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. For more information, see Responsibilities.

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 updates are noted in the change log:

• Announcements—Additions, updates, and deletions.
• Realm Users—Any updates to the name, email, or roles of a user with responsibilities.
• Personnel—When profiles are marked as personnel.
• Congregants—When individuals or families are added, merged, deleted, marked inactive, marked active, or marked deceased. When an individual logs in and deletes his or her own account. When someone's account email (used to log in only) is changed, either by themselves or an administrator.
• Member Status—When a member or parishioner status' security or privacy settings, such as starting a chat or seeing the directory, others' contact/personal info, and children's profiles, are updated.
• Ministry Areas—When any ministry area is added, deleted, or updated.
• Locations—When locations used for events are added, deleted, or updated.
• Groups—When any group is added, deleted, or updated. When group posts or comments are deleted. When an event is canceled, the entire series of an event–not just a single occurrence.
• Contributions—When a posted or processed batch or gift is updated. When an administrator creates a one-time or recurring gift on behalf of a contributor.
• Pathways—When a pathway or step is deleted. When a person is marked complete, deleted from a pathway, moved to a different pathway, or moved to a different step. When people are added to a pathway, either singly or in mass (through queries, dashboards, etc.). When people are reinstated for a pathway.
• Events—When an event is deleted. When an individual's registration for an event is canceled.
• Privacy—When users make changes to the privacy settings for individuals' profiles.
• Personnel Migration—When personnel profiles are updated and when profiles could not be updated due to an error. Click the link to see the results, and review the printed report for details.

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.

• In the Realm mobile apps, cookies last 2 weeks, but continuously renew for as long as you are active in the apps.
• On the Realm website, the main session cookie lasts 24 hours, but continually renews as long as you are active on the site.

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.