LAMP 2 Statistics – Part 2 – Statistics App

Introduction
Your Statistical data for the year ending 31st December
should be completed and submitted by the
28 February of the following year.

Congregations can enter their statistics online via the LAMP2 Statistics App.

This Guide is provided to assist you in using the Statistics App and completing the Statistics Collection.

Data entered goes directly into the LCA secure national  database. Wherever possible, all Congregations are required to enter their information using  the Statistics App. This eliminates the need for re-keying of data by LCA & district offices and statisticians and ensures that information is as accurate as possible.

If you have any questions about the Statistics App, please contact either your District’s statistician or the  LCA National Office.(Contact details at the end of this Guide)

As has always been the case, the statistics are collected on a Congregational basis and so a Statistics are collected for Congregations and Congregations – Single Point Parish.

Wherever possible, a Statistics should also be collected for each Worship Centre each worship centre (preaching place, worshipping group in a multi-point  congregation or a group which worships in a language other than English as part of a  congregation). You should ensure that numbers of people, groups, offerings, expenditure etc is only included once.

If a Congregation/preaching place has closed during the year, please supply details for the part of the year for which the centre was operational.  Last but not least! Please note the resolution from a General Convention which asked Congregations which were closing to send their minute books, church records, and historical and archival material to the LCA Archives.

Statistics App
Navigate to the Statistics App.In the Contact Details page,

1. Click on the Statistics icon

Features of the Statistics App

1.  Organisation
9.  Answers (what you fill in)

2.  Report Year (most likely the current year)
10. Slider bar to get more questions

5.   No of Days left.  Generally, Statistics should be filed by a Due Date.  This is the number of days to that due date.
11.  Save button

4.  Progress Status
12.  PDF – Print out as a PDF

5.  Progress indicator – ALL QUESTIONS
13.   Online Help

6.  Category Tabs
14.   Last Saved By – who was the last person to add or update Statistics

7.   Category Progress Indicator
15.   Current User – you.

8.   Questions

Create a Blank Form
It is suggested that in accessing the statistics of your congregation for the first time (for a particular year) that you create and print out a blank form.

You can then use this blank to collect and handwrite the statistics onto it before filling in the statistics of the congregation for that year.

To do this, follow the steps below to create and printout a blank form.

As above, click on the Statistics icon

Verify that all the Statistics values are 0

Download and Save 

• See Printing in this Guide.

PDF print the blank Guide

1. Click on the PDF print icon at the top right hand side of the App

The PDF will be generated and show as a new tab in the browser.

Download or Save the PDF
Chrome (Download)

1. Click on the download icon

Save

Save in the location of your choice e.g. downloads or desktop etc

1. Click the Save button in the Window

Edge (Save)
Save the PDF that is opened in a new Tab

1. Click on the Save icon

Save in the location of your choice e.g. downloads or desktop etc

1. Click the Save button in the Window

Possible issues

The possible issues below are first time only.

Pop up blocked

If the document is not generated, it is most likely because of that the popup blocker.

Select the popup blocker icon in the top of the browser
It is generally shown with a red x to signify that you have a block

Enable popups

Enable pop-ups and redirects from https://apps.powerapps.com

1. Click on enable
2. Click on done

• Repeat the Print and Save process as above.

Print the PDF
With the PDF document now Saved or Downloaded, you can open it (double click on the document) and print a physical copy for handwriting the statistics values.

Alternatively, if you are comfortable in progressively updating the statistics as you find them, this can be done as an alternative method.

Adding and Updating Statistics
Progressively go through each Category and complete the Statistics in that Category.

1. Click on the Category name to select it. It will show as a Tab
   
2. Add the text in the Answer box.

• Press ‘Enter”
• Put the cursor into the next Answer box
• Add the text
• Repeat

     3. Use the slider to move down the list of questions.

• Put the pointer over the top of the slider
• Press and hold down the left click button on the mouse
• Keeping it pressed, drag the slider down. 
• Stop where you want to go and lift your finger off the left click button

Don’t worry if you can’t answer all of the questions straight away. 

