As an administrator with possibly hundreds of site users, you can't keep up with all the changes made in Realm. The Change Log tracks these activities and presents them in a sortable list.

You must be an administrator to view the change log. See Responsibilities for more information.

This change log displays changes made to all profiles and other areas. To view changes made to a specific person's profile, see View Changes to a Specific Profile.

You don't have to turn on anything in order for the change log to work. It is always in the background, watching your site and logging the changes.

Log entries are deleted from your data automatically after 120 days.

The following types of changes and actions are noted in the change log:

• Communication — See additions, updates, and deletions to announcements.

• Constant Contact — See when accounts are added or removed, when sync is enabled or disabled, and when lists are added, updated, or replaced.
• Contributions — See when a posted or processed bath or gift is updated, or when an administrator creates a one-time or recurring gift on behalf of a contributor.
• Check-In — See updated check-ins, updated and deleted kiosks, and updated and deleted badges.
• Events/Registrations
  • Events — See when events are added, updated, canceled or deleted. You can also see single cancellations as well as when an entire series is canceled.
  • Event Payments — See when event payments are edited or deleted.
  • Registrations — See when an individual's registration is canceled.
  • Groups — See when groups are added, reactivated, deactivated, moved, updated or deleted.
  • Location — See when locations used for events are added, updated or deleted.
  • Ministry Area — See when a ministry area is added, updated, or deleted.
• Pathways — See when existing pathways and pathway steps are deleted. See when pathway participants are added, reinstated, moved, edited, or deleted from a pathway. This includes when people are added through queries, dashboards, etc.
• People
  • Individual — See when individuals and families are added, edited, deleted, deactivated, reactivated, merged, marked as deceased, or have privacy changes. You may also see sacrament and personnel migrations.
  • Personnel — See when profiles are marked as personnel, or when personnel are added, edited, or deleted.
  • User — See when users are added, edited, or deleted.
  • Notes — See when notes are made private or public, updated, or deleted.
  • Sign-Up Requests — See when sign-up requests are approved or denied.
  • Pending Invites — See when pending invites are deleted.
• Promotion — See when individuals are promoted.
• Refresh Websites — See when websites are deleted.
• Schedules — See additions, updates, and deletions in schedules.
• Security & Privacy — See when users make updates to the privacy section of an individual's profile.

For better security, we ask that passwords meet certain conditions.

In order to provide account security, your Realm password must:

• Be 8 or more characters long. There is no maximum limit on length. The longer a password is, the more secure it is. Each additional character makes it exponentially harder to crack.
• Meet 3 of the following additional requirements:
  • Contain at least 1 uppercase character.
  • Contain at least 1 lowercase character.
  • Contain at least 1 symbol (!,@,#,$,%,^, and so on).
  • Contain at least 1 number.
  • Contain 15 or more characters.

Your password cannot:

• Contain any 3-or-more-character sequence from your username or email. If, for instance, your username is JeffAnderson@example.com, your password could not contain "jeff" or "ander".
• Include 3 or more repeating characters (such as 222).
• Include 3 or more characters in sequence (such as 123, 321, or abc).

Registered users of your Realm site can view and register their privacy settings. But there might be times when you need to do it for them.

When you change an individual's privacy settings, he or she will be notified automatically by email. Changes are also recorded in the Customization History section of the Privacy page. In order to provide the most current information, the Customization History section displays privacy changes from the past 12 months.

When you change someone's profile privacy, Realm automatically sends them an email listing the new settings. (A popup message will remind you of this.)

Cookies are small text files most web sites create on your computer to "remember" your visit. They keep you from having to constantly sign in to the site, or keep the site from having to request your name, password, etc, every time you want to do something.

For comparison, imagine you had no ability to remember names. You would have to request someone's name many times during a long conversation. But if you wrote it down, you could just consult your note each time. The computers that serve up web pages have no human memory. If they don't record some basic information about you each time you log in, they won't remember who you are or what you were working on.

After a predetermined amount of time, most cookies are deleted by your computer. At that time, you will need to sign in again to Realm.

On the website and in the Realm mobile apps, cookies last 30 days, and continually renews as long as you are active on the site or in the app.

You can view our company's policy on cookies and related issues at any time. Click your name in the upper-right corner, and select the Privacy link at the bottom of the menu.