So many data entry processes in web view are just slower than they are in database view, and as nonprofit orgs continue to try to do more with fewer resources, the time lost to slower processes is a big dea.

And please see the multiple people below who keep saying they are switching back to batching in database view because webview is so inefficient. This is not simply a matter of people resisting change and progress. Look at the specific, detailed examples being provided. This is a matter of critical functionality not yet being implemented in webview.

Completely agree with Karen Diener: "This is a priority over anything related to AI". Exactly!

This is so important. I really find myself wondering if anyone who designed web view ever sat down and tried to do an hours' worth of data entry using it. I am trying to use web view more, but inevitably I work in web view 15 minutes and switch to database view because it is so much faster and efficient.

This would be especially helpful in grid batch. As I'm entering gifts, when I get to the end of one line and tab to the next, I have to CLICK into the constituent name field in order to start searching for a record. Sounds silly, but having to take my hands off the keyboard, find the mouse, position it in the cell, click, and then go back to the keyboard is a big time waster and interrupts the flow of gift processing.

Data entry, for example, in gifts, is truly awful in web view - so much scrolling, clicking through to other screens, minimising giant summaries that spring up as soon as you open gift management, it takes SO much more time and is massively frustrating.

100% agree! As someone who enters data en masse, keyboard shortcuts significantly reduce time spent on the task. Carrying over all the functionalities of DBV gift entry into WB grid batch entry is the only way to keep working efficiently.

PLEASE, please, oh please. I am SO much more inefficient having to use mouse and keyboard. Time and accuracy are of the essence and neither are taken into account with current navigation.

I would love to see this in Webview. Even one shortcut - such as plugging in today's date, or inserting a timestamp in a note- is such a crucial timesaver for me. The more tasks I transition to Webview, the more I feel the loss of shortcuts - it's really impacting my data entry time!

A perfect item for the "Manage and act on your data" swimlane of the fall PUB. This is a priority over anything related to AI.

YES!!! Web view navigation, data entry, and usage are simply much too slow and cumbersome to be effective. We MUST be able to speed this up for web view to be a viable solution for the future.

I completed the first batch in RE nxt yesterday, it took around 3 hours. I had to save and restart the batch (lunch) and found the entries were not saved in the order I entered them. I had 87 entries, and did not know where I was upto - having to go through my spreadsheet one by one to find where the batch was upto was very time consuming. I agree, when entering a user id you can tab across to amount and tab across but then when there are options for types, Ie Other or One Time Payment - selecting O brought up one option and i was having to use the mouse to click on Other as the keyboard arrows or numbers wont move up or down, so mouse is the only option. This makes data entry slow and tedious. We also have warnings and pop up boxes ( prompts) appear on some constituents, and these are set up to tell the administrator to send the donation to another account - and these did not get flagged - and in DB view they do.

So all in all, the batch is done but i cant commit because i do not know which constituents donations need to go into the other account. It took most of the afternoon.

This is absolutely necessary. The time wasted in navigating and clicking in web view creates such an inefficiency that I will be hard pressed to be able to do my job in any timely manner. I can navigate through records and queries in database view without touching the mouse, meanwhile web view easily takes 10x's longer. Database management, clean up, and entry should always be as streamlined as possible.

Data entry in NXT takes so much longer to navigate!

Plus, I HATE having to type in the CFAP in web-view gift entry fields. Give me a drop down so I don't have to memorize or look up sponsorship level names (for example)

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Absolutely! Every time I try to use it because DBV is going away I switch right back because it takes so much longer in WebView!

100% agreed & concur with Erin's comment: This. The amount of time wasted on some of these tasks in webview is astounding.

Effective data entry user interface on the web is essential to productivity in Raiser's Edge NXT and for your customres. Things as simple as not including marital status on the initial record and making us save a record and choose "constituent summary" and "personal info" to enter this information is not good UI. Also, Salutations are difficult to manage in webview and have to similarly be added. It is also very easy to click cancel at the bottom of the screen and delete all the work you've entered when entering constituents online. I am happy to give more feedback on this issue as well. Thanks again for all the consideration and feedback.

This. The amount of time wasted on some of these tasks in webview is astounding.

Agree whole-heartedly with these suggestions. The frustration level has been increasing at a steady rate as we have been trying to transition from database batch entry to webview batch entry. Unfortunately, we have run into major stumbling blocks, particularly, trying to apply payments made by personal checks to recurring gift records so the payments will appear as recurring gift pay-cash; updating that information on each donor's record after a batch is approved is much too time consuming. I don't envy the engineers trying to work out all these issues, but I certainly hope they take note of customer concerns before setting the final timeline for eliminating the use of database.