Parties and roles
You set up parties and roles in the Hub, under Parties & roles.
- Parties are the channels people talk on, like Production, Camera, or Audio. In other intercoms they’re sometimes called channels or party lines.
- Groups collect a team’s parties together, like Production or Security. When the Hub is linked to your church, each group links to one of your teams.
- Roles decide what someone hears when they join and where they’re allowed to talk, like Director or Camera.
Your changes are a draft until you save. Select Save and apply and phones update right away. Discard throws the draft away.
Start from a template
Select Add a team from a template and pick one under Add a team. It adds a whole group with its parties and roles, and you can change anything afterwards.
| Template | Parties | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| Broadcast | Production, Camera, Audio, Lighting, Graphics | Director, Producer, Camera, Audio, Lighting, Graphics |
| Event security | Security, Doors, Parking, First Aid, Management | Security Lead, Security, Door Team, Parking, First Aid, Management |
| Campus operations | Management, Guest Services, Kids, Facilities, Security, Hospitality | Campus Lead, Management, Guest Services, Kids, Facilities, Security, Usher |
| Worship team | Band, Vocals, FOH, Stage, Production | Music Director, Band, Vocals, FOH, Stage |
To start over, pick a template under Start over, like Replace everything with Broadcast, then Use template. Nothing changes for phones until you save. Your ATEM address is kept.
Parties
Under Parties, each group has its own list.
- Add a party: select Add party to group. Type its name.
- Color: click the dot to pick a color. Phones show each party in its color.
- Move to another group: type the group’s name in the Group box and press Return. Leave it empty for a party everyone on the Hub sees.
- Add a group: select Add a group, then rename the new party’s group from New team.
- Delete: select the trash can. The party is also taken off every role.
Renaming a party keeps everyone’s volume for it.
Link a group to a team
When the Hub is linked to your church, each group shows Link to a team. Pick the team from your Teams. Sub-teams are listed under their team.
Only people on that team (or one of its sub-teams) get the group’s parties and see its crew. So your production crew never hears security, and the other way round. A group left Not linked (no one signed in gets it) isn’t given to crew when they sign in. Only staff who see every group, and people a director lets in with one of its roles, get it. See Who can join.
If you just added a team in the dashboard, select Refresh teams in Settings → Culminate Life.
Roles
Phones get a role when they join. For each role under Roles:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Sees | Every group, or Only these groups. A role only sees parties in its groups, plus parties with no group. |
| Positions | The team positions that join as this role (only when the Hub is linked). See Positions. |
| Hears | The parties this role is listening to when they join. People can turn others on or off in the app. |
| Talks on | Any party, Only these (pick them), or Listen only. A listen-only role sees Listen only in place of TALK. |
| Crew | Can let people in and remove them. Anyone with this checked can answer join requests and move or remove people. It’s on for Director unless you turn it off. |
Select Add role to add one, and the trash can to delete one. Someone whose role isn’t in the list hears everything and can talk anywhere.
Link roles to positions
When the Hub is linked to your church, each role has Positions. Pick the positions from the teams linked to the role’s groups, like Production · Camera 2. If the list says Link this role’s groups to teams first, link the group to a team above.
When someone joins, the Hub looks at today’s schedule in Teams:
- If they’re scheduled and have accepted a position linked to a role, they join as that role.
- Otherwise, if they hold a linked position on the team, they join as that role.
A position ending in a number, like “Camera 2”, also picks their camera for tally.