Add a name
Go to Yahrzeits and press Add a name. Give the English name, the Hebrew name and the father's Hebrew name (the board writes "יעקב בן משה ז״ל"), and the Date of passing: as a Regular date or a Hebrew date. If the passing was after sunset, tick After sunset: the yahrzeit is then the next Hebrew day.
- First yahrzeit on the burial date, for the custom of keeping the first yahrzeit by the date of burial.
- Dedicated by: who dedicated the plaque, shown under the name if the board shows it.
- Show on yahrzeit boards: untick to keep a name on the list but off the screens.
Shulboard works out each yahrzeit every year from the Hebrew date, including Adar in a leap year and the months that are 29 days some years and 30 in others.
Import a list
Import from a spreadsheet opens Import names: choose a file, or paste rows from Excel or Google Sheets. Check the rows it found, then Add them.
Many at once
Tick names (Select all, Clear) to Hide from boards, Show on boards or Delete them together. Each can be undone. Deleted names wait 30 days in Recently deleted.
The yahrzeit board
Make one from Boards, New board, Yahrzeit board, or add the Yahrzeit board item to any board. Each name is on its own plaque, in English and Hebrew; this week's yahrzeits are lit, and can sit in a panel in the middle.
- Look, with Change look: Cast bronze, Mahogany and gold, Mahogany and brass, Mahogany register, Oak and brass, Dark walnut and bronze, Black walnut register, Mounted bronze, Black marble, Clear glass. Customise changes the plaques, colours, wall and fonts.
- Over the wall: the pasuk נר ה׳ נשמת אדם, with a subheader in English or Hebrew if you want one.
- When they don't all fit: Turn to the next few, Scroll slowly, or Show only what fits (nearest yahrzeits first, or most recently passed).
- Fill the wall with plaques fills the rest of the wall with blank plaques.