Ministering Three-some

6 postsstarted by creeve4 2019-10-18 03:04 UTC753 viewsoriginal topic

New Member

#1
2019-10-18 03:04 UTC

I am unable to create an ministering three-some consisting of a husband, wife, and their son. I can create a three-some with three men.

Is this a policy limitation or a bug in the website?

russellhltn

Community Administrator

#2
2019-10-18 04:20 UTC

What priesthood does the son have? I think he'd have to be at least a Teacher to participate in Ministering.

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sbradshaw

Community Moderators

#3
2019-10-18 15:12 UTC

Are you able to add the son to a different companionship or tripanionship? I'm guessing there's a business rule programmed into Leader and Clerk Resources that prevents someone from being assigned to a companionship with someone of another gender who's not their spouse; so assigning the son would probably run into that limitation.

Samuel Bradshaw • If you desire to serve God, you are called to the work.

creeve4

New Member

#4
2019-10-19 13:56 UTC

The problem is that there is no search box to add an additional member as a companion when a husband and wife are paired together:
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If I put the father and son together, I will have the search box, but then it no longer displays the mother (or any females):
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A companionship consisting of two men has the search box:
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davesudweeks

Senior Member

#5
2019-10-19 18:54 UTC

If the business rule will not allow you to put non-married males and females in the same companionship (as surmised by Samuel Bradshaw), the screenshots you provided are what I would expect. Once you put the husband and wife together, you cannot add another male (or another female, for that matter) because the system recognizes there is no marriage to any 3rd person. I recommend you provide your special use case as feedback, which will be forwarded to those who set the developer's priorities (though there is no guarantee a code change will occur).

scgallafent

Church Employee

#6
2019-10-21 14:50 UTC

I haven't talked with the developer or product manager responsible for this, but I suspect you have run into a circumstance not allowed by the business rules. Without talking with them, I don't know if this was a situation they didn't anticipate or if it was an intentional design.