Launch – Help Doc

Getting Started #

Launch is a platform to helps you manage your organization/ project and work with partners and sponsors worldwide. Launch is widely used by NGOs, Mission organizations, Churches and similar organizations.

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Creating a Project Type #

A project type is the set of columns you need to store the details of a project. A project can be one school or a home or a church where you have a group of children or beneficiaries.

For instance your organization may have a school in India, an orphanage in South Africa and another school in Sri Lanka. Each of these schools/ orphanages is to be considered as a project. 

Consider this example below:

In this case, the columns are Child ID, Name, Class, Age.

These columns/ fields can be a compulsory field or optional ones as per your convenience and you also create as many columns as you wish. 

These sets of columns/ fields are collectively called a project type. 

To create a project type you must have administrator privileges of the platform. To create a project type with the same columns as above, click on settings on the sidebar, click on project Type, then Add a Project Type. 

In the first blank that field appears, enter the name of the project, this is purely internal/ organizational purpose and for your identification. 

Let’s call it School Database Template Asia for instance. Use the field below it to acquire details such as name of the city, number of children, year of establishment etc. 

Now to create the columns/ fields to store the details of the children. Click on the check box next to individuals. And then Enter the first column name as illustrated below. Use the Field name to enter the field name and Type of field drop down option to select the Data Type of the detail that is to be stored. 

 Use Select List/ Multi Select List t, to create a drop down set of options for the managers to choose from while entering the details.

Now some of these details change over time, for instance class, Age etc. Some details cannot be changed for instance Name, Child ID.

Click on the Edit tab on the top of the field to add fields that can be changed. Similarly Add field to the Delete Tab to permit data of the selected fields to be Deleted.

To do the above step conveniently, click on Copy all fields when you are on each tab and delete the fields which are not to be edited / deleted. 

Similarly choose fields that can be visible to the sponsors who are not part of the organization but support children or projects under your organization.

Once all the essential fields have been added, click on submit to save the set of columns/ fields. Now your Project Type is ready and can be set to a all the Projects which have  set of columns to store data.

Branches #

You can create multiple branches under your main organization. Your staff can be assigned to various branches to which they will have access to.



For instance, staff with access to the Germany Branch will have access to only the Germany branch and the branches under it.

Staff assigned to Berlin will have access to Berlin, Mitte and Perleberger.

Creating a project #

A project can be one school or a home or a church where you have a group of children or beneficiaries. For instance your organization may have a school in India, an orphanage in South Africa and another school in Sri Lanka. Each of these schools/ orphanages is to be considered as a project. 

To create a project click on Projects on the side bar, click on Add Project on the top right corner of the screen. 

Enter the name of the project, Project number (for internal purpose) and other details asked.



Enable the Replacement Mandatory check box if your project replaces a Child/ candidate with another if they graduate or leave the project.

Go to project on the sidebar to create/ add/ edit data of the individuals. 

Note: Here Sub projects refer to Children/ candidates. Enter the maximum limit of Children/ candidates that you wish to add. (This is optional)

Add Children/ Candidate details #

To add the individual records to a project, click on the Project after choosing projects on the sidebar then click on the Add button to add a new record. 

  And enter the details in the form that appears.