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Context

When working in Worshipteam.com, the system allows you to have multiple teams inside your group, with multiple members within each team.  It will even allow you to own or participate in multiple groups (though most people won't need this).  Additionally, individuals will have different roles within a group and/or a team.  Some people will be members of a team, others will be administrators of team, some will be administrators of the entire group.  Some people will additionally have different roles with different teams.  One person may be a team member in one team, while being a team administrator in another team.  All of these roles and groupings require that the Worshipteam.com workspace adapt for each person using it, so that it gives the user access and functions appropriate to the role and group/team setting in which they are operating at that moment.

Context is defined by two things:

• the current group/team the user is operating in
• the role the user has in that setting

Because a user may exist in multiple groups and/or teams, and may have different roles in each of them, we clarify the "current" environment that a user is operating in by a "context" tree menu on the left margin of the Worshipteam.com website.  This "context" tree menu allows the user to move instantly from one environment to another, keeping information organized properly set in its appropriate "context".  Here is a typical screen in Worshipteam.com.  Notice the group/team context menu on the left margin.

In this example, the user currently has currently has "Sunday Team" selected.  This means the information in the main window will be related to the "Sunday Team". In this example, since the user is in the "People" section of the website (where people/teams and groups are managed), it lists the team members belonging to the Sunday Team.  If the user selected the group link (Covin's Group) in the context group/team menu, they would then be viewing the members that belong to the group as a whole.  Regardless of what section of the site that the user is in (calendar, sets, communicate, people, etc), this group/team menu will be available in the left margin and information will be relative to that context.

Changing the context is as simple as selecting the team or group link listed in the group/team menu in the left margin.