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Features

  1. User access
    The website defines four levels of access:
    • Public
    • Volunteer
    • Administrator
    • Superuser

  2. Volunteer functions
    After a volunteer has registered and logged in they can:
    • Update their personal details and skills.
    • View current needs matching their skills.
    • Express interest in a current client need.
    • View their current assignments.

  3. Administrator functions
    After an approved administrator has logged in they can:
    • Create or update a volunteer and their skills.
    • Create or update a client and their needs.
    • Search for volunteers using a wide range of search criteria.
    • Search for clients using a wide range of search criteria.
    • Search for volunteers with a skill that matches a client need.
    • Search for clients with a need that matches a volunteer skill.
    • Assign a client need to a volunteer.
    • Assign a volunteer skill to a client.
    • Search for assignments
    • Approve an assignment.
    • Close an assignment.
    • Show the assignment history of a volunteer.
    • Show the location of client needs near a volunteer
    • Show the location of volunteer skills near a client.

  4. Superuser functions
    After the superuser has logged in they can:
    • Create or update administrators (by district).
    • Create or update service categories.
    • Create or update languages and ethnicities.
    • Update the content of the public web pages.

  5. Other features
    • The result of any search can be exported to a Spreadsheet.
    • The result of a client or volunteer search can be exported to a GIS system.


History

happy2help.co.nz was initially developed by Netrix for the Canterbury Primary Pandemic Group to help manage the Swine Flu pandemic.

The Group recognised that communities that are organised and prepared come through a pandemic in the best shape. Volunteers are an important part of this and can help in many ways, ranging from administration jobs to delivering meals and medicines and providing care in the home.



Technologies

happy2help.co.nz has been designed by a group of business and technical professionals to be secure, robust and extensible.

The website is built and runs on the latest Microsoft products. These include Windows Server, IIS, C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server. These industrial strength products and tools are widely used by some of the largest organisations in the world.



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