The “Add Celebrant” drop-down list currently allows you to select any type of person, including adults, children, and legal entities.

In order to ensure the consistency of the data, it would be advisable to limit this selection to adults.

Once the person is registered, it is possible to assign them the roles corresponding to the celebrations that they can carry out.

Currently, the system allows you to select all the roles offered, without checking consistency with the information in the person file.

It would be advisable to implement consistency checks when assigning roles, according to the following rules:

o Mass and Confirmation: roles reserved for priests.

o Baptism and Weddings: role attributable to priests and deacons.

o Funerals: role attributable to priests, deacons and laity.

Since the person file does not include a specific field “Ecclesiastical Status”, it is proposed to rely on the “Title” field, which includes the values “Father”, “Abbot”, “Canon”, “Monsignor”, “Monsignor”, “Monsignor”, “Don”, “Don”, “Don”, “Dom”, “Dom”, “Dom”, “Dom”, “Dom”, “Dom”, “Deacon”, “Monsieur”, “Mademoiselle” and “Mademoiselle”.

This information does not always make it possible to determine with certainty a person's ecclesiastical status. However, they are the only structured basis currently available for implementing automatic controls.

Rules for correspondence between titles and authorized roles should therefore be defined in order to prevent clearly inconsistent assignments. The person in charge of the entry would remain responsible for verifying specific situations that these rules would not allow to be handled automatically.

The objective is to make the assignment of roles more reliable by exploiting existing data, without first requiring a change in the structure of the person file.

To facilitate the reading and management of celebrants, it would be interesting to divide the current table into three distinct tables, presented in succession:

• a list of priests;

• a chart of deacons;

• a table of lay people.

Column sorting should remain available in each of these tables, in order to maintain the current possibilities for consulting and exploiting the data.

It would also be useful to study the possibility of including, in the “Data Quality” table, a section listing possible anomalies relating to celebrants.