Changing your choir settings

A choir in cori has surprisingly few settings — and exactly three of them noticeably change your day-to-day: which voices your choir sings, the default appointment confirmation and whether members may share annotations. This guide shows where the settings live, who's allowed to change them and how you save them.

Where the settings live

The settings one by one

Your voice part

It sits right at the top (for the choir leadership and admins under For you) and applies to everyone: your voice and, if your choir splits it up, the divisi part (Soprano 2, say). Only the voices set up under Choir voices are on offer. Your voice part always applies to this choir only — in another one you can happily sing something else.

Name and description

The choir name and description can be edited in the web app and in the app. You can't save without a name. In the app, the description appears in italics at the top of the choir page — a good spot for your rehearsal time and venue.

Choir voices

This is where you set which voices your choir sings in. The row shows the current setup, “SATB” for instance; a click on it opens the voice editor (in the app as a screen of its own). Members then only pick their voice from these voices, and the member list, appointments and attendance group by exactly this setup.

• Template: SATB, SSAATTBB, SAB, SSA, SSAA, TTB or TTBB. If none of them fits, it reads Custom setup. Your own voices such as “Band” stay when you switch the template.
• Voices: every voice shows its divisi parts and how many members sing it. Tap a voice to choose the number of divisi parts (none, 2, 3 or 4) and to set whether the divisi part is required. Then “Soprano” on its own isn't enough for members, they have to decide between Soprano 1 and Soprano 2, for instance. Use the handle on the left to change the order, and Remove voice to throw a voice out.
• Add another voice: missing basic voices are added with a single click. Type your own voice into the text field, Mezzo, Baritone or Band for example (40 characters at most). Your own voices have no divisi parts.
• Show divisi parts separately in lists: appears as soon as a voice has divisi parts. With the switch on, member and attendance lists show Soprano 1 and Soprano 2 for everyone instead of just Soprano. Underneath you can see which groups this produces.

The voice editor saves with its own Save, independently of the rest of the page.

Default appointment confirmation

Choosing Accept, Uncertain or Decline determines the status members start out with in a newly created appointment, before they've responded themselves.

• Accept suits choirs where the weekly rehearsal is a given for everyone and only absences get reported.
• Uncertain requires an active response from everyone.
• Decline works well for extra appointments where only confirmations count.

The setting applies to future appointments — responses that have already been recorded stay exactly as they are.

Members can share annotations with their section

When the switch is on, members may share their markings in the sheet music with everyone who sings the same voice part. Annotations for the whole choir remain reserved for the choir leadership and admins regardless.

Leaving and deleting a choir

The critical actions sit right at the bottom. They're described in detail elsewhere — see Leaving a choir and Deleting a choir.

Saving

The same applies in the web app and in the app: your input is only applied when you choose Save. The button becomes active as soon as you've changed something. If you go back via the back arrow with unsaved changes, cori asks Save changes? and you decide between Save and Discard. The choir voices are saved separately by the voice editor, see above.

What deliberately isn't here

A few things you'd expect in the choir settings are handled elsewhere in cori:

• Who may post in a chat group — you set that per group in its info view.
• Roles and admin rights — you assign those via the ⋮ menu in the member list.
• Invitation link — in the web app it sits behind the Invite Member button next to “Settings”, in the app behind the + next to the member count. Both are visible only to the choir leadership and admins.
• Subscription and payment — in the web app only, under Subscription.

What's next?

• The list behind it all: The member list
• Automating responses: Automatic attendance
• Markings in the sheet music: Sharing annotations
• Who's allowed to do what: Roles and permissions in the choir