Groups and Families

Field Service Groups

New Field Service Group

  1. Click Congregation > Groups and Families
  2. Up the top, select Field Service Groups
  3. Click New
  4. Enter the Name of the Field Service Group
New World Scheduler Congregation Groups and Families Field Service Groups 1

Delete Field Service Group

  • Note: The “Unassigned” Field Service Group cannot be deleted or edited. This is an automatic group that represent those without a Field Service Group.
  1. Up the top, select Field Service Groups
  2. Select the Field Service Group to delete
  3. Click Delete

Group Field Service Meetings

Display Field Service Groups

Field Service Groups can be displayed in the following ways:

  1. Print the Field Service Groups and display on the Congregation Information Board
  2. Save the Field Service Groups as a PDF or Image and add as a Congregation Information Board – Congregation Document to the NW Publisher app
  3. Enable the NW Publisher app – App Feature called Show Field Service Group to allow Elders or Group Overseers to see their own Field Service Group and all publishers.

Other Groups

New Other Group

  1. Click Congregation > Groups and Families
  2. Up the top, select Other Groups
  3. Click New
  4. Enter the Name of the Other Group
New World Scheduler Congregation Groups and Families Other Groups

Language Groups

Any Other Group can be converted to a Language Group

  1. Select the Other Group
  2. Tick Language Group
  3. Click Language Group Information
  4. Set the Language
  5. Tick which Meetings the Language Group regularly holds, either Midweek, Weekend or both
  6. Set the Meeting Days and Times and Zoom Meeting information
  7. You can now add Congregation Events, record Meeting Attendance and schedule both the midweek and weekend meetings for the Language Group.
New World Scheduler Language Group Information

Delete Other Group

  1. Up the top, select Other Groups
  2. Select the Other Group to delete
  3. Click Delete

Families

New Family

  1. Click Congregation > Groups and Families
  2. Up the top, select Family
  3. Click New
  4. Enter the Name of the Family
New World Scheduler Congregation Groups and Families Families

Delete Family

  1. Up the top, select Family
  2. Select the Family to delete
  3. Click Delete

Add Persons to a Group or Family

  1. Up the top, select the Group Type
  2. Select a Group or Family
  3. From the Not in Group list, select the persons you wish to add
  4. Click Add
  5. Alternately, use Filter, Group and Search to limit the Not in Group list, then click Add All
  6. Optionally, select a person and mark them as either a Group Overseer, Group Assistant, Captain or Family Head

Remove Persons from a Group or Family

  1. Up the top, select the Group Type
  2. Select a Group or Family
  3. In the list of Persons, select the persons you wish to remove
  4. Click Remove
  5. Alternately, click Remove All

Common Questions and Problems

A new Family is automatically created when you tick Persons > Family Head. If you then un-tick Family Head, you are given the option to remove the Family. If you choose not to remove the family, you may end up with duplicate families.

In this case, simply Delete the duplicates.

When printing or saving Field Service Groups, you may tick Include Field Service Meetings. This shows the field service arrangements for each group.

This data comes from Group Field Service Meetings found in Schedule > Field Service for this week only. You must have Field Service Meetings scheduled for this week and allocated to a Group, or nothing will print.

When printing or saving Field Service Groups, you may tick Include Addresses. This includes addresses of Field Service Meetings.

This data comes from the Location of the Group Field Service Meetings found in Schedule > Field Service for this week. You must have Field Service Meetings scheduled for this week and allocated to a Group, and they must have a Location with an Address, or nothing will print.

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