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# Creating a Worship overview

The **Worship Overview** feature in the ChurchDesk Calendar allows you to display selected events – such as services or other activities – in a clear and visually appealing format. It's perfect for sharing information with your congregation, for example, on a notice board or as a printed handout.

The service schedule pulls all its data directly from the ChurchDesk calendar and can be downloaded as a Word document (.docx) for easy editing and printing.

|| The quality of the overview depends on how well your calendar events are maintained.

## How to find the feature

Navigate to:  
**Calendar > Reports > Worship Overview**

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## How the Worship Overview works

1. **Set your filters:**
    Select the time period and the types of content you'd like to include in your overview.  
    You can filter by:

* Date range
* Categories
* Location(s)
* Assigned users (e.g. priest)
        


2. **Display results:**
    Click **“Get results”** to preview all events that match your filters.
    

3. **Print the Worship Overview**
* After you have set a default ([Set default](#2-set-template-as-default))
* and set filters for desired dates,
* click on **"Print Service Schedule"**: The document will be downloaded as a **.docx file** and can be opened, edited, or printed directly.

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||| If the download does not start automatically:

* Check if a **pop-up blocker** is active.
* Check the **browser settings**.
* Close the browser and open ChurchDesk again.
* Try with a different browser.

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## Set template as default:

After you have clicked on **"Get results"**, "Manage templates" and "Print Service Schedule" are available to you.

To set a default,

* you need the **"Book and Plan" permission** in the calendar

1. Click on "Manage templates" and select a pre-set template
2. Click on "Action" and "Customize as new template"
3. Here you can select which information you want to output by default, e.g.:

* Parish
* Short name of the Parish
* Location names
* Pastor / Celebrant
* Contributors
* Short description
* Intentions
* Price
* Collection purpose
* Name of the liturgical day

4. Enter a new name and save it.
5. Then click **again** into your new template and select it as **"Default"**. Now this will be selected for "Print Service Schedule" in the future.

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## Templates available to you:

* **Without ChurchDesk Studio:** 1 simple template
* **With** [ChurchDesk Studio: 12 different layouts to choose from](https://churchdesk.com/en/product/studio/)
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## Excel export

The Excel export is more suitable for internal purposes as it is not formatted.

1. First filter for dates, [as described above](#2-how-the-worship-overview-works)
2. **Adjust columns:** At the top right, you can determine which columns should be displayed in the view and included in an **Excel export** (e.g., title, location, time, contributors).


## Good to know:
* Printing is **not done directly from ChurchDesk** – it happens after downloading the file in Word or another editing tool.
* The Worship Overview is designed for **public use** – such as posting on a church notice board, distributing as a flyer, or attaching as a PDF in your newsletter.
* This feature does not replace calendar entries – it only formats and displays them in a presentable way.