Hello,

we also have a requirement for a birthday calendar that shows the next 5 birthdays in the dashboard for example. This would also be very interesting because the birthday itself is entered by the user - or not.

The work on a proper date field is progressing nicely and will be finished in time for the next feature releases of LUP / the Suite respectively, which is planned for end of April / start of May.

I'm not positive about a dedicated birthday macro, since we have a lot on our plate until then. That's why I don't put this particular issue on "in progress" status. But it will be possible to use this date field within the Custom User List macro, so a bunch of use cases will be made possible. Also, the people directory will be able to filter by this new date field.

A possibility for automatic congratulations on a birthday or company anniversary would be interesting.

Possibly as Addon App, in which you can define the profile field for birthday or entry date and then automatically send a definable text to the jubilarian.

At the same time, profile editors should also be able to define a person or group for each employee, who will be informed additionally. For example, the supervisor or an assistant to prepare a gift.

This information should also have a number of days' lead time.

In order for a macro like this to work properly, we will need an improved date field type, that actually stores a date in the database. Although it might look like it in a user's profile, the date field is not really a date.

But we are working on a proper date field type at the moment, because we also need it for filter options in the people directory; so when that's done, we can revisit this macro idea :)

Our Culture team has expressed interested in this kind of functionality. Employees receive gifts for their birthdays & company anniversaries; this feature would make maintaining that list easier, and would enable better engagement around celebrations between employees.