Quick Start Guide - Tricks and Tips

Printable Address Book

You can download the church address book in Adobe PDF format to print out and keep by the telephone.  Click the Printable Version link at the top of the page and select from the range of formats available before clicking the download button.  Note: you will need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to open these files.

Download the Address Book to Outlook or Outlook Express

You can download the entire online address book for your church into Microsoft® Outlook or Outlook Express as follows:

• Click on the address book option from the home menu.
• The church address book will be displayed. Click on the Advanced Options link at the top of the page to display the additional options.
• Click on the arrow next to Choose format and select Export to file:
• Click on the All link.

A link to the address book in a text format will be displayed along with instructions on how to download and install the file.

Send Birthday Greetings to Other Members

You can send a personal message to another member on their birthday as follows:

• Select the calendar option from the home menu.
• Click on the arrow next to show calendar and select show birthdays.
• A list of birthdays for the current month will be displayed – the current date is highlighted.
• Click on the member you wish to send birthday greetings to (bear in mind that the greeting will be sent immediately).
• A window will open with the member name at the top and a space to enter your greeting.
  Once the greeting is complete click the Send button.

Searching

The search tool (found just below the menu bar on every page) can be used to search articles, events and forums within your organisation's web site. It can also be used to search for articles, events and forums on other web sites across the church:insight network.

Site Search – search articles, events and forum discussions by entering keywords in the search box below the menu bar and clicking the button.

Further search options are displayed once a site search has been submitted. On the site search results page you can choose from one of the following additional options:

Related sites – searches articles, events and forum discussion from related churches using the church:insight service – these may be other churches in your stream, denomination or geographical location.

Church:insight network – searches articles, events and forum discussions right across the church:insight network.

• Click the Search button to begin the search.

Once the search is complete you can sort the results by relevance, title, author, date or web site.

Parental Lock

Childlock gives parents the ability to prevent children in your family from altering certain settings in the my profile area.  When childlock is enabled any child under 16 in the same family will no longer be able to edit the profile of any other member of your family, and they will not be able to alter the privacy settings or date of birth options in their own profile. 

A valid date of birth must be entered for all members of the family in order to successfully use the childlock feature.

You can enable the childlock from the family details section of my profile (found under the my area menu) .  By default this facility is switched off.