The Tools tab contains various utilities you can run that affect Shepherd's Staff in different ways. The tools tab also contains Contributions and Finance settings that affect those modules specifically. Below is a listing that walks through each of the items on this tab, and what these items do:
- Check for program updates - Running this tool will prompt the Shepherd's Staff updater utility to check to see if there are any available Shepherd's Staff updates. If there are, you will be prompted to close Shepherd's Staff in order to install the updates. This tool requires a current support contract and your database must be registered in order to receive updates.
- Register this database with WebTools - This tool will open the WebTools Manager window to register your Shepherd's Staff database so you can receive software updates and use the WebTools features of Shepherd's Staff.
- Compress Membership photos - This utility will compress all photos in your photos folder for Shepherd's Staff, which will reduce the file size on these photos. A backup is recommended before running this utility
- Reset the "Finance is checked out" warning - This utility will clear the warning that appears when you make a backup and you opt to "check out" finance. When finance is checked out users are warned that the changes they make in the finance module will be overwritten when a backup is restored.