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It’s time for Two Minute Tuesday, Main Sequence’s series of short videos with tips, tricks, and tutorials to help make you a more powerful PCRecruiter user.

In an earlier video, we talked about how to store key search queries on your MyPCR screen, which is the configurable panel for your custom stats and links. Today, we’ll look at doing the same thing with your Rollup Lists. This can be a great way to keep a shortcut to your key records, or to monitor new records as they get added to the system or to specific lists.

Let’s say one of our sourcing experts is on the task of finding Pharmacists in Fargo. We’ve gone to the Rollups area and created a list for her to place the records onto as they’re added, so that they remain neatly grouped for later searching and sorting.

Now that the list is made, we can add a link to it in the Rollup Stats panel on our MyPCR screen. We’ll go to MyPCR and then open the ‘Customize’ option from the Action menu at the upper right. We’ll be going into the Rollup Links option from the sidebar.

We can use the arrow here to select the list. The default view in this selection window will be our most recently viewed Rollups, and since we’ve just created this list, it’s right at the top. If we wanted another list, we could use the ‘Rollups’ panel from the sidebar to search for it by name. Picking a list places the system’s internal code for that Rollup into the box.

The MyPCR screen will display the list by its designated name – Pharma Fargo in this case – but we can give it an alternate description in this area. For example, “Pharmacist Sourcing, ND.”

Every list can contain Names, Companies, and Positions, so we’ll need to specify with the dropdown which of the three record types we want to pay attention to here. In this example, it’ll be Names.

The last option sets the behavior of the record count that will appear next to the link. There are two numbers you can view: “All” and “Unread.” Every record that gets added to a Rollup starts off ‘Unread,’ as indicated by the starburst icon in the Select column. As you change the Stage of the records, or click on the name links to view the records in the lower frame, those records are flagged as having been read, and the date and time when the record was viewed or Stage was changed is logged in the ‘Date Read’ column on this list. These dates are specific to the current Rollup, so any given record may be ‘Read’ in the context of one list and ‘Unread’ on another.

We’ll opt to see ‘All’ and ‘Unread’ counts for this Rollup, and we’ll save the settings.

Now, each time we view the MyPCR screen, the numbers next to the list will show how many Pharmacists are currently on the list, and how many remain unread as of right now. We can then click on the link to view the list.

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Video Transcript

We’re back with a fresh Two Minute Tuesday, Main Sequence’s series of short videos with tips, tricks, and tutorials to help make you a more powerful PCRecruiter user.

In earlier editions, we’ve talked about Rollup Lists, PCR’s versatile tool for grouping names, jobs, or companies for a variety of tasks. We made a brief foray into the customization of Rollups in our video about Call Plans, but this week, we’re going to go back and give that config screen a little more attention.

When we start with a fresh database or a fresh PCRecruiter user account, we get the default setup of columns and features. As with other screens, you’ll find the ‘Configure’ option under the ‘Action’ menu at the upper right corner of any open Rollup List.

The “Layout” panel should be familiar to you if you’ve seen our video about configuring Search Results, but as a quick reminder, the ‘Rollup List Fields’ area lets you set which data columns you want to see in the table and in what order. You can set the primary and secondary sorting order for when the screen initially loads, although clicking the title row of most columns will re-sort the list by that column on the fly. You can set the number of rows per page, and which items appear under the ‘I Want To…” action dropdown for each record in the list. Just remember that going too crazy with the number of columns and rows can slow down the load of the screen.

There are 19 configurable Stages for Rollups, which you can use to track a variety of selection and ranking tasks, such as call lists, sorting candidates by seniority or geography, monitoring marketing and business development processes… anything you can imagine. While it may be tempting to use these Stages to track recruitment and sourcing processes like interviews and job qualifications, actions that relate to a candidate and to a particular job are best left to the Pipeline.

For each Stage, there’s a configuration popup for assigning your own description and a custom icon and color. You can also associate an Activity Type with each Stage, so that a searchable, reportable Activity record is created whenever a name, company, or job is assigned that Stage on any list. The second dropdown is where we’ll set whether that Activity is written automatically, or whether a popup will appear so that the user can write in additional details before saving the Activity.

The other option in the pulldown is to run an Automation Plan when the stage is changed. This can trigger a form letter, copy the person to another list, change their status, add a keyword to their record, and so on. We can choose from previously created automations with the column to the right, or use the ‘Automation’ item in the sidebar to create new plans. We’ve talked about Automation Plans for the Pipeline in earlier videos, and they work the same way here. We give the plan a name, check off and configure the desired actions, and then save.

Once you’ve created your layout and Stages, they’ll be applied to all Rollup lists you view with your user name. When you click the Stage icon, you’ll see your custom Stages, and selecting one will run any automations or write any activities you’ve configured for it.

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