Skip Pre-Service Loop Button
Tyler Rasmussen
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When going to "Preview" or "On Air", there's no easy way to skip the Pre-Service Loop if necessary. This is problematic because the position of the left scrollbar auto-updates as the slides auto-transition. If you're trying to get down to a slide beyond the Pre-Service Loop, it can be very difficult (yes, the bottom bar is somewhere it's easier to skip the loop, but not everyone knows this).
Request: Add a bottom that appears whenever you're in the Pre-Service Loop that says "Skip Pre-Service Loop" and takes you to the next slide (which might be Warm-Up or Service).
Examples of times we've needed to get past the Pre-Service Loop rapidly:
- Testing slides to make sure they look correct during setup or trial runs.
- Tech people discover after the service starts they accidentally opened the wrong service, and now they have to switch.
- Tech people who aren't heavily trained in Proclaim, who don't know you can Edit while On Air, and leave On Air to do edits.
- Randomness.
Request: Add a bottom that appears whenever you're in the Pre-Service Loop that says "Skip Pre-Service Loop" and takes you to the next slide (which might be Warm-Up or Service).
Examples of times we've needed to get past the Pre-Service Loop rapidly:
- Testing slides to make sure they look correct during setup or trial runs.
- Tech people discover after the service starts they accidentally opened the wrong service, and now they have to switch.
- Tech people who aren't heavily trained in Proclaim, who don't know you can Edit while On Air, and leave On Air to do edits.
- Randomness.
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Thanks for the suggestion Tyler.
There are actually a couple ways to do this today. You can go On Air from any item in the presentation by right- / two-finger- clicking the item in the order of service, then selecting "Go