Activities

The Activities module is an add-on that you can purchase for Vernon CMS. It adds extensive project management facilities, handling information about both the objects and their associated activities.

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Videos

Watch this video in our Vernon CMS webinar series on YouTube to see the Activities module in our Demo system.

Explainer

Explainer: Activities module in Vernon CMS (Vernon Systems blog)

 

Get started

• How Activity files work

• Types of Activity files

Link your Activity records

• Link objects and activities together

• Add a saved list of objects to an activity

• Link activities together

Manage your linked records

• Check for scheduling conflicts for objects in different activities

• Copy objects from a linked activity

• See all activities linked to an object

• Reject an object from an activity

Search on Activity files

• Search for linked Activity records in an Activity file

Manage your loan records

• Renew an inward or outward loan

• Return an inward or outward loan

User Symbolics for Activity files

• Extract the current related activity

• Return the last related activity

• Return related activities based on their procedural status

• Return the current location of related objects

• Return the total value of related objects

• Display all Exhibition Concepts linked to an Exhibition Venue

Activities customisation (for Supervisor users)

• Change the One Line Summary of Object in Activity files

• Set your conflict-checking preferences for activities

• Set your sign-off preferences for activities

• Set your scheduling preferences for activities

• Set your object value preferences for activities

• Add object fields to activities

• Set your loan renewal preferences for activities

• Set your loan return preferences for activities

Set up procedural control (for Supervisor users)

• How procedural control works

• Plan your procedures

• View your Procedural Status terms

• Create a Procedural Status term

Client presentations

Managing Inward Loans Using the Activities Module

Presented by Meg Driver, Museums of History NSW at the Vernon User Group Online Conference 2023.

Vernon Activities Module

Presented by Alison Raaymakers, Australian Racing Museum at the Vernon User Group Online Conference 2023.

Topic Records as Learning Resources in Vernon Browser

Presented by Dean Beasley, Queensland Museum at the Vernon User Group Online Conference 2023.