Disaster Recovery:
Yesterday was our first Sunday going live with Proclaim. We have been using Mediashout for the past 15 years or so. But we have made the switch to Proclaim.
Everything went great except for one mishap that brought up some questions about potential disasters. The person operating the presentation thought she was going to delete a single slide for a song, like she had done a hundred times before with Mediashout, and instead, deleted the entire song from the presentation. She froze in panic at that point, not knowing how to undo what she had just done. "Undo" didn't do anything. Fortunately, she had "deleted" by using a "Cut" command, so I was able to "Paste" the song back into the presentation for her, and everything was back to normal.
This incident brings up some questions about how to recover from accidental deletions and other mishaps. If she had used "Delete" instead of "Cut" how would we have been able to recover the song in the presentation? (Proclaim's support of "Undo" is inconsistent and not available in many situations.)
A related issue has to do with the vulnerability of presentations to team members making unwanted or unintentional changes. Does Proclaim keep an automatic backup copy of a presentation we can "Revert" to, or something similar? I'm not talking about making a backup of a presentation for archiving. I'm talking about an in-the-moment reverting to the version of a file from a few minutes earlier type of thing.
- I tend to reuse songs in Proclaim. If you go to add item, down to reuse item (one from the bottom), everything you have ever entered from song to sermon title is enter in there. Just select it. It'll have your background and font selection already from the last time used.
- Rhotondia: Potentially a good idea. I will try to remember to check there for things that have been accidentally deleted. However, I read in the documentation that any presentation you delete, also removes all of its items from Reuse Item, so that may not always be available. :-/
- Jeff Miles, That is true. The Reuse item will pull slides from your current and past presentations, but if it was deleted and doesn't exist on a presentation, it won't be present in the reuse items.