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Rotas

Your teams' volunteer rotas: the days each team serves, who is on, and the open slots you can sign up for.

Sign up for a slot

  1. Open the rota from the list.
  2. Find an open slot under My rota, or on the grid.
  3. Press Sign up.

Then: Where the rota takes sign-ups at once, the slot is yours and on My shifts. Where a keeper approves each sign-up, it waits under Waiting for a keeper, and you are told when they decide.

Rather not? Press Withdraw beside a sign-up still waiting.

Who: The team's leaders decide sign-ups, or the unit's roster keepers where the team has no leader.

Sokha leads the Saturday welcome team. They open December for sign-up and the twelve on the team are told once; by Friday most Saturdays are full, and Visal takes the last welcome-desk slot on the 12th.

Swap or give away a slot

  1. Open the rota.
  2. Under My rota, press Swap or give away beside your slot.
  3. Choose under What would you like? who takes it, or which of their slots you take.
  4. Press Send.

Then: They answer first; then a keeper who is not one of you decides, and you are both told. Until then the slot is yours.

Start a rota for your team

  1. Under Start a rota, choose the Team.
  2. Give it a Name.
  3. Press Start a rota.
  4. Open Settings.
  5. Under When it serves, choose the Day, the weeks and the times, and press Add.
  6. Under What it needs each time, give A role and How many, and press Add.
  7. Choose whether A keeper approves each sign-up, and press Save.

Then: The rota is ready, but takes no sign-ups until you open a cycle.

Who: A team's leaders and co-leaders can start one, and so can whoever keeps rosters at its unit.

Open the next month for sign-up

  1. Open the rota.
  2. Press the button at the top that opens the next cycle, such as “Open December for sign-up”.
  3. Copy the Sign-up link to share with the team and send it to them.

Then: The team is told once that the month is open, and those serving are reminded before each day at the time the rota sets.

Put somebody on a slot

  1. Open the rota.
  2. Press the slot on the grid.
  3. Choose who goes on it under Put on it.
  4. If they said they cannot serve then, give a reason.
  5. Press Save.

Then: They are told they are on it. Sign-ups waiting on that slot are closed.

Rather not? Press Make it open to free the slot, or Take it off the rota to remove it; whoever was on it is told.

You see the rotas of the teams you are on, and, as a team's leader or a roster keeper at its unit, the rotas you keep. A rota of a team you are not on is not shown at all. An Auditor, whose every seat only reads, keeps no rotas: the page says their seat only reads.