• I was wondering if there was a specific place for feature requests / suggestions? Quite simply, I wanted to ask if Faithlife have any plans / would consider creating a song charts / set management system for worship teams. There are a couple of systems available, but don't quite deliver - they 'nearly' use chord pro, but in the one case the flow command doesn't work, which is a bit tiresome as we have to clone the song to edit the flows manually. But the huge win is that it updates across the board without having to beam or email songs. Having used Proclaim for some years and appreciating the regular updates and developments, I don't think it would be a big stretch for you guys to create this system . I'd love the opportunity to discuss my thoughts & wishlist in more detail please. (This was the short version :-) )

  • This thread is for "Bulletins". I find them completely useless. What am I doing wrong or what did I miss? I'm one to jump directly into the middle and must have missed something key about bulletins. Do you use the bulletins? If so, what is your use case and process flow to that use case after the bulletin is "published"? I've been meaning to ask the group for a while. I didn't know about sign posting before picking up on it here, now I love the thing! So maybe bulletins will be the same way. Thanks in advance for any help or tips offered. Blessings!

    1. My church uses bulletins as our main way of getting our presentation to our congregation before service ever since Covid kind of forced us to go paperless... well for the time being anyways. After I create all the slides and formatting for the service (this includes removing auto-generated signals that overwrite the graphics) I go into the bulletin before its published and remove any slides that are redundant for non-in-service viewing. Then I personally like to set it to publish the morning before our service. Now my pastor or office manager can grab the link to that bulletin and email our entire church all our links that are needed for that service. I used to print out one copy for one of the pastors that has vision impairment but as of the last few months printing the bulletin just shows empty squares so I have no idea what's up with that. For song lyrics they are useless but I kinda understand why they are like that. I only set up the sign feed for my church the last month or so and its mainly just for announcements where as our bulletin is basically just an archive of that weeks presentation. TL;DR: Bulletins for email/mobile viewing when not in the building. Sign Feed for rotating announcements after service is over and during the rest of the week.

    2. , thanks for the suggestion. I had suspected it would be good for email, even if just for announcements or after service as a recap. I think I remember someone mentioning that they add note pages to theirs for taking notes, something like that. Does your church do "subscriptions" to the bulletin? Or is a system wide push? Blessings,

    3. Of course! I honestly enjoy helping others learn about Proclaim's features. I tried to get members of the congregation signed up for auto emails but it may be too much trouble for those that aren't tech savvy (of which my church is many) so we just do a system wide push and then send it via pastor's email.

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    We have 2 presentation teams in our group & I'm wondering if there's a way for one team to use content slides made in the other's without having to save it as an image & then import it? Something like the song library

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      That is only for uploaded pictures, it doesn't include slides (content slides)

    3. We have recently created three teams and the only way I have found to use another teams work is to download it then import it into the other team.

    4. That's what we've been doing. I was just hoping that since the Song Library exists for this very thing, maybe we had missed seeing the capability for content slides.

  • We used to be able to fade my scripture slides onto our YouTube livestream via OBS and then back to a stage shot when we ran everything through one computer. Now Proclaim has its own computer in our booth and OBS and the Livestream have their own computer. Is there still a way to still accomplish this? Also, how do I add the new QR code for scripture? I was looking for a “generate” button.

    1. Yes, NDI can go over ethernet so you could setup ndi in Proclaim's settings and then on the OBS computer. https://support.proclaim.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/19864456649101-How-To-Live-Stream-with-Proclaim The new QR code feature is added with the button up on the right. And then you should see it render on the slide
      support.proclaim.logos.com

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    How do I set my default Bible? I would really like to insert passages into a content slide, but I'm preaching CSB and it ALWAYS comes up with NIV used to be ESV! I only have CSB elsewhere in my presentation.

    2. Whether you use the Bible passage item, or embedded references in a content, we should be remembering your last bible choice. If you are using embedded bible passages in a content item, you can add the version after the reference in parentheses. https://support.proclaim.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/19864564620557-How-do-I-use-an-embedded-Bible-verse
      support.proclaim.logos.com

    3. Wow! I learn something everyday. I didn't know you could embed scripture in a content slide! What's the advantage or reason to do this? The bible slide gives you so much more control over formatting and output choices....

    4. So yes, I was embedding in a content slide. It keeps defaulting to NIV but I did find a discussion somewhere about the bracketed version solution. I ended up doing that, it just adds more time but it worked.

