Notification settings: emails and push

Open the avatar menu top-right → My profile, then Notifications in the profile menu (the page lives at /my-profile/notifications). It’s a stack of cards, one per kind of notification. Nothing you change takes effect until you click Save preferences at the bottom — the whole form saves at once.

The Reminders card emails or pushes you ahead of an assignment you’re on. Your ecclesia sets a default cadence — say, seven days and one day before — and the card shows you what that currently is.

Tick Use my own cadence instead of the ecclesia default if you’d rather be reminded on your own schedule: add a row for each “days before” you want, or clear them all to stop reminder emails entirely. Leave the box unticked to follow whatever your ecclesia sends.

When a member asks for cover for one of their duties, or a coordinator opens an unfilled slot to volunteers, CDRoster can let you know — but only about duties you could actually take. This is off by default; tick Send me volunteer-request emails to opt in.

Ticking it reveals How emails arrive. That’s the key choice, and the next two steps cover its two modes. The separate push notifications checkbox below is independent — you can take push alerts without email, or the reverse.

Choose Daily digest and CDRoster gathers the open duties you could take into at most one email a day, rather than one per request. Two controls appear:

• How often a duty is mentioned — a still-open duty can show up in your digest more than once over its life (when it first appears, then a nudge or two as its date nears). Pick 1 to 5, or leave it on Ecclesia default — the number in brackets is what your ecclesia has chosen for everyone.
• Email send hour — the hour (0–23) your digest goes out. It’s in your ecclesia’s time zone, which may not be yours. The default is 7 (7am).

Choose Immediate for one email per request as it opens (nothing is sent if the request has already been filled by the time the email would go). Two controls appear:

• Last-call email — whether to also nudge you when a duty is still open in its final days. The choices cover “only if I’m not getting push notifications”, “always”, and “never”.
• Email send hour — the last-call email is sent at this hour, in your ecclesia’s time zone. The default is 7am.

The next cards are each a single push toggle for one kind of alert on your phone:

• Occurrence notes — a push when someone adds a note (a reading, the hymns, an AV cue) to a duty you’re on.
• Live quizzes — a ping with a link into a game night when a host starts one. Off by default.
• Forms & Records — a reminder when you have a form to complete. On by default.
• Service plans — a nudge if you’re rostered to plan a meeting’s order of service and it isn’t done. On by default.
• Announcements — a push for a new announcement. On by default.

Turning a push off only silences the phone alert — the note, form, or announcement still appears in the app and on your Home page.

The Always on card lists the categories you can’t opt out of — security alerts and changes to your own assignments, for example. They’re shown so you know what will still reach you whatever else you’ve turned off.

When the cards look right, click Save preferences. A toast confirms the save. If someone (an administrator acting for you) changed your settings in the meantime, you’ll be told to reload and reapply rather than overwrite their change.