Answers.Body: <p>There is an extension called "<a href="https://civicrm.org/extensions/birthdays-month" rel="nofollow">Birthdays By Month</a>" which may prove helpful:</p>
  
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    <p>BIRTHDAYS BY MONTH</p>
    
    <p>This extension lets you look up contacts that have a birthday on a
    given month. Once installed access it at ~/civicrm/birthdays-by-month.
    Author:  S. Lee Gooding </p>
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Answers.Text: I have the same requirement. How do I go about installing the Birthday's by Month extension on 4.7? I dont see this extension available in the list of extensions in CiviCRM. Our organization is using Wordpress.
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Answers.Text: @Sudesh You can download the extension into your [extension directory](https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/16788/how-can-i-locate-my-extension-directory) and try to enable it.
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Answers.Body: <p>I needed to send birthday messages to contacts, but Civi's Birthdate field, as you say OP, looks only at the current year, despite the fancy relational date ranges (i.e. Today, Tomorrow, Last Year, etc.). Useless.</p>
  <p>Rather than adding an extension, I used custom fields to create a work around in Civi.</p>
  <p>I added two custom fields: Birthday Day Number; &amp; Birthday Month Number. I have these set as number fields, but really any qualitative field that can express values in the ranges 1-31 and 1-12 works (e.g. you could use a number field and a text field using the names of months, but this has a higher chance to introduce user error in inputting data when compared to numbers imo: e.g. one user writes Feb, another writes Fev, another writes February, etc.).</p>
  <p>If you then export the birthdate fields and process so that you get the day and month as isolated columns in a csv, you can import and add those fields to your contacts.</p>
  <p>I can now used Advanced Search to find contacts that have e.g. Birthday Day Number 5 &amp; Birthday Month Number 2 (the fifth of February-- any year!).  This would work equally well for your purposes, as you'll be able to search by entire months by searching on only the month field. You could also set the fields up to be searchable by range, but I found that this slowed down searching criteria input for me.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>There's a custom search for that: "Find Upcoming Birthdays"
  yourserverhere.org/civicrm/contact/search/custom?csid=16&amp;reset=1</p>
  
  <p>Or did it disappear in 4.7?</p>
  
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Body: <p>Is there a way to find upcoming birthdays in version 4.7?</p>
  
  <p>When I try to find people by birthday in the advanced search, it still searches for people whose birthday is in the current year (birth-date).  So I can't find people who has birthdays in January neverminding the year.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>
  
Tags: <contacts><custom-search>
Title: How can I search for upcoming birthdays?
ThreadText: # How can I search for upcoming birthdays?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-02-03)
  
  Is there a way to find upcoming birthdays in version 4.7?
  
  When I try to find people by birthday in the advanced search, it still searches for people whose birthday is in the current year (birth-date). So I can't find people who has birthdays in January neverminding the year.
  
  Thanks.
  
  **Tags:** contacts, custom-search
  
  
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  ## 3 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-02-03. Score: 3
  
  There is an extension called "[Birthdays By Month](https://civicrm.org/extensions/birthdays-month)" which may prove helpful:
  
  > BIRTHDAYS BY MONTH
  >
  > This extension lets you look up contacts that have a birthday on a
  > given month. Once installed access it at ~/civicrm/birthdays-by-month.
  > Author: S. Lee Gooding
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: I have the same requirement. How do I go about installing the Birthday's by Month extension on 4.7? I dont see this extension available in the list of extensions in CiviCRM. Our organization is using Wordpress.  
  > **username_1**: @username_2 You can download the extension into your [extension directory](https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/16788/how-can-i-locate-my-extension-directory) and try to enable it.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2021-02-05. Score: 1
  
  I needed to send birthday messages to contacts, but Civi's Birthdate field, as you say OP, looks only at the current year, despite the fancy relational date ranges (i.e. Today, Tomorrow, Last Year, etc.). Useless.
  
  Rather than adding an extension, I used custom fields to create a work around in Civi.
  
  I added two custom fields: Birthday Day Number; & Birthday Month Number. I have these set as number fields, but really any qualitative field that can express values in the ranges 1-31 and 1-12 works (e.g. you could use a number field and a text field using the names of months, but this has a higher chance to introduce user error in inputting data when compared to numbers imo: e.g. one user writes Feb, another writes Fev, another writes February, etc.).
  
  If you then export the birthdate fields and process so that you get the day and month as isolated columns in a csv, you can import and add those fields to your contacts.
  
  I can now used Advanced Search to find contacts that have e.g. Birthday Day Number 5 & Birthday Month Number 2 (the fifth of February-- any year!). This would work equally well for your purposes, as you'll be able to search by entire months by searching on only the month field. You could also set the fields up to be searchable by range, but I found that this slowed down searching criteria input for me.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2016-02-03. Score: 0
  
  There's a custom search for that: "Find Upcoming Birthdays"
  yourserverhere.org/civicrm/contact/search/custom?csid=16&reset=1
  
  Or did it disappear in 4.7?
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_5**: I don't see it on a site using 4.6.x either. Is it perhaps one of your own?  
  > **username_0**: We did not have it in any version.  We tried to install it in the version 4.6.x but it wasn't working.  
  
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