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New Church-wide Options Give You Even More Control

Just finished pushing out some new church-wide options that will give you greater control over some aspects of the site that users have requested the ability to tighten up a bit.

First off is Contributions. Some churches have expressed the desire to internally use the contributions functionality, but not make it available to their congregation. This is now possible by unchecking the “Allow non-admin users to view their own contributions” checkbox. Once this is unchecked, only admin users with Contributions permission will be able to access the Contributions tab.

Next up is Birthdays. Most churches enjoy having the ability to track peoples’ birthdays, but sometimes all those birthdays can overwhelm your calendar, especially if you have a lot of people in your database… you can now uncheck the “Show birthdays in the main calendar” checkbox if you’d like to have Birthdays off by default in your calendar. There is a new “Show birthdays” or “Hide birthdays” button on the side that will toggle showing birthdays according to the site-wide option, so you can easily (and temporarily) show them or hide them whenever you need… perfect for quickly seeing this month’s birthdays, for example. Also, birthdays will still appear in peoples’ individual info cards.

Finally, Ages. Automatically showing peoples’ age if they provide their birth year is a very convenient and slick feature… however, some people are sensitive about their age or your church may simply not want to provide ages to everyone. By unchecking the “Show ages with birthdays to non-admin users” checkbox, only admin users will be able to see peoples’ calculated ages and birth years.

Since these are new options, they are all on by default, to maintain previous behavior. If any of these are tweaks you’ve been itching for, just click your Account Settings link (available to the account owner) and scratch that itch!