Feature Guide · Ali Ryder · Dec 2, 2021
New Feature: Clone Users

In HIFIS 4.0.59.5 (December 2021), there's a new feature that allows you to clone an existing user. (If this sounds familiar, that's because we posted…

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Now that HIFIS version 4.0.59 is out and has been widely adopted, several communities have come to me asking for customized By-Name Lists (or Prioriti…
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A lot of communities conduct street outreach, but there's no obvious place for this information to go in HIFIS 4. 
Street outreach involves moving ou…
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The HIFIS 4 Working Group meeting in September 2020 confirmed shelter diversion as one of the top priorities for new features. This builds on previous…

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Training · Ali Ryder · Nov 17, 2020
Simple Training Time Calculator
When delivering just-in-time training - that is, trying to train all your new users before a HIFIS 4 launch, it can be a bit confusing to try to figur…
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Occasionally, I get asked by someone what is the average length of stay for families (as opposed to singles) in their shelter system. On the surface, …

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Let me ask a question: how do you calculate chronic homelessness? We know that the federal definition is 6 months in the past year or 18 months in the…

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HIFIS 4 has lots of great features, but one of the things that is missing is an out-of-the-box way for you to handle programs that sort of operate lik…

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At ACRE Consulting, one of the things we do a lot of is writing reports. We see a lot of different request for reports which vary in complexity from e…

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