2.
Set your personal privacy preferences.
3.
Upload your family and individual pictures for our directory
Instructions
for resizing your digital pictures for Windows XP users:
Access ACS Overview
Access
How to Register/Log In
The website can be accessed from the home page at http://www.graceslo.org via a link in the lower right page area titled “Access & Manage Your Personal Information”:
Clicking on this will take you to the following secure
website address: https://secure.accessacs.com/access/memberlogin.aspx?sn=110828.
If you access our online church management system for the first time, click on the link “Get your username and password” on the right side of the screen.
After entering the required information into the registration form click on the “Register” button.
IMPORTANT
NOTE: Your First Name, Last Name and e-mail address MUST match with our
database or you will not be given an account.
Please check the latest church directory if you are not sure which
e-mail address you gave us. If you do
not have an e-mail address on file, then you will need to e-mail us this
information to memberinfo@graceslo.org. Shortly after you will receive an E-mail with
your user name and password. Enter your
user name and password in the “Registered Users Sign In Here” form and click
the “Sign In” button. After your first successful log in, you will be asked to
change your password.
3 Things to Do When You Login
1. Update your information
You can manage your personal information, such as your
address and phone number. When you are changing your information, the changes
are not directly applied to the records, but you are submitting a request to
change information. After the request is approved by a
To view or update your information, click the “My Profile” tab in the top navigation bar.
Your primary/family address, phone number and E-mail address are displayed on the top of the page, followed personal information, alternate addresses, phone numbers and E-mail addresses. At the bottom of the page you can view events you are currently registered for as well as Small Groups you participate in. A list of your family members concludes the information page.
To update your personal information, click the “Edit”-link on the top right of the page, next to your name. If you have already made some changes to your information this link can also be called “Review Changes”. Enter changes to your personal information directly in the form and click the “Submit” button in the top right corner.
When in the edit mode, you can click on an existing address to change it. This will open a form with the address information. After entering the correct information click on the “Submit” button in the lower right corner. To add an additional address click on the link “Add Address” and enter all required information into the form followed by clicking the “Submit” button.
When in the edit mode, you can click on an existing phone number, E-Mail address, or other fields such as Date Baptized or Wedding Anniversary, to change it. After entering the correct information click on the “Submit”button in the lower right corner.
Remember to click the “Submit” button at the top right corner of the personal information page, to submit your request to make changes to your information.
2. Set your personal privacy preferences
You can choose to not have your information displayed in the online directory. To do so click on the “My Profile” tab in the top navigation bar and select the link “My Personal Preferences” in the left navigation bar. Unselect the appropriate boxes (see screenshot on the right) if you do not want you information available to other users and click the “Save” button on the lower right.
To change your password navigate to the “My Profile” tab and click on the link “My password” in the left navigation bar. Enter your current password, and your new password twice in the form and press the “Save” button on the left below the form.
3. Upload your family and individual pictures for our directory
You can upload your individual and family pictures through the website. After you clicked the “Edit”-link in the “My Profile” tab (or “Review Changes” link, if you have already made changes to your information), click on the “Picture” link to add an individual picture or on the “Family” link to add a family picture. In both cases click the “Browse” button and select the picture you would like to upload from your home computer, click “Open” followed by the “Save” button. Depending on the size of the picture, this step can take a while.
Important
Note: The IDEAL picture size is only
about 180X150 pixels. Please pre-crop the picture using any picture editor to
those dimensions to prevent distorting when you upload it.
Instructions for resizing your digital pictures for Windows XP users:
Follow these steps
if you are using Windows XP and also have Office 2003 installed. There are a number of photo editing solutions
available free online to choose from as well.
(See also Google’s Picasa Photo Editing software, free to download at http://picasa.google.com/).
Right click on your
family or individual photo and select Edit (see below).
Then select RESIZE
from the right hand side of the screen:
Key in the new size
of 180 X 150 and click OK.
Save this file and
then upload it into
NOTE: These
directions will vary depending on the photo editing software you use and the type
of personal computer you have (Windows, iMac, etc.).
Print Directory
To view or print a directory, click the “Directories” tab in the top navigation bar. You can choose between two Directory types: individual and family. The individual directory has an entry for each individual family member, whereas the family has only one entry for the entire family. In the Directory Selection you can choose between Online Directory, which shows the primary address, phone number and E-mail address, and Pictorial Directory, which additionally includes pictures uploaded into our system. After you the type and kind of directory click the “Preview” button, this will open the page in an Adobe Acrobat Reader screen. You can choose “Print” from the menu bar of this screen to print the generated directory.
Register for Events online
You can access the available events either viewing the
upcoming events from with the
Registration is performed by clicking More Info and following the specific registration processes. We currently accept MasterCard and VISA as well as offline payments.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is my user name and password?
a. Your user name is your first name plus your last name, with NO spaces. i.e. MickeyMouse, not Mickey Mouse.. It is not case sensitive. Your password is e-mailed to you directly when you register online.
2. How secure is my data?
a. The
confidentiality of your data is our utmost priority. Only the data that we print in our existing
church directory is available online.
Furthermore, you can still “opt out” of the online system by setting
your personal profile, or by notifying us at memberinfo@graceslo.org. Our software provider is