For how to update a meeting listing, or add or delete a meeting, see the BMLT documentation.

A tip: the BMLT server keeps track of the last 5 changes to each meeting (this is limited to 5 to keep the database size under control). So when making edits to a meeting, make all of your edits, on all of the edit tabs, and then save — if you save repeatedly as you edit, you may lose some of the earlier history.

See the format codes page for a discussion of choosing the formats for a meeting.

NAWS Meeting Database

NA World Services now maintains a database only of virtual and hybrid meetings — in-person meeting listings are left to the different service bodies. Updates to the NAWS database are taken care of by NAWS and the zone — groups and areas don’t need to send updates to NAWS.

History and Backups

If something goes wrong with an update, the server includes a history of the last 5 changes for each meeting. It also has an interface that can show all the changes within a particular date range or for a particular service body (go to https://bmlt.wszf.org/main_server/semantic/, and pick “Get Changes”). We also make weekly backups of the servers and databases, so we can restore the BMLT database from one of those if need be, or make a temporary BMLT server initialized with the data from one of the backups.