Bulletin — How It Works

Who: Anyone.   Goal: Catch up on this week's parish news.

1. On the parish website, open Bulletin.
2. The most recent edition opens automatically, with its date and the liturgical Sunday at the top.
3. Read the sections down the page. Each one shows two columns side by side — English and your reading language — so you can follow along in either.

Result: This week's bulletin, on your phone, in your language — no paper needed.

Who: Anyone.   Goal: Open a past week's bulletin.

1. At the top of the Bulletin page there's a row of labelled tabs — one per edition, newest first.
2. Tap any label to open that week's bulletin. The current one is highlighted.
3. The strip scrolls sideways on a phone, so every past edition is reachable.

Result: Missed a week? Every edition the parish has published is one tap away.

Who: Anyone.   Goal: Find a specific notice — a date, a name, an event.

1. Type a word into the search box in the toolbar and press Enter.
2. Matching words are highlighted right in the text of the bulletin you're viewing.

Result: Jump straight to the line you're looking for instead of scanning the whole page.

Who: Anyone.   Goal: Get the printable bulletin.

1. If the parish attached a PDF, a download link appears in the toolbar of that edition.
2. Tap it to open the PDF in a new tab, then save or print it as usual.

Result: The traditional printed bulletin, ready to read offline or post on the fridge.

Who: Parish staff.   Goal: Pick the way that matches how you already work.

1. Upload a PDF each week — you already lay the bulletin out (or a printer does). Nave shows that PDF, week after week, with the older ones in an archive. Nothing to retype.
2. Build it in Nave — you type the bulletin as sections, and Nave translates it, lays it out and can assemble next Sunday's automatically.

Result: The page changes to match. Most parishes coming from a printed bulletin want the first; the rest of this guide covers both, and you can switch whenever you like.

Who: Parish staff.   Goal: Put this Sunday's bulletin online in under a minute.

1. Open Admin → Content → Bulletin and use Add new.
2. Choose the PDF and pick the Sunday it is for. That is the whole form.
3. Tap Add bulletin. Nave names it for you — the date and that Sunday's place in the Church year — so the archive reads properly without you typing a label.

Result: Parishioners open the Bulletin page and read this week's PDF straight away, on a phone or a laptop. Last week's moves into the archive by itself.

If something goes wrong with the upload, the page says what happened rather than failing quietly — and you can paste a link to the PDF instead if your file is very large.

Who: Parish staff.   Goal: Keep the list of past bulletins to what people actually want.

1. Every edition you post stays in the archive, newest first, with no extra work.
2. To take one out of public view, untick Published — it stays in your admin list.
3. To remove one for good, use Delete bulletin. You will be asked to confirm.

Result: A clean public archive. Parishioners looking for "the one with the Christmas Mass times" can find it.

Who: Parish staff.   Goal: Fill the bulletin with content.

1. Open the bulletin in the list and use + Add section.
2. Give it a heading and body text. For a bulleted list, start each line with "• " — it renders as bullets on the public page.
3. Set the Order number to control where the section sits — sections display from lowest to highest.
4. Edit or delete any existing section from its card; change the Order number to move it up or down.

Result: A clean, ordered bulletin — Mass Times, announcements, ministry notes, in the sequence you choose.

Who: Parish staff.   Goal: Offer the print bulletin as a download.

1. On the bulletin's form, use Bulletin PDF (optional) to upload your file.
2. Save the bulletin. A download link now appears on the public page for that edition.

Result: Parishioners can read online and grab the familiar printed version.

Who: Parish staff.   Goal: Reach Spanish- and Tagalog-speaking parishioners.

1. Write headings, body text, and the Sunday title in English only.
2. Spanish and Tagalog are filled in automatically for the languages your parish has turned on.
3. Need to redo a translation after editing? Use Regenerate translations on that bulletin or section. You can also type a translation by hand to override the automatic one.

Result: One English bulletin becomes a multilingual one — no separate copies to maintain.

Who: Parish staff.   Goal: Keep the list of editions tidy.

1. Every bulletin you create is listed newest-first and stays as part of the archive automatically.
2. To pull an edition back, untick Published — it stays in your admin list but disappears from the public page.
3. To remove one entirely, use Delete bulletin; this also deletes its sections (you'll be asked to confirm). Advanced

Result: A clean public archive, with full control over what stays visible.

Who: Parish staff.   Goal: Decide whether the back page exists at all.

1. Both are switches, in Admin → Settings → Features: Bulletin advertisers and Bulletin classifieds.
2. Switched off, they vanish from the admin page and from the printed bulletin — no empty headings, nothing to explain.
3. Switched on, you can keep sponsor tiles with start and end dates, and short classified notices.

Result: A parish that sells ad space has the tools; a parish that does not never sees them.

Who: Anyone.   Goal: Receive each new edition without remembering to look.

1. On the public Bulletin page, fill in a name and email address. No account, no password.
2. Each new edition is emailed out when the office sends it.
3. Every one of those emails carries an unsubscribe link that works without signing in.

Result: Parishioners who do not use the website still get the bulletin — including the ones who never had a login.