A quick tour: how Vianney is organized

Vianney is one place for the day-to-day life of the parish — people, the Mass, sacraments, communication, and pastoral care. Navigation runs down the left in the order a parish week actually runs, with a top bar for search and quick actions. What you see depends on your role, so two staff members may have different menus. Areas that hold more than one screen sit rolled up until you click them, and each row can carry a small badge with an open count — unread Messages, an open Care case — rolled up onto the area name while it is closed. Wherever Vianney shows you a long list — messages, baptisms, form submissions, the people who serve — a small search box with sort and filter dropdowns sits just above it, and a quiet count tells you how many of the total you are seeing.

The main areas, in the order they appear

• Home — a read-only snapshot of your parish's day: the brief, your tasks, today's liturgy, the week's Masses, and the numbers that matter. See Your Today dashboard.
• Messages — your own daily action feed: birthday and anniversary greetings ready to send, incoming Shepherd Notes from parishioners, and anything else needing a reply. See Sending birthday and anniversary greetings.
• Tasks — the two "what is waiting on me" lists, sitting next to Messages because that is what they are. My Tasks is your own: work routed to you, anything you add yourself, and — if you connect Google under Settings → My Account — the same list you see in Google Tasks on your phone. Assign Tasks routes pastoral work to a priest, and appears only if you are allowed to do that. The row carries a badge with your own open count.
• Liturgy & Intentions — the week at the altar and the intention book. It opens on Look Ahead, a week-by-week run of day cards; see Look Ahead: the Liturgy landing page.
• Events — parish events with a public sign-up page, capacity, waitlists and rosters. See Events and RSVPs.
• Care & Engagement — Care comes first: the sick list, care cases, death anniversaries and prayer requests. Then Engagement, which opens on a dashboard of honest counts and carries your follow-ups, the families you may need to reconnect with, saved lists and lifecycle stages.
• Sacraments — leads with Records, the read-only pane of glass across every recorded, in-progress and requested sacrament, then Baptism, Matrimony and Funerals: a guided case for each, from first call to the register.
• Faith Formation — religious education, adult formation, and OCIA (if your parish uses it).
• Ministries — rosters, the schedule, and availability.
• School — admissions, students, and alumni (if your parish runs a school).
• Stewardship — funds, campaigns, and giving (if your parish uses it).
• People — the parish Directory, and Safe Environment clearance tracking for volunteers and staff who serve in ministries requiring it (grant-access required; see Roles and what each can see).
• Communications — Connect (email and text to groups of parishioners) and Forms for online sign-ups and requests.
• Cemetery — plots, rights, and interments (if your parish uses it).
• Reports — every report and export in one place; some run right there. See The Reports workspace.
• Settings — staff, roles, modules, and parish setup (admins only).

The top bar

A bar across the top holds a global search (jump straight to a person or a page — press / to land in it), a tasks button for your own open assignments across every module, and + Quick Add for starting a new person, note, or case without leaving where you are.

Back and Forward really work

Every move you make leaves a step in your browser's history — switching areas, changing a tab inside one, opening a person or household, even opening the slide-over panel. So Back takes you back one honest step and Forward returns, exactly as they do on any website. You can also bookmark a screen and land straight on it.

On a phone

The phone layout is its own thing, not a squeezed desktop: a bottom bar for the everyday screens and a More sheet for the rest, grouped as Ministry, Operations and System. Records leads the sacrament rows there too.

Home at a glance

Home is a read-only snapshot you can rearrange. It leads with the liturgical day — the celebration, its color, the readings links, and today's Masses with each one's intention and celebrant. Below that come the Pastor's Brief, the AI readings summary, a full-width strip of the week's day cards (the same cards Look Ahead draws), and the tile wall, which leads with whatever is waiting on the parish. Down the right-hand side sit The Year — a twelve-month calendar wheel in the liturgical colors — and My Tasks beneath it. Click any day in the week strip, or any day in the expanded wheel, and Vianney takes you straight to that day in Look Ahead. See Your Today dashboard.

A rule that runs through everything

Vianney never sends anything by itself. The AI may draft a message, sort a note, or suggest a match — but a person always reviews and clicks send. And the system never guesses who someone is; when a name is unclear it shows you the candidates and lets you choose.