Core Docs - Engagement - Person History Following Event

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Last Modified: 2026-05-01 1:39 PM

The Person History following event is an advanced setting that gives you the option of being notified when there are changes to a person's history, such as a change in their membership or marital status. As with other following event types, you can configure any number of specific events which people can subscribe to and receive notifications for. Let's look at how to set up the Person History following event option.

Let's look at an example of why and how you might use the Person History following event option.

Say you have a care ministry that helps people who are recently widowed. You can use the Person History following event to make sure those working in that care ministry are alerted when a person's marital status changes from 'Married' to 'Widowed'.

To track this change, you would create a new Following Event set with the basic information: Name, Description, Event Type (Person History) and Notification Format. Then you'd set the following options to capture the change in marital status:

These settings will cause a notification to be sent whenever a person's Marital Status field changes from any value to 'Widowed'.

This is just one of many uses for the Person History following event. You can see what a powerful and useful tool it can be.