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Exporting Data from Revelations

Notes on Revelations Export:

Exporting People

1. Navigate to Reports in the top menu bar and select Custom Reports. Click Add New.
2. Title the report "Breeze People 1".
3. Name the report "Breeze People 1" (Name and Title should match for ease of use).
4. First, select the Type of Report as Member Report. A popup will ask if you want to change the Primary Table — choose Yes.
5. From the Available Tables menu choose family_members.
6. From the Fields for Table Selected menu scroll up and select id_member and click Add>>. This will populate the Column Options section which should be defaulted to Column #1. You never need to change what is in Table Assigned, Field Assigned, and Column Header; these are for reference only.
7. Change the Column Width if you so choose. Click Set Column. (You will sometimes get a notification that the column width is too narrow for the Header. Just click Okay.) You will see id_m populate in your text preview.
8. Repeat steps 5-7 but select id_household instead of id_member. You should now have id_m and id_h listed in your first two columns.
9. From the Available Tables menu scroll up and select the top-most option first (most likely Household). It is best practice to eventually go through every table available in order to complete a full export from Revelations.
10. From the Fields for Table Selected menu scroll up and select the top-most option. Click Add>>.
11. Change the Column Width if you so choose. Click Set Column. (You will sometimes get a notification that the column width is too narrow for the Header. Just click Okay.)
12. Repeat steps 9-11 until your Spaces Left field is at or close to 0. See above about the importance of Spaces Left.
13. Click Save in the top left and close the window.
14. You have now completed your first of many reports. Repeat all above steps increasing the Breeze People [Number] by one as you go. Steps 15 and 16 below are for exporting these many reports to Excel readable files.
15. Select your report and click Print. A new window will come up asking for your Destination.
16. Uncheck Screen and check File. While choosing your exact location save as a Comma Delimited File.

Exporting Households:

The same structure and limitations of the People reports apply to the Households report as well. Same way to create the report and same 128 character limit. You will still need to create multiple reports (likely around 8 or so). Navigate through all of the Available Tables and Fields for Table Selected the same way that you did the People reports. Remember that dates and phone numbers need larger column widths than the default.

Exporting Contributions:

1. Navigate to Reports in the top menu bar and select Financial Reports.
2. Scroll down and find the Canned Journal Reprint. Select this.
   
3. Change the beginning journal number to 1 and leave the end journal number as is.
4. Click Print. A new window will come up asking for your Destination.
5. Uncheck Screen and check File. While choosing your exact location save as Comma Delimited File. If unavailable, choose .txt.

Importing Data into Breeze

1. Sign in to your Breeze Account.
2. Click the More tab in the top right.
3. Click Tasks from the dropdown.
4. Click the category on the left that you'd like to import (e.g. People, Giving, Tags, etc).
5. Download and open the template file.
6. Remove the sample data and populate the template file by copy/pasting applicable columns from your Revelations CHMS exported file(s). Be sure to keep the first row of the template file intact.
7. Save file as a .CSV file type.
8. When finished, use the same screen to upload your file to complete the import.