Suggestion: In Directory, show members unit when searching under stake.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 6:11 pm
This has been hashed over many times in the past couple of months in the LDS.org, Directory forum.
When searching for a member in LDS.org Directory when you don't know the unit he resides in, you go to "Stake Information". If that member is in the stake, it returns information on his household, but does not tell you which unit (ward, or branch) he resides in. It would be nice to have the unit name included in the household information that is returned here, so that you know which ward he is in. There are work-arounds. If you are a leader, you can find that by doing a Member Search in the Leadership and Clerk Tools. But that only returns the name, phone number, and unit name. Then you have to go to the directory to see the rest of his information. Non-leaders don't have access to that function. You can request to see a map of the members home ward, but that map does not tell you which ward is mapped and it is tedious to expand the map and try to guess where ward boundaries are (not noted on this map).
Could this apparently simple change be implemented in the next revision of MLS?
Thanks.
veehb -- Stake Executive Secretary
When searching for a member in LDS.org Directory when you don't know the unit he resides in, you go to "Stake Information". If that member is in the stake, it returns information on his household, but does not tell you which unit (ward, or branch) he resides in. It would be nice to have the unit name included in the household information that is returned here, so that you know which ward he is in. There are work-arounds. If you are a leader, you can find that by doing a Member Search in the Leadership and Clerk Tools. But that only returns the name, phone number, and unit name. Then you have to go to the directory to see the rest of his information. Non-leaders don't have access to that function. You can request to see a map of the members home ward, but that map does not tell you which ward is mapped and it is tedious to expand the map and try to guess where ward boundaries are (not noted on this map).
Could this apparently simple change be implemented in the next revision of MLS?
Thanks.
veehb -- Stake Executive Secretary