This article announces a change in how to display children in the directory.
First, some background — please read this previous article on a few changes that preceded this one.
Now, for this change. Until now, if you wanted to list children in the directory, you would select their roles, along with adults and parents. With that choice, children would appear if they had a cell phone or email. If they had neither, their names would not appear. Moreover, if you wanted to show children’s names, but omit the cell and email, you would have to individually check that option per child.
It’s simpler now. Basically, you can follow two rules. Rule one — the Role within family determines whose names appear with their personal contact information. Rule two — by adding the phrase {children} to the letter template for the Directory, you’ll display children in the directory. First names only, as a list.
Here’s a short (3m, 36s) video showing this change in action.
![How to add a list of children within the directory.](https://i0.wp.com/blog.shalomcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/children_in_directory.png?resize=620%2C188&ssl=1)