The Custom lists feature makes it possible to group children or staff together by different information and to save it as a PDF. For example, you can use Custom lists to create a list of staff members and their qualifications or access a preset telephone list.

To find Custom lists

To create a new list, click on Add list and choose whether this is to be a list of children or staff by selecting Children or Staff from the drop-down menu. Enter a title for the list in the top, left-hand corner

You can add Filters to your list to group together children or staff that share information. Choose from the standard filters such as their Status, their assigned Room, or whether they are currently Signed in. You can add more filters by clicking on Add filter, then selecting whether the list should show Yes, No or Unknown for each one in the dropdown menus that appear at the top.

You can add columns to the list by clicking Columns at the top. Here you can also remove default existing columns by unchecking the boxes next to the column name on the left. After you have selected which columns to be shown, click on the Save button.

Columns will show information that can be found on a child or staff members profile in the About or Family tabs including Permissions (for children), Contact information, Health information, Key person, amongst other things like a child's Language, Special notes or Start date.

To save your list, just click on Save in the top right corner. You can download your list as an Excel or CSV file by clicking on the downward arrow icon and you can print (or save your list as a PDF) by clicking on the printer icon

For example, you may want to make a list of staff by what qualifications they have. First of all, you'd click on Add list and select Staff from the drop-down menu. Next, choose the information you want to show in the list by clicking on Columns. Here you'd click Name (to show the member of staff's name) and Qualifications.

Next, you'd click on Filters and select the qualifications you want to filter by (as below) and filter to only show Current staff.

Now you have a list of staff and their qualifications.

You'll notice there are two pre-set lists in your Custom lists tab that Famly has created. There's a preset telephone list, as well as the evacuation list (updating in real-time).