Maintain the singing career (previous choirs)

What is this?

The Singing career records which choirs someone has sung in. It belongs to the singer: they maintain it in their profile, and all their choirs see the same list. From these periods, Chorilo calculates the total singing years.

Example:

• 2002 to 2014 in the Liederkranz Musterhausen (entered)
• 2014 to 2022 in the St Cecilia Choir (entered)
• since 2022 in your choir (automatically, from the entry date)

Together this gives the total singing years across all three choirs.

What the list shows

• Entered choirs: previous choirs with their period. Below each one you see who created the entry (the member or a choir) and who last changed it.
• Choirs on Chorilo: appear automatically, with the entry date and, after leaving, the exit date. They can’t be edited. If you change the entry date in the member’s profile, the career changes too.

As a member: maintain your own career

1. Open your Profile. On the web, click your picture at the top right and then Profile; in the app, tap your picture and then Singing career.
2. Choose Add previous choir.
3. Enter the Choir name, From and optionally Until. If Until stays empty, the choir counts as still active.
4. Save.

You change or delete entries via the menu on the row (web) or by tapping them (app). This also applies to entries a choir created.

As a choir: add to a member’s career

1. Click Ensembles in the sidebar, pick your choir and then Members.
2. Click the member and switch to the Roles tab in the side panel.
3. Under Singing career click Add previous choir and save.

Your choir may change all entries. It can only delete entries it created itself. This is handy for members who don’t use Chorilo themselves.

Where the singing years are used

• Membership Anniversaries under Choir settings > Reports: members who reach 25, 40, 50, 55, 60 or 65 singing years in the selected year.
• Anniversaries on the home page.
• Report to the choir association: the career is sent along when you submit. Later changes no longer alter a report that has been sent.

Permission

In the choir, an Administrator maintains the singing career. The Roles tab is visible to everyone who may edit the member. Each member maintains their own career themselves.

Tips

• Ask new members to enter their previous choirs in their profile themselves.
• Also enter short stints, such as a school or university choir. They count towards the singing years.
• Check the entry date in the member’s profile. It is the start of the time in your choir.