Brent Keith in Proclaim

25 days ago

Kaleb Kirton, I tried some to edit the bulletin to something useful. Here were my challenges. I was able to delete, delete, keep, whatever for the whole thing. Click preview and the headers on the graphics went away. So, like anything like Date of event, etc. if it wasn't on the graphic, title went away and insufficient information resulted. So, I thought I would add a text section and put the date there. I can't get it to "move" up the bulleting. I can shuffle them around on the bottom, but I can't insert something like that into the middle of a service section. I was just fooling around anyway, just to see if I could get it to something I could email. I think I could do that by making accommodation in the presentation for the bulletin in the future. But, when I got it to as good as I could get for now, I decided to print to a PDF for potential mailing. At least in my case, I did not get what was previewed. I got just the sermon scriptures with some note pages. All of that to ask you how you extract what you send in your bulletin email? Blessings.

Brent Keith Great follow up questions! I'll try and get to these in order. 1. Think of the bulletin as an exact mirror of your Proclaim service from top to bottom. Whatever order your slides are in Proclaim... they will be in that exact order inside the bulletin. 2. Correct, the bulletin slide headers do not stay outside of edit mode. I wish they did so in fact I'll make a request in the logos feedback board. 3. >"So, like anything like Date of event, etc." This is a difficult case to work with, not to discredit any of the devs, but I feel there is a difference of generation philosophy here. Proclaim itself uses "Signals" per-service item to interact with other people following along on Logos owned mobile apps. Unfortunately these a lot of the time auto populate as the slide is being worked on as it can detect things like bible passages, web links, or dates and time. These override the slide graphic in the bulletin and just provide a plain text format or a click/tappable link that will take you elsewhere. For example say I put a bible passage on a slide that's just informational... well proclaim recognized the passage, auto populated a signal, and then overrode that graphic from the bulletin to provide a link to that passage on Logos. I have to manually go in and remove the signal on per-service item basis if I want the graphic to be shown in the bulletin. It can be frustrating but the auto creation of them helps those who aren't tech savvy. I don't know if there is a solution for this. 4. Can't move a slide "up/down" in the bulletin because its not moved up/down in the proclaim presentation. 5. My church just sends the website url of the bulletin via email that way a member just just open their email, click/tap the link and it'll open right up to it. It would look something like: https://faithlife.com/My-Church-Here/bulletins/0000001 Printing to a PDF seems to have broken in the last year or so. Probably a change with how the slides are rendered on the website compared to pre-2025. Lots of information I apologize. This first support link gives more in depth info on signals and the second on bulletins from Faithlife's perspective. Lots of quirks to work around but I hope this helps in any shape. God Bless! https://support.proclaim.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/19863591084685-How-Do-I-Set-Up-Proclaim-Signals https://support.proclaim.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/19864460453901-Digital-Bulletins

Kaleb Kirton lots of good info there. Thanks! Yes, the beautiful slides that contained the scripture were replaced by the Scripture references. I will definitely learn about these signals and how to remove them to preserve the format in the bulletin. I'll play with each bulleting the balance of the year and maybe mail them next year and see how it goes. I saw the link but wasn't sure if it would open without the edit function, etc. I guess I should have just pasted it into an incognito browser and seen what it looked like. I'll give that a try.