View & maintain your members' life-cycle events on this page.  Access the Life-Cycle Events page from the Congregation menu.

Selecting Members List

Members are listed alphabetically by last name.  To view or edit the life-cycle events for a Member, click on the name and the details will be listed to the right of the Members list box.

To Add a Life-Cycle Event

Select the member in the members list box first, then click the Add a new event... button. In the Event Details section select the event type, enter the date and any notes, and click Save.  You can enter Secular Date, Hebrew Date, or both.  The system will automatically convert a date in one calendar to the other provided you enter a full date (month, day and year).  Dates cannot be converted without all 3 parts.  If you don't know the full date, ChaiTrack will accept partial dates too!  Put in what you know...

To Edit a Life-Cycle Event

Select the member in the members list box first, then select the event to edit in the Events list box and click the Edit button, make your changes and click Save.

What's the After Sundown box for?

You may recall that days on the Hebrew calendar begin at sundown, leaving several evening hours of overlap where it's the same day on the secular calendar and the next day on the Hebrew calendar.  If you know the event occurred after sundown, check the box to ensure the correct date conversion between the secular and Hebrew calendars.  If you don't know, don't worry about it.  TRICK:  If you already know both secular and Hebrew dates but aren't sure if the event was before or after sundown, enter the secular date and save the event.  Then check the Hebrew date that ChaiTrack calculates.  If the calculated Hebrew date is one day earlier than your records show, then edit the event and check the After Sundown box and the date should be correct.

How can I add a list of upcoming life-cycle events in my web site?

ChaiTrack supports RSS feeds for embedding lists into your own congregation's web site. Feeds using life-cycle event data include birthdays and anniversaries, and you can specify how far ahead to include, such as birthdays occurring in the next 30 days. See the RSS Feeds section of this user's guide for details.