Claiming and requesting
Per-member setting for claiming a reading directly versus requesting approval.
Features
Staff, External Leyners, Roles & Permissions in iLeyn
Staff, External Leyners, Roles & Permissions in iLeyn
iLeyn member roles let administrators decide who each person in the synagogue is and how much access they have. Everyone is either staff — administrators, coordinators, and tutors who help run the organization and can also leyn — or an external leyner who reads in your services but holds no staff access. From the Members area you set a staff member's access type, grant the Tutor role and management permissions like Service Coordinator and Custom Voicing Curator, and control how each reader claims assignments.
Two kinds of people: staff and external leyners
Everyone attached to your organization is one of two kinds of people, and this is the first choice you make about them. Staff are the administrators, coordinators, and tutors who help run the organization — and staff can also leyn in your services. External Leyners read in your services and hold reading designations, but are not part of your staff: they can be assigned or claim readings, yet they cannot be granted staff access or roles. Which one someone is determines what else you are able to give them.
Staff access: Member or Administrator
Within your staff, each person has an access type. A Member has standard access for everyday work. An Administrator has full permission to manage every aspect of the organization — its members, content, settings, and purchases — so administrator access is best reserved for your most trusted staff. External leyners are not staff, so they do not receive an access type at all.
Roles and permissions: Tutor, Service Coordinator, Custom Voicing Curator
Between a standard Member and a full Administrator, you can grant targeted access without handing over the whole organization. The Tutor staff role marks someone who can be a MitzvahManager student's primary tutor — only Tutors can be assigned that. Two management permissions delegate specific work: Service Coordinator lets a member create, update, and delete services and manage service assignments, and Custom Voicing Curator lets a member upload, edit, review, and delete your organization's custom voicing recordings. Grant just the role or permission someone needs and nothing more.
Readers, designations, and how they claim
Reading in a service is its own aspect, and both staff and external leyners can hold it — anyone who can be assigned a reading is, in effect, a leyner on your services. Service designations decide which types of assignment a member is eligible for, so specialized parts stay limited to qualified readers while everyday readings stay open. You also control, per person, whether they can claim an open reading directly or must request it for an administrator to approve.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between staff and an external leyner?
Staff — administrators, coordinators, and tutors — help run the organization and can also leyn. External leyners read in your services and hold reading designations, but are not staff and cannot be granted staff access or roles.
What is the difference between a Member and an Administrator?
Both are staff access types. A Member has standard access, while an Administrator has full permission to manage the organization, its members, content, settings, and purchases.
How do I let someone manage services or curate voicings without making them an administrator?
Grant the Service Coordinator permission for creating and staffing services and managing assignments, or the Custom Voicing Curator permission for uploading, editing, reviewing, and deleting custom voicing recordings. Each grants just that area.
Who can be a MitzvahManager student's tutor?
Only a staff member with the Tutor role can be assigned as a student's primary tutor.
Works well with
Service customization
Designations you define gate which readings a member is eligible to take.
Scheduling
The Service Coordinator permission lets a member run scheduling.
How iLeyn works
See how staff, leyners, and permissions map onto the service lifecycle.
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