Team presets, like Band A and Band B

A preset is a lineup with a name, like "Band A" or "Acoustic set": exact people on exact positions. Put one on a service and its people go on as Not asked yet. Nobody hears anything until you send the requests.

Save a team as a preset

1. Open a service whose team is how you like it, and choose the Team tab.
2. Press Save as a preset (or open the team's preset button and choose Save this team as a preset).
3. Give it a name, and tick Use it for every new service of that type if it's your usual team.
4. Press Save the preset.

With the box ticked, new services of that type come with these people, not asked yet. PraisePad then offers the services you've already planned: each date says what would change, like "Same people: marked Band A" or "+ Jo on Vocals". A date where anyone has been asked is locked, so their request stays as it is.

Put a preset on a service

On the Team tab, press Put a team on (or the preset's name, once one is on) beside the team's name. Choose a preset to see who goes on before anything changes. Anyone away that week, on another service at the same time, no longer on the team, or stopped by a requirement is left off and named, and their spot stays open. The last choice, Same team as, copies the last service of that type instead. Undo on the message puts it all back.

A preset never takes off anyone who was asked, and never lowers how many a spot needs.

With nobody singing on a service yet, the Plan tab offers the type's usual preset too: in a song's Led by… menu and in Suggest songs, it says "Put Band A on" (your preset's name). It goes on the same way, with Undo, and then you can choose who leads each song. See who leads each song.

Band A and Band B take turns

A preset can go on some weeks of a service type, so two bands share the month. On the team's page, press Edit beside the preset, and under When it goes on choose, for each service type:

• Only when I choose it: it goes on a service only when you put it there.
• Every Sunday Morning (the type's name): new services of that type come with it. One preset per type can be the every-week one; choosing it moves it from another.
• Some Sunday Morning services: press the weeks of the month it plays, 1st to 5th (a 5th Sunday only comes some months), or choose Every few weeks for every other week (or every 3 weeks, and so on) from a date. A type whose services don't have a day yet says weeks, like "1st and 3rd weeks".

The editor shows the next dates it goes on, like "Next: Nov 15, Dec 6". New services on those weeks come with that preset, not asked yet, and the other weeks with the every-week one. If two presets have the same week, the editor says so ("Band B also has the 3rd Sunday"), and the one higher in the Presets card goes on: Move up and Move down, under the three dots beside a preset, change which. When you save, PraisePad offers the services you've already planned on those weeks, each with what would change.

Everyone on a preset with weeks is told in the app, like "Dana put you on Band A, 1st and 3rd Sundays". Nobody is asked until you send the requests. Fill open spots seats a preset's people first on its weeks, on services that don't have a preset on yet.

Rotations became presets on weeks: each rotation is now a preset with the same people and the same weeks.

Who's away when you send

Someone put on weeks ahead may add time away later. Send leaves them out and says who. To ask them anyway, open their row's menu and choose Ask anyway.