Beta Directory recommendations
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:25 am
I noticed the previews of the beta showed that each piece of information had it's own combo box to choose privacy settings. I think those privacy settings--not the information--needs to be seen by the leaders and administrators. As a member with default settings, I'd also like to know if I shouldn't be giving out information to other ward members after receiving that information from a leader.
We have a lot of old-school people in our ward, so our RS has always printed a directory. If a leader prints the directory, it will include everything she has permissions to see--even if the member has asked that only the top leaders should see it. I think that is a very big problem for members that really don't want their information given to the whole ward.
One other point is that I am the ward newsletter editor. The RS President gives me a list of birthdays printed from the MLS for me to put in the newsletter. A former RS President marked one off and said not to publish that one. We have a new presidency, so I could be publishing information without knowing it shouldn't be published. The Young Women and Primary also send me birthday information for the children/youth and the leaders/teachers.
We have very few people that know anything about their lds accounts. Every month I hunt down the right person for information about events. The callings aren't updated uniformly. Sometimes, especially with custom callings both the released person and newly called person are listed as having that calling but with the calling title worded slightly differently. Many times the person who posted an event on the calendar is no longer in that calling, or a tech-savy person posted it on behalf of a computer-illiterate leader. Frequently, the event has been cancelled or changed, but the person in charge of it didn't even know the event had been posted to the calendar.
Note: Before I logged into my account, I posted on the site https://tech.lds.org/blog/554-directory ... ta-testing and I'm unable to delete it. I believe this is the more appropriate thread.
We have a lot of old-school people in our ward, so our RS has always printed a directory. If a leader prints the directory, it will include everything she has permissions to see--even if the member has asked that only the top leaders should see it. I think that is a very big problem for members that really don't want their information given to the whole ward.
One other point is that I am the ward newsletter editor. The RS President gives me a list of birthdays printed from the MLS for me to put in the newsletter. A former RS President marked one off and said not to publish that one. We have a new presidency, so I could be publishing information without knowing it shouldn't be published. The Young Women and Primary also send me birthday information for the children/youth and the leaders/teachers.
We have very few people that know anything about their lds accounts. Every month I hunt down the right person for information about events. The callings aren't updated uniformly. Sometimes, especially with custom callings both the released person and newly called person are listed as having that calling but with the calling title worded slightly differently. Many times the person who posted an event on the calendar is no longer in that calling, or a tech-savy person posted it on behalf of a computer-illiterate leader. Frequently, the event has been cancelled or changed, but the person in charge of it didn't even know the event had been posted to the calendar.
Note: Before I logged into my account, I posted on the site https://tech.lds.org/blog/554-directory ... ta-testing and I'm unable to delete it. I believe this is the more appropriate thread.