End or Inactivate a Group
To indicate that a group has stopped meeting, you can set an End Date on the Group record.
Note: If you need to inactivate multiple groups, you can mass update the End Date on selected records.
- Go to Groups, and open the group's record.
- Click Edit Record.
- Enter the End Date.
- If your church tracks why a group no longer meets, select the Reason Ended.
- If this group should no longer display online (for example, in Group Finder or My Groups), set Available Online to No.
- Click Save.
When you add an End Date for the first time, the End Date Group Participant trigger will automatically add an End Date to all Group Participant records for the group. If you change the End Date later, no changes will be made to existing or new Group Participant records.
Clean data is happy data! There is a view on the Group Participants page that displays any records you should inactivate. This is either because they are currently in a group that has been end dated or because the Contact record of the person in the group is now Inactive or Deceased.