministry Scheduler to Facility Scheduler? If so, please shoot me an email: sross *at* calvaryonline.cc