  • Please advise, I am no longer able to long in remotely. I started getting the attached error message Monday night. Thank you, Freddie Dianem Kendrick Emerald Bay Community Church

    1. Sorry about that. I would try downloading the app again from the site to make sure you have the latest version https://proclaim.logos.com/download And if that doesn't work, contacting support (888)634-2038 proclaimsupport@logos.com
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  • Good morning. I hope this is the right place to post this question. If not, I apologize in advance for cluttering up this group chat. Anyone else out there having issues with Digital Media not picking up and displaying your own programming once you go "live" with your service? We have a couple of TVs in our foyer and nursery that are connected to Digital Media app. They would always display the "canned" slides provided through the app until we went live with our service, at which point these screens would begin to broadcast our service into these areas. This has been a problem for months now. We are using a FireTV in one area and an Amazon FireTV Stick in another. I have logged out of, deleted and reinstalled the app on both TVs. Nothing changes. We're still only getting the canned slides with no broadcast of our service. Very frustrating. I have reached out to support, but I get the feeling that they don't really know how to help. They keep asking me to connect to a different browser (how does one do that since this is an app on a TV?) and send them pictures or video of what is wrong so they can better understand. It just seems like they don't know anything about what I'm asking. That is also frustrating. Thanks in advance for any advice.

    1. Sorry for the issues, and I am sorry for the back and forth with support. I feel like what they are asking is for you to take your same sign feed you are using on the Fire TVs and try it on the browser on your computer. Then go On Air with your presentation and see if it works there. That might point to some kind of issue with the FireTV. In Proclaim, you can open your feed in Open > Open sign feed. And then once it is open, the 'share' button will let you copy the link. Additionally, this might sound silly, but you do have the option checked to "Show On Air presentations"? You can check by clicking the gear icon near the share button I mentioned earlier.
    2. Thank you, Jordan! Your instructions were very easy to follow. I was able to open the sign feed on my PC web browser, and in that scenario, the Digital Sign feed did pick up the service once I had the program go live. I also checked the settings for the two FireTV Sign Feeds, and all the correct boxes are checked, as far as I can tell. What might be my next steps to get the FireTV issue resolved?

  • Howdy y'all..have a bit of a weird one and I don't know if the behavior is intentional. With the release of the Picture-in-Picture view for alternate screens I tested the On-Screen Bible and while I enjoy it's presentation... while On Air and the OSB is live if I switch to edit mode, to add a verse or edit something else entirely, as soon as I go back into preview mode the live slides "refresh" as if its the first time its being loaded up. This behavior also continues when I attempt to add another verse in the same service item. This might be related but the type in scripture verse box next to the "add next verse" does not work with OSB. I am on Windows 11 25H2. Just thought I'd bring this to attention! Thank you proclaim devs for all you do.

    2. Hmmm, I am not able to reproduce, or perhaps I am not fully understanding. Do you think you could record a screen capture of it happening? I did, however, repro the passage box not being respected for OSB. We will take a look

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      I wasn't able to attach a video here so I uploaded it to youtube unlisted: https://youtu.be/0FQLrwLBWTE Did my best to mess with all the functions I was trying to use at the time. If you need any system specs: AMD 5800X3D / Nvidia 3070ti - Driver 581.80 / Windows 11 Pro (10.0.26200)

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      I have seen this also with proclaim. Especially with OSB, if you make any change while in edit and return back to the presentation, it will refresh or act like you just clicked on that OSB slide. I quit using the OSB slide because of this Ron

  • Since the last update, we are having problems when 2 people are working on the same presentation at the same time. We've not had this issue before. The program gets hung up for an extended amount of time and neither person can open the program. There are a couple of other glitches that were not there before the update, such as song lyrics overlapping when scrolling, not able to display lyrics/scripture on the livestream screens. We are loving Proclaim. Hoping to get these issues fixed. Thank you. Mary Ruth Johnson Englewood Presbyterian Church, Rocky Mount. NC

    1. Now you've got me worried......

    2. we shipped a followup release that fixed a performance regression on Windows. So make sure you are up to date and I think your issue should be resolved. You can check you are the latest with the about menu Help > About Proclaim

  • I installed the most recent update today, and now all my text on reused slides is bold where the original was not. I cannot un-bold it, unless I italicize it, which isn't really a solution. Anybody else seeing this?

    2. Thanks for your patience . Essentially, we had a bug with custom fonts, then now we seem to have a slight change in order of operations which is why we had to remove the all-caps fonts. But now, Proclaim seems to cary forward your fonts that have been used on the item before... and we are in a weird case since your Font Family name matches a font we have inside Proclaim... So it keeps trying to grab the old font, instead of the one we have inside Proclaim.. I'm going to try clear out these fonts from your presentations like you are suggesting. First I am reproducing the issue with my own setup so I can properly test this out.

    3. ok, I have cleared out those old references on your Sunday template and your last presentation. I checked your templates and things seem good! I will work on a real fix that we can ship in the future to prevent this from getting stuck in this state. But I think you should be good!

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      Thanks. I have checked and it looks good, except I worry that if I open other presentations or if I reuse the songs items, it might also revert what you have done. Will see how it goes with this week's presentation. Now that it is Advent, we have additional slides that is taken from another template - Template - Additional Slides. So far, when I check on that template it seems to be ok, so not sure how it will affect this week's presentation.