Tell your mosque when you can serve

If you would help more often when the timing suits you, you can tell your mosque the times you are usually free. Your coordinator then sees, at a glance, who fits a slot before they ask. It is a hint for planning, never a promise, and it never stops you from claiming anything.

The quickest way in: straight after you claim

Once you have claimed a slot, the confirmation asks you one question: "When can you be available?" Tapping Tell your mosque when takes you straight to the page below, already signed in, with nothing to look up.

You never have to answer it. Not now closes the question, stores nothing at all, and you will not be asked again for that slot. You can still set your times whenever you like, from any roster link your mosque sends you.

Where to find it

Open your mosque's roster link, the same one you use to claim a slot. On a slot you have claimed, tap Set when you can serve. The page names the mosque you are setting times for, so if you help at more than one, you always know which one you are telling.

On a phone or computer Kadim has not seen before, it first asks you to confirm it's you with a code texted to your mobile, then opens your times. You only do this once on each device.

You need to have claimed a slot at least once, so the mosque knows it is really you. Nobody else can see or set your times.

Add a window

A window is one stretch of time on one day, for example Friday 12pm to 3pm.

1. Tap Add a window.
2. Pick a day, a start time and an end time.
3. Add as many as you like. Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings are two separate windows.
4. Tap Save.

Times follow the mosque's UK clock. An end time before the start means the following day, so Friday 10pm to 2am continues into Saturday. Equal start and end times are invalid.

If the mosque has several sites, choose a site for a window or keep Whole mosque. Your saved site choice is retained when you return.

Without JavaScript, adding or removing a row reloads the form and keeps your unsaved times and away dates. The message reminds you to Save; changing rows alone saves nothing.

Say when you are away

Under Away dates, enter the first and last day you are away. Both dates are included. You can add several periods and, at a multi-site mosque, limit one to a site. Leave an unused row blank. Press Save to keep the changes.

Your weekly windows stay underneath. Remove an away period and save to use those usual times again. Saying you are away never drops a duty you already accepted. No reason is requested or stored.

Change or remove a window

• Change a window by editing the day or times in place, then Save.
• Remove a window with its Remove button. Nothing is saved until you press Save, so if you change your mind, add it back or just leave the page.
• Clear everything by removing your windows and away periods and saving. That is fine. It simply means your mosque carries no times for you, exactly as before you started. You are never locked in.

What your mosque sees, and what it does not

• Your coordinator sees your windows when planning a rota, and a gentle note if a duty falls outside them. That is all it is, a note. It never blocks you.
• You choose when, never why. There is no box for a reason, a health note or anything else, and there never will be here.
• No other volunteer sees your times. There is no public list and no message is ever sent when you set them.

That is the whole idea: tell the mosque when suits you, and let the planning fit around your week.