You could go to local.churchofjesuschrist.org and see if you can drill down from there. Or, you could try Google the name if your ward and add "site:local.churchofjesuschrist.org" to the end of the search.johnshaw wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2024 11:15 am I've been trying to find ours, is there a way to look them up?
From what I've seen, events are posted from the unit calendar. I'd start my search from there.joeneuman wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2024 9:41 am Where are the settings for this new view? Can we add editors?
This is the site for the building that the church was using to add to google maps. What is interesting to me is the subdomain for the ward websites local.churchofjesuschrist.org takes you ,not to a directory of ward websites, except to a directory of these building websites.jbowne wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2024 5:56 am I did a search on 'shawnee mission ysa ward site:local.churchofjesuschrist.org' and I did get the building website but nothing for the ward website. This was the result: https://local.churchofjesuschrist.org/e ... ley-street
Good Find I fond this on the PDF on that pagegglover wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2024 5:03 pm Someone found this, not sure how they got to this link from the main site but it has good info:
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/ser ... g?lang=eng
https://lcr.churchofjesuschrist.org/act ... page-adminrussellhltn wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2024 12:35 pmFrom what I've seen, events are posted from the unit calendar. I'd start my search from there.joeneuman wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2024 9:41 am Where are the settings for this new view? Can we add editors?
I don't know how much control anyone has over the page beyond the events.
For awareness, when I click on this link, I get the following:
How are stake activities created and posted?
Stake activities are a future consideration. To create a stake activity today, they need to be created on each individual ward calendar.
I don't have that link because it defaults to my home ward, of which I don't have a calling as I serve out of unit in the YSA bishopric (which is under another stake). Soo.. how do I change the ward that the 'My Home' landing page goes to? If there is a way I can swap that to the ward I am actually serving in, it would be interesting to see if the website link shows up.Thanks so much for collecting all that!kristaanncook wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2024 2:53 pm I covered everything I could find on October 22 in this blog site: https://kristacook.blogspot.com/2024/10 ... rived.html
Very good! I sent an email to activitysharing@churchofjesuschrist.org and it created a ticket in their servicenow ticketing system. Hoping it will get reviewed and the feature enabled for our YSA!BrianEdwards wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2024 11:50 amFor awareness, when I click on this link, I get the following:
"Access Denied
Your unit is not participating in the Activity Sharing technology, or you are not authorized to access the Unit Webpage Management portal."
While I'm certain my current calling wouldn't allow me access authorization, I think the bigger issue is that the "Activity Sharing technology" rollout is still fairly limited (from what I understand). And as mentioned previously, the help docs state this is being done Area-by-Area. Ideally the Area would let the Stake who would then let the Wards/Branches know when this was going live for their units -- but we all know sometimes the communication thread gets a bit frayed.
Just sharing to set expectations. I'm sure some members will mistakenly think this is globally available, and get frustrated trying to figure out "why it doesn't work", when it may not have reached their Area/Stake.
If you study the link, it follows a fairly predictable pattern.jbowne wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 12:47 pm
I have done just that. Looked in lcr, got the name of the ward, went to the url of a writing ward webpage and replaced the ward name with ours and no luck.russellhltn wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 1:00 pmIf you study the link, it follows a fairly predictable pattern.jbowne wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 12:47 pm
Or, you could do a google search for the name of the ward and add "site:local.churchofjesuschrist.org" (without the quotes) to the search.
Since you're a leader in the ward, I'd check LCR to see if you can get additional information. It might have to be enabled there before it's actually created.
Love this feature! Been waiting for something like this for a while.
Also, I didn’t know we could customize the Unit Description, Welcome Message, and even add video—super helpful. One minor thing: the meeting times default to "Gospel Study" for the second hour, which is solid, but maybe an option to show Elders Quorum or Relief Society on alternating weeks would be useful? And maybe even contact info for EQ/RS presidents (if we’re not getting too far in the weeds).Keep in mind the primary target for this is the general public who has no idea what "Elders Quorum" or "Relief Society" is.stuartedgington wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2024 11:20 am One minor thing: the meeting times default to "Gospel Study" for the second hour, which is solid, but maybe an option to show Elders Quorum or Relief Society on alternating weeks would be useful?
The Tech Forum is user-to-user discussion an collaborative self help. Just to set the expectations at the proper level, we can discuss these things but that is it. The chance of a decision maker, or anyone involved in the program, to see this discussion is quite low. The best method to get ideas before the decision makers is to use the in-app feedback for mobile apps and the feedback link found at the bottom of most Church web pages for online web based applications.
