PDS Ministry Scheduler™ eases the task of coordinating and assigning ministers for various functions at weekend or daily  liturgies. This is a flexible and customizable solution for scheduling masses, allowing the administrator to establish preferences and adjust for conflicts. Take the chaos out of ministry scheduling with PDS Ministry Scheduler.

Key Features and Benefits

• Create an unlimited number of ministries and ministers
   
• Allow multiple people access to the program over a network
   
• Use the PDS Office Data Synchronization wizard to quickly and easily import members and their ministries from PDS Church Office, Formation Office, or School Office.  Use this process on an ongoing basis to keep information up-to-date.  If synchronization is not an option, you can manually enter ministers and their ministries.

• Enjoy the ease of a unified ribbon bar and colorful icons for quick navigation
   
• Use the persistent navigation option at the top of each screen to quickly search for existing ministers by name, address, phone, e-mail, or ministry or view a list of recently accessed ministers
   
• Use the Personalized Favorites Menu to set up the screens and processes you use and access the most 
   
• Learn more about a screen by viewing a brief tutorial video, available on certain screens
   
• Mark a minister's "Bad Days" of the week where he or she is unable to serve
   
• Specify "Away Periods", giving both a beginning and ending date, that a minister is not available
   
• Flag even or odd weeks of the year as periods when a minister can not be scheduled; this relates to people who work on alternate weeks not corresponding to specific weeks in a month
   
• Ensure individual family members are never scheduled at different times on the same weekend or prohibit people in the same family from serving together
   
• Select Preferred Masses at which to serve and select if the preferred masses are always assigned in the order in which they were entered or are rotated among the preferences
   
• Specify "Don't Want" Masses, for which he/she will NOT be assigned
   
• Commission a minister in more than one ministry and alternate him/her among their assigned ministries
   
• Assign a particular person to a specific mass, bypassing the scheduling engine; for example, there might be a special wedding anniversary mass that you want the couple's son to serve
   
• Group ministers so they will always serve together
   
• Indicate the type of masses a minister is permitted to serve 
  • Permanent Masses that are celebrated the same time each weekend
  • Daily Masses that are celebrated during the week
  • Special Masses that occur at a specific time and date  
     
• Quickly view all of your report settings at a glance and make changes to each setting from the Reports Overview Screen
   
• Export data into spreadsheets, mailing labels, custom reports, and telephone contact sheets; send reports to your printer or export as text or RTF documents for inclusion in your word processor for further formatting


• Save time by letting the program automatically check for duplicate records when you are adding or editing a minister or mass