1. You can also enter numbers where required, just the same way as text
2. If you don’t know what is being sought for the Answer –hover on the ‘I’ icon to find out more
3. IMPORTANT. Click Save when you have completed all the answers you can for a Category.

IMPORANT!
You MUST click SAVE  to save the data.
If close the window, click away ….before you have clicked ‘Save’ whatever you have entered since the last ‘Save’ will be lost. 

SAVE

Progress Indicators
As you progress in a Category the progress indicator in the Category tab will update as you answer each question.

Category progress indicator

Required progress indicator

0verall progress indicator

• The Statistics progress indicator will update as you answer each question.
• The Required progress indicator will update as you answer each Required (Red) question. (see Required section below for more information about Required)
• Overall progress indicator shows how many of all the questions are answered.

Continue completing Category Questions
Once completed as many questions as you know in a Category – then Click Save

• Note any questions that you could not answer for that Category.
• Ask the Chairperson or Treasurer for further details on questions that were not answered.

Click on the next Tab for each Category that you have been asked to fill out.

1. When all the questions in a Category are answered the progress indicator changes to Green and shows a tick.

Finish a Session
To Finish a Session do the following steps

1. IMPORTANT! Click on the Save button at the bottom of the page. 

2. Then navigate way from Organisation

This takes you back to the Organisation – Contact Details tab.

Close Power Apps by clicking the “X” on the tab at the top of the Browser.

Online Help
If you have any questions, click on the Help Icon. 

This will open the IT Help guide (a duplicate of this section).

If you are unsure as to what the question means or the response required
Hover over the ‘i” to see the Questions Explained 

Or
Go to the Section in this guide

Required Statistics
This is a special section/category.
There are number of Required Statistics that MUST be completed for the Congregation is considered to at least have Submitted their Statistics.’
This section shows the progress and the questions to completing the Required Questions needed as a minimum to Submit a statistics collection of the Congregation for the year.
The number of Required statistics and progress to completing them is shown in the Required statistics progress icon

The Required Questions are shown in the Progress Tab. 

The Required category / section is Read Only.  Its only role is to show you progress, what the questions are, where they are locate these questions.

You have to go to the Category of that the Required Statistic and fill it out there.

The Required category page shows you questions and where to find them.

Features of the Required Statistics Page

1. Required Tab
2. Required progress indicator
3. Required Questions – note Category and question number
4. Required statistics – as added or updated in the Category

Filling in Required Questions
‘Before – Category Page – with Required Questions

1. Category Tab
2. The Required Questions are shown in Red in the Category
3. Note the Required progress indicator

Adding and Updating Required Statistics

1. Enter the Required Statistic, press <enter. Key.

Repeat for each answer

      2. Required question changes colour from Red to Blue

Click ‘Save’ when finishing a Category

      3. Note the Required Question still to be completed
      4. Note the Process indicator in the Category – shows the number of entries for the Category and number of remaining questions to be completed
      5. Note the Required progress indicator. When Required Questions are answered the progress indicator updates
      6. Note the overall Statistics progress indicator – updates when any question is answered.

Submitted
Statistics have a Submitted status when all the Required Statistics are completed and Saved.

Click on “Submit” to ensure all the Required statistics are provided.

IMPORANT:  Even when ‘Submitted’ you can CONTINUE to answer more questions and provide additional data.

Printing

If you want to print out then

1. Click Save

Notice it shows on the screen “Saving to PDF”

1. Click the PDF print icon (“Export Report to PDF)

NOTE – if you have “Pop Ups’ blocked then printing to PDF will not work. 

See Help section at the end of this document for enabling ‘Pop Ups” in Chrome and Edge browser to enable this PowerApps to print to PDF.

A PDF document is created and opened in a new Tab in your browser