My schedule: serving at more than one church

If you serve at more than one church that uses HoW, My schedule in any of your churches’ member portals shows all your dates on one page, with the church named on each. You sign in once.

How to get there

• In your church’s member portal, open My schedule from the menu.
• Staff who also serve: in the staff dashboard, open the account menu (your initial, top right) and choose My schedule. HoW opens your church’s member portal at My schedule, without a second password. An old bookmark to the staff dashboard’s schedule page does the same.
• If you only volunteer and sign in at login.how.dcxlogic.com, HoW shows This address is for church staff, with a button for each of your churches’ member portals. Choose one, then My schedule. An old bookmark to the staff dashboard’s schedule page shows the same buttons, and each opens straight to My schedule.
• If an old bookmark can’t open My schedule at your staff church (your church doesn’t use Services, or the portal didn’t open), HoW shows Open the staff dashboard to go back, and a button for each church where you’re a member that opens its My schedule. If there are none, it says My schedule isn’t available to you here.

What it shows

For every church where you serve, each upcoming date shows:

• the church’s name,
• the date and time, where the service is held,
• the service, your position and team,
• your answer so far.

You only ever see your own dates. A church you leave drops off the page at once.

Answer a date

• A date at the church whose portal you’re in: choose Yes, I’ll be there, or No, I can’t (you can add a word for your scheduler). Waiting for your answer counts only this church’s dates. See My schedule in the member portal.
• A date at another church: choose Open in ’s portal. HoW opens that church’s portal at that date, and you answer it there. If that church uses its own member address and prefers it, the portal opens there; otherwise at HoW’s address. Under Waiting for your answer, these dates are listed after this church’s, under Answer in that church’s portal. If you’re not signed in there yet, HoW asks you to confirm with Continue as … first.

Dates you cannot serve

On My schedule, Dates you cannot serve lists your blockout dates at every church, each with its church’s name. Choose Add dates, and if you belong to more than one church, choose One church (the church whose portal you’re in) or All my churches. With All my churches, HoW saves the dates at each church. If one church can’t save them, HoW says which, and you can add them from that church’s portal. You can remove a date from the list at any time. If your login isn’t linked to a record at the church whose portal you’re in, and you belong to one other church, the dialog says For : the dates are saved there. See Blockout dates.

When two dates overlap

If you’re asked to serve at two churches at the same time, each date shows Also serving at the other church then. HoW does not decide for you: answer each one as you wish.

Sharing when you’re busy

The first time you serve at two churches, the member portal asks Share when you’re busy? If you choose Yes, share busy times, a church that schedules you sees Busy at another church at this time when you’re already serving elsewhere at that moment. It never says which church, which service, or any detail. If you choose No, keep them separate, or close the question, no church sees anything.

Keep in mind: a church that schedules you can tell you’re busy at a time it asks about.

You can change your mind at any time: on My schedule, under Sharing busy times, turn Share busy times on or off. It takes effect at once.

Good to know

• Only your own dates are shown. No church can see another church’s schedule.
• If a church asks for a two-step code for your role, My schedule says so. Choose Open in ’s portal and enter the code there.
• If you’re not linked to a record at the church whose portal you’re in, My schedule says so and still shows your other churches’ dates. Ask that church’s office to link your login.
• My schedule appears in a church’s portal only if that church uses Services.
• What DCX Logic support can do: check, with the church’s permission, what a date shows. Support cannot change your answers or your sharing choice.

How this compares with Planning Center

• One screen for all your churches’ schedules. The same: each date names its church. Planning Center’s is My Schedule in Church Center; HoW’s is My schedule in the member portal.
• Answering. In Planning Center you answer in Church Center. In HoW you answer a church’s dates in that church’s portal, one click away with Open in ’s portal.
• Blockout dates for one church or all. The same: Planning Center offers both, and so does HoW.
• Conflicts shown to other churches. Planning Center turns them on when you link your accounts. HoW asks you once, keeps sharing off until you answer, and shows only “busy”.