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VIMS Product Tutorial Sheet Welcome to VIMS, the Volunteer Integrated Management System by PSVI. VIMS is an extremely powerful tool that will assist you in the managing of your volunteer organization and personnel by providing you with a variety of easy to use functions. VIMS will help free up your time from dealing with paperwork and reports and allow you to focus more on managing, growing and improving your organization. The power behind VIMS is the SQL ([pronounced “see-quel”) database that contains all the information you and your personnel enter into the system. To see the value of VIMS, it’s important to see the database in action by making request for data and see how easy it is to display up to date information. Below is a list of several sample scenario questions, along with instructions of how to find the answers to them using VIMS, which will help you see first hand the power of VIMS! A situation has come up requiring someone who can speak French and you’ve been asked if anyone in your unit can. Let’s see how we’d look that up. Using the administrators page (Officer Cord) click on the “Search” tab, third from the left on the top. With the Search page now opened, scroll down to the Personal Information section to the box marked languages and click on the word French. Now scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the button marked “Search” and let’s see what we find. You receive a phone call at home saying one of your ...