Customer Requests
Removing OpenLP as the middle man between Song Show Plus and Proclaim.
The ability to delete a file in Proclaim and remove all songs that are saved to music.proclaim.logos.com.
The ability to backup songs to an external file.
When I searched for the song "O Come, O Come Emmanuel", it showed one result and a "more >>" button. I clicked "more" and it then showed a duplicate result, so it showed two identical "O Come, O Come" songs in the results. I selected the 2nd duplicate and clicked "Delete Arrangement" because I thought I somehow had two copies in the database, but clicking delete once actually deleted both copies, leaving us with zero copies of that song in our database. It seems the duplicate was a display bug and they both linked to the same song record. Could you look into that display issue and consider adding a Trash Can feature to hold deleted items? I just noticed that if I keep clicking More, it continues to add more duplicates.
Another one of the songs I imported was "One Day". In the OpenLP xml file I imported from, its title is exactly "One Day [170]" (because our hymn number is 170). When I search for "one day" in Proclaim, the top search result says "One Day When Heaven," the first line of the lyrics. I know it's the same song because it says in the "title" box below "One Day [170]", but why does the search result text not match the title I imported nor the title Proclaim displays in the "title" box? It would help us to see the correct title in the search results.
I edited that song so its title is "One Day" and its hymn number is 170. On the song search results, could we make it also show the hymn number in front of the song title, like "170: One Day"? We have some songs with multiple versions from different hymn books (or from outside a hymn book), so having the hymn number in the search results would be helpful.
Undo arrow doesn't undo song edits.
Can Proclaim display texts from sources other than the bible, like Confessions and Catechisms, where we just choose which sections to show and it formats those sections onto slides? If not, that would be a helpful feature. It would have to auto-split the selected sections of the text into screen-sized chunks, preferably at periods or commas.
When we show a song, we always start with Verse 1, not a title slide. We'd like the title, author, and copyright info to always display on the top or bottom of that Verse 1 slide, but not on the other slides. But sometimes, Proclaim seems to forget those settings and reverts to showing a Title slide. Can we fix it so it reliably remembers that preference? It seems it would be safest if all those settings for songs, announcements, and bible verses were moved into a settings window revealed by a button so they can't be accidentally clicked, and so they can be configured once by an expert rather than each volunteer that sits at the computer.
While we do want to reserve space on the Verse 1 slide for the song's metadata, we don't want to waste that space on the remaining slides since that would make the lyric text smaller and off-center. Can Proclaim allow us to customize the Verse 1 slide layout separately from the other verses so we can make those other slides merge their lyrics and metadata fields together into one large field?
The little blue arrow on the bottom right corner of smart media in the Browse Media window doesn't have a tooltip to make it clear what it does if clicked, but it seems to enlarge the selected media. It feels familiar with other Windows programs that offer enlarged views that pressing Esc will exit out of their enlarged view, but Proclaim requires clicking the back arrow. I humbly suggest making the escape key collapse the media back to the normal view since that seems intuitive.
The "Browse Media" and "Customize Smart Media" windows always open to a size larger than our screen, so we have to resize them (maximize button) to see the whole window. Can you make those windows remember their previous size, position, and maximized status?
When I edit a favorited smart media, save it, and choose "Overwrite", it removes that smart media from our Favorites list. I think it should remain in the favorites list even if we tweak something on it.
When I delete a smart media from the media browser while I'm in the Recently Used Media section, the whole window refreshes and I have to click on Recently Used Media again to return to where I was. Can you make the delete function keep the current view and only refresh the panel's content?
When I am editing a smart media and right click on any of the textboxes in the preview area, the context menu has an item called "Customize smart media..." but it doesn't seem to do anything.
When I edit a smart media, save it, and choose "Overwrite", it does not seem to actually overwrite the old version because I then see both versions of that media in the Recently Used Media section. I have to manually delete the old version to get rid of it so nobody accidentally uses the version that contained the problem I've fixed in the new version.
I wanted to remove a Song from the current presentation, so I right clicked its entry in the list on the left side of the main window and saw a "Delete" menu item. My initial thought was "I hope this Delete button isn't going to delete it completely from Proclaim's database." I suggest renaming "Delete" to "Remove" or "Remove From Presentation."
On the bottom of the main window, it shows previews of what all the slides look like. If a song has 5 verses and I want to skip the 5th verse, I right click on that verse 5 preview image and click "Delete" from the context menu, expecting it to remove just the slide I clicked on from the lineup, but it deletes the whole song from the presentation. Maybe that "Delete" menu item should be renamed to "Remove Song" and/or have a confirmation dialog.
The hymn number appears on every slide for each song. Can we configure the hymn number to only appear on the slide that has the title and author?
We imported a song titled "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day". In Proclaim, it says "Henry W. Longfellow, Jean Baptiste Calkin" in the Attribution box and "test text here" in the Copyright box. But the slide preview shows ""I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" Henry W. Longfellow, Jean Baptiste Calkin test text here" in the "Credits" box. Why is it showing the song title in the Credits area when it's already in the Title area?
We don't normally use background images or any of Proclaim's free media content because the shapes and reduced contrast of the images behind text makes it harder for some people to read. We just keep it mostly black and white. Could a checkbox be added that makes the song search feature and media browser only show our church's imported or created content so it doesn't fill the screen with 3rd party content?
Can the sermon recordings be exportable as MP3 or some other compressed format instead of WAV?
Can we choose to only publish the audio recording instead of the video that contains the slides? Sometimes, our service doesn't involve slides that we'd want to publish online.
When I publish a sermon recording to logos.com, Proclaim automatically adds a post to our church's logos social media page that advertises that sermon recording. If I delete that sermon recording from logos.com, the post referring to the deleted sermon still remains. If it is intention that it's left behind, could you add a checkbox to the delete screen that also deletes the associated post at the same time?