A permanent room is a meeting whose link never changes: you share it once, then open or close it whenever you need to. It is perfect for a weekly prayer meeting, a small group or a team check-in that comes back every week.
How it differs from a regular meeting
A regular meeting happens at a set time and then ends. A permanent room stays available at the same address at all times: participants keep the same link from one week to the next.
| Regular meeting | Permanent room |
|---|---|
| Fixed date and time | No date, opened on demand |
| Unique link per meeting | Fixed, reusable link |
| Ends once | Opened and closed with a click |
Create the room
- Open Sanctumel Meet, then New meeting.
- Give it a title (for example "Tuesday prayer group").
- Turn on the Permanent meeting option.
- Choose a custom address (the shortcut after
/meet/join/). Use letters, digits and hyphens. - Optionally add the usual schedule ("Every Tuesday at 8pm"): it is shown to participants.
Tip: pick a short address that is easy to say out loud, such as prayer-tuesday. You can then share it verbally without mistakes.
Open and close the room
On the permanent room card, a single button toggles between two states:
- Open the room: participants can join.
- Close the room: access is paused until the next time you open it.
While the room is closed, anyone clicking the link sees a waiting screen with the usual schedule, without being able to enter.
Note: the link stays valid even when the room is closed. You never have to resend it: simply open the room before the meeting.
Share the link
Copy the link from the card and send it once and for all by message, email or WhatsApp. You can also protect entry with a password and choose whether the room is internal or public.
Going further
- Start an online meeting
- Welcome participants and run the meeting
- Write the minutes of a meeting
- Build a program
Schedule the room: it opens by itself
In Edit, give the room its days, its time (your church's) and its duration. From then on:
- The room opens by itself fifteen minutes before the hour.
- It closes by itself once the duration has passed.
- The manual button remains in charge: what you open or close by hand is never contradicted.
The schedule shows in plain words on the card and on the room's page.
The automatic reminder, to a chosen list
Pick a delay (5 to 60 minutes before the hour): the reminder goes out by email, on its own, in the church's language.
On the room's page, the Reminder recipients card builds the list: members, and people outside the church you only know by a name and an email. Without a list, the reminder goes to every member. Removing someone can be undone for five seconds with a simple Undo.
Two gestures worth knowing
- Open and join: on a closed room, a single button opens it and takes you in.
- Tap the video (phone): the header and the bar fade away, the whole screen for the faces; one tap brings them back. The screen stays awake during the meeting.