It's very sad that this group of very willing and intelligent member is so under utilized.jdlessley wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2024 1:49 pmThe Tech Forum is user-to-user discussion an collaborative self help. Just to set the expectations at the proper level, we can discuss these things but that is it. The chance of a decision maker, or anyone involved in the program, to see this discussion is quite low. The best method to get ideas before the decision makers is to use the in-app feedback for mobile apps and the feedback link found at the bottom of most Church web pages for online web based applications.
I'm actually grateful that the Church allows for a vigorous, and fairly open, user community Forum for Tech-related issues. We can disagree (or perhaps agree) with how the Church has organized their official Tech Support and Product Development efforts, but we're all completely on the outside of any of their decision-making process. As clerks, org presidencies, or just random members, it's nice to have a place where we can get a more immediate interaction, find workarounds as well as solutions, and also hopefully help others with our own experiences.joeneuman wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 2:32 pmIt's very sad that this group of very willing and intelligent member is so under utilized.
No doubt, it doesn't change the fact that it is underutilized.BrianEdwards wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 3:09 pmI'm actually grateful that the Church allows for a vigorous, and fairly open, user community Forum for Tech-related issues. We can disagree (or perhaps agree) with how the Church has organized their official Tech Support and Product Development efforts, but we're all completely on the outside of any of their decision-making process. As clerks, org presidencies, or just random members, it's nice to have a place where we can get a more immediate interaction, find workarounds as well as solutions, and also hopefully help others with our own experiences.joeneuman wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 2:32 pmIt's very sad that this group of very willing and intelligent member is so under utilized.
Love everything you are saying. Someone in the bishopric will tell me about an event and I will say I don't think that is a real event. Why? Because it's not on the calandar.kristaanncook wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 3:56 pm
1. Called and enabled a Building Scheduler. Building-only events could then be removed from stake/ward/branch websites including building cleaning and private events that involve only a few.
I don't really see a purpose for the Building Scheduler any more. There is no such a thing as a Building-Only event. Every event must be assigned to a calendar.
2. Customized the locations and rooms feature. If every room in a meetinghouse were able to be scheduled, building scheduling would be simplified and streamlined. The default list only includes the rooms that every meetinghouse shares. This list is horribly inadequate and most stakes/units are still stumbling along with it still.
Any rescore can be added to be reserved, including every room. As and example we added the projector.
3. Get meetings, especially leadership meetings, off of the public calendars and onto the private calendars feature. Ordinary members shouldn't have to read about Ward Council or High Councilman meetings. Only people they affect should have to see them on their calendars.
Very true. I created a custom private calendar for Stake Meetings and I am always moving meetings to this calendar. I also created Private calendars for private activities
4. Use an abbreviation/acronym before each ward event to identify which unit the event belongs to.
EX: 8th
5. Put all the details for events online. Brief descriptions with a handful of words and a bunch of abbreviations and acronyms are a holdover from the paper system when we had limited space.
The video here is a good example of the level of detail that should be put into it. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/ser ... g?lang=eng
I think it makes the most sense to put the ward mission leader in charge of the calendar and the ward website.
There is history with this, the real problem is that we want to move faster than the church wants to move (and needs to move with a global presence) - but mostly it was that The Church Departments get some kind of round-robin ability to have a 'new thing' added to tools, library, etc - Members of the church and Departments of the church have vastly different ideas of what they'd like to see in the app. This is why you look at Tools and see things that just don't make sense while we all still do so many things manually that the church could easily automate only there is no church department that advocates for those things. Thus has it been and thus shall it always be. We had, at one time, the greatest programmers in the world volunteering on these projects and the church ran them off.joeneuman wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 5:26 pmNo doubt, it doesn't change the fact that it is underutilized.BrianEdwards wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 3:09 pmI'm actually grateful that the Church allows for a vigorous, and fairly open, user community Forum for Tech-related issues. We can disagree (or perhaps agree) with how the Church has organized their official Tech Support and Product Development efforts, but we're all completely on the outside of any of their decision-making process. As clerks, org presidencies, or just random members, it's nice to have a place where we can get a more immediate interaction, find workarounds as well as solutions, and also hopefully help others with our own experiences.joeneuman wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 2:32 pmIt's very sad that this group of very willing and intelligent member is so under utilized.
