Catholic Church Records Information Systems (CCRIS)

Abstract

The Catholic Church Records Information System (CCRIS) has been developed for St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church Salalah Oman. It has been created for the purpose of record-keeping, and for fast and easy searching of church records. The Development of the project was started with the consultation with the parish priest about the system requirements of the system this includes how records are being gathered. How manual recording methods of church data is accomplished, as well as the business flow aspects of the church when it comes to church activities such as baptismal, confirmation, marriage and burial services. Online Request of documents is also included in system requirement which allow churchgoers to request certificates through online website of the parish. During the development of the project, consultation with the parish priest was done on how the system will be used. The consultation was also done with church goers who have requested documents to the parish and on how the manual process can be improved with the use of online system. The CCRIS can handle requests online via the church website. Faster and easier access of records has been accomplished and the convenience of requesting documents has been facilitated as well. Hypertext Pre-Processor (PHP) Scripting language has been used in the development and the Model-View-Controller approach has been utilized in coding the software under the Joomla CMS platform. The system is quite helpful for the church where the parish staff and priest can easily search for records and the members of the community can make a request online before going to the church office and collect the document they requested.