Event Impact Settings

Within the event creation/edit workflow, users have the ability to set and update the impact permissions. These settings will affect how your users can/will create impacts for your event and in what ways. Primary relevant settings in both New View and Classic view are:

• Setting Specified User Impact Permissions
• Disabling & Enabling Event Impacts
• Creating Impacts & Sharing
• Mobile Impact Settings

Terminology, definitions, and instructions on how to update these permissions are provided below.

Setting Specified User Impact Permissions

New View 

To enable or update these features in both New View, admins must be in the Edit Event workflow within the Impact Setting Screen, under Allow Impacts, click the drop down to select the impact setting options you prefer for your event. 

The options made available to select from are:

Allow both users and admins to create impacts: With this option turned on, both users and admins can submit impacts for an event—either before (if Allow Early Impact is enabled) and/or after the activity takes place. As a bonus, when admins sign users in manually or mark them as Attended through the Sign-In Kiosk or Manage Registrations grid, impacts can be automatically created for those users.

Allow only admins to create impacts: This setting keeps things streamlined by allowing only admins to add impacts to an event—again, before (if Allow Early Impact is enabled) and/or after the activity. When this option is selected, impacts won’t be auto-generated for general users when admins sign them in manually.

Disable impacts for everyone: Choosing this option means no impacts can be created—by users or admins—either before (even if Allow Early Impact is enabled) or after the activity takes place. 

Classic View

Within Classic View, all the options provided above are not provided. However, admins can still set the permissions for who can create an impact. Start from the Event Edit screen navigating to Impact Settings. Admins will be able to make update the seeing under the "Who Can Create Impacts".

The options made available to select from are:

1. Anyone
2. Registrants Only

Disabling Impacts/Disable User Impacts

To find this setting, create or edit an event and then click on Impact Settings from the left-hand menu.  

New View:

Scroll down until you see "Disable User Impacts": 

Classic View:

You will then be able to select from three options 

1. No

If you select No, then user impacts will remain enabled. This means that a user can create their own impact by clicking Add Impact. Impacts can also be created through sign in/check in processes if those are enabled, and admins can add impacts manually as well. 

2. Yes, Disable user impacts 

If you select Yes, Disable user impact, users will not be able to create their own impacts. However, impacts can still be created through the sign in/check in processes, and admins can manually add impacts. 

3. Yes, Disable all impacts 

If you select Yes, Disable all impacts, users will not be able to create their own impacts, and impacts cannot be created through the sign in/check in processes. If signed in/check in, a user will not have an impact created or be marked as attended. However, if need be, admins can still manually add impacts for these events. 

Creating impacts and sharing

New View:

Here are some of the impact settings available for events:

Share Impacts: This allows impacts made for an event to be auto-shared to a community partner who would like to have a copy of the information for grant and reporting purposes. 

Allow Early Impacts: This allows individuals to track impacts or their engagement outside of the proposed times available for the event. e.g., if the event is 3 days from now, but the individual ended up volunteering or doing work before the actual event start day, allow early impacts enables theindividual to track that before the event is over. 

Prefill Impact Hours: This allows the total duration of the time (be it the start and end time of the event, the shift start or end time, etc.,) to be automatically calculated in the system so that the user would not need to input the total hours, and instead the hours are auto-filled for the user to just agree and submit to. Note: This only applies if the event is a multi-day event and open opportunity. 

To learn about Global or Network Impact Settings, check out the Customize Impact Settings article.

Mobile Impact Settings

Admins now have the capabilities to update the impact seeings and more for the mobile app. Use the video below to find instructions on how to set/update user impact settings.