The Building Scheduler is an old title that operated much differently in the past. The new calling and responsibilities are essential and unique to the digital calendaring system working properly. See: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/too ... s?lang=engjoeneuman wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 5:44 pmLove everything you are saying. Someone in the bishopric will tell me about an event and I will say I don't think that is a real event. Why? Because it's not on the calandar.kristaanncook wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 3:56 pm
1. Called and enabled a Building Scheduler. Building-only events could then be removed from stake/ward/branch websites including building cleaning and private events that involve only a few.
I don't really see a purpose for the Building Scheduler any more. There is no such a thing as a Building-Only event. Every event must be assigned to a calendar.
2. Customized the locations and rooms feature. If every room in a meetinghouse were able to be scheduled, building scheduling would be simplified and streamlined. The default list only includes the rooms that every meetinghouse shares. This list is horribly inadequate and most stakes/units are still stumbling along with it still.
Any rescore can be added to be reserved, including every room. As and example we added the projector.
3. Get meetings, especially leadership meetings, off of the public calendars and onto the private calendars feature. Ordinary members shouldn't have to read about Ward Council or High Councilman meetings. Only people they affect should have to see them on their calendars.
Very true. I created a custom private calendar for Stake Meetings and I am always moving meetings to this calendar. I also created Private calendars for private activities
4. Use an abbreviation/acronym before each ward event to identify which unit the event belongs to.
EX: 8th
5. Put all the details for events online. Brief descriptions with a handful of words and a bunch of abbreviations and acronyms are a holdover from the paper system when we had limited space.
The video here is a good example of the level of detail that should be put into it. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/ser ... g?lang=eng
I think it makes the most sense to put the ward mission leader in charge of the calendar and the ward website.
I don't see where you are getting that impression. Even the help article you link to specifically states; "Other ward calendar administrators can be assigned by an existing ward calendar administrator, but this should be performed with care." The capability to add administrators, the ones who manage calendars, is there. The system has been set to adapt to local needs. The limitation to add administrators has been pared down to just standard callings. In the past, before Calendar 4.0, administrators could be added by using either by calling or by name.kristaanncook wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 8:26 am Actually, who is in charge of managing the calendars is not something you can choose. According to Church guidelines, they want it to remain with “default administrators”. See: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/too ... s?lang=eng
I didn't say it couldn't be done, but that it shouldn't. Also from the link:jdlessley wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 12:03 pmI don't see where you are getting that impression. Even the help article you link to specifically states; "Other ward calendar administrators can be assigned by an existing ward calendar administrator, but this should be performed with care." The capability to add administrators, the ones who manage calendars, is there. The system has been set to adapt to local needs. The limitation to add administrators has been pared down to just standard callings. In the past, before Calendar 4.0, administrators could be added by using either by calling or by name.kristaanncook wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 8:26 am Actually, who is in charge of managing the calendars is not something you can choose. According to Church guidelines, they want it to remain with “default administrators”. See: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/too ... s?lang=eng
The issue was designating the "ward mission leader" to be in charge of the calendar which isn't possible unless you make him a unit website administrator manually.Managing Ward Administrators
Warning: Manually adding or removing administrators should be a rare occurrence.
Default administrators are administrators by virtue of their callings and cannot be removed. Normally, retaining the default list of callings is appropriate. There may be an occasion when you want to add an administrator, such as adding a member to oversee the ward calendars. Do not add ward administrators so they can edit all ward calendars; instead, give them editor rights to individual ward calendars.
If I had my way, it would have been renamed to "Building Scheduler Supervisor", since they are no longer part of most of the day-to-day stuff.kristaanncook wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 8:26 am The Building Scheduler is an old title that operated much differently in the past.
How do you decide where to draw the line when creating calendars separate calendars for leadership meetings? Do you put a stake leadership meeting for all ward council members on the same calendar as a stake meeting for bishops, or a stake meeting for emergency preparedness specialists, or a high council meeting? Similarly, where do you draw the line on ward calendars between different groups – do you have separate calendars for each Sunday school class, or each priesthood quorum, or single adults, or Relief Society sisters?kristaanncook wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 3:56 pm 3. Get meetings, especially leadership meetings, off of the public calendars and onto the private calendars feature. Ordinary members shouldn't have to read about Ward Council or High Councilman meetings. Only people they affect should have to see them on their calendars.
