One of our lector volunteers had this suggestion: to provide to volunteers (especially new ones) a list of volunteers in each ministry organized by Mass preference. You can easily create a roster for each ministry that lists volunteers by their first service preference. To create printed rosters like this:
In the Web Terminal
1. Go to the Rosters pane in the admin view of the Web Terminal and click on the "+" button in the upper right to begin creating a new roster.
2. Give the roster a name, choose to make the roster accessible to "Web Admins and volunteers logged into the Web Terminal", and select "But only volunteers in one of the included ministries":
3. In the Ministries section, choose your first ministry -- for example, Readers.
4. In the Volunteers section, leave "Include all volunteers" selected.
5. In the Fields section, move the fields you wish to include on the roster from the column on the left to the "Fields to include" column on the right.
6. In the List arrangement section, check the box that says "Subdivide list(s) by first service preference":
7. When you are ready to create this roster, click the "Save" button.
8. Repeat steps 1 through 7 for your other ministries.
In the MSP desktop software
1. Go to the Rosterizer pane in MSP
2. In Included Ministries choose your first ministry
3. In Included Volunteers leave the first option selected to "Include all volunteers"
4. In Included Fields move the fields you wish to include on the roster from the "Available fields" column to the "Fields to include" column
5. In List Arrangement select the first option to "Group volunteers from each ministry into separate lists" and then check the box that says "Subdivide list(s) by first service preference"
6. Click "Generate Roster" and choose a name for the roster
7. Repeat for other ministries.