Wouldn't each ward have their own calendars, in which case using ward prefixes for each event would be redundant?kristaanncook wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 3:56 pm 4. Use an abbreviation/acronym before each ward event to identify which unit the event belongs to.
A couple of guesses:taitino wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2025 10:22 pm When I select "Preview" I get the following message:
"Error creating preview. Please refresh and try again."
Has anyone had this issue? Currently every unit in our stake is using the tool except for our branch. Originally we had difficulty getting access to the site. Now, we can prefill our activities but still are not able to preview and publish.
Any insights?
The first website is for your ward. The second one is for your building. I'm not sure who has edit rights to that. Perhaps it's the stake person on the take communicationbwestover wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:17 pm Does anyone know how to get editing power for the Ward websites? I was called to manage the website and tech communications in my Ward. Also, what I am seeing for these websites, there is essentially two? One specific to the Wards and one that is informational only from a "Google look-up" stand point. Here is the examples:
Specific Ward Website:
https://local.churchofjesuschrist.org/e ... bal|global
Google Look-up Website:
https://local.churchofjesuschrist.org/e ... edium=yext
Note that technology specialist, nor the calling that used to me ward website is not on that list. The wording suggests all have access, but the bishop decides who is "point".Which callings can create an activity on the Church calendar?
The bishop assigns a brother or sister to coordinate the ward activity web page. He may select someone on the ward council, a ward mission leader, a ward missionary, a counselor or secretary in one of the ward organizations, ward executive secretary, ward clerk, or an assistant ward clerk (note that a new or custom calling should not be created for this assignment).
taitino wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2025 10:22 pm I have been trying for the past few weeks to post activities to our ward(branch) website. I have filled out the entire activity, including the "This is a Public Event" option.
When I select "Preview" I get the following message:
"Error creating preview. Please refresh and try again."
Has anyone had this issue? Currently every unit in our stake is using the tool except for our branch. Originally we had difficulty getting access to the site. Now, we can prefill our activities but still are not able to preview and publish.
Any insights?
Calendar administrators are also ward website administrators.bwestover wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:17 pm Does anyone know how to get editing power for the Ward websites? I was called to manage the website and tech communications in my Ward. Also, what I am seeing for these websites, there is essentially two? One specific to the Wards and one that is informational only from a "Google look-up" stand point. Here is the examples:
Specific Ward Website:
https://local.churchofjesuschrist.org/e ... bal|global
Google Look-up Website:
https://local.churchofjesuschrist.org/e ... edium=yext
Nice!tclubb wrote: Sun Mar 16, 2025 6:54 pm We created a how to guide that provides step by step instructions on viewing and modifying your ward website. Feel free to use it for your units.
Your ward clerk needs to update the meeting times in Leader and Clerk Resources (LCR) > Reports > Unit Settings.catherinemurray wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 6:57 pm Found ours but the Sunday service are incorrect. Ours are 11am to 1pm. How do we get this changed
That's a list of ward calendar administrators. They can push a scheduled event to the page. Management of the actual page is via LCR, but it's less clear who has access. The instructions doesn't seem to differentiate between being able to push calendar events to the page and changing the page itself. What we have is from a document found on Activity Sharing:kristaanncook wrote: Sat Mar 29, 2025 11:19 am Those with official access: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/too ... s?lang=eng
Coordinating the Ward Activity Web Page
The bishop assigns a brother or sister to coordinate the ward activity web page. He may select someone on the ward council, a ward mission leader, a ward missionary, a counselor or secretary in one of the ward organizations, the ward executive secretary, the ward clerk, or an assistant ward clerk (note that a new calling should not be created for this assignment).
From the link you posted it looks like you're talking about the St George 17th Ward. If that is so it looks like the page has the same time as the system of record (11:30). So either your clerk didn't change it or the change has made it all the way thru. I just checked and the time for that unit was lasted changed back in January.catherinemurray wrote: Sat Mar 29, 2025 7:18 am Our ward clerk updated times BUT unit website still the same
The "in progress" icon is information to let you know the page is in progress and it will not be publicly displayed until the Publish button is clicked. The icon also means "to continue press ... ". On the left of the page on that bar is the Continue Editing link, the other action option.ddoug1 wrote: Tue Sep 16, 2025 8:18 pm In the Preview page, to the left of the publish button are two circular arrows.
Nothing seems to happen when I hover or if I click on the arrows.
Anybody know what they do or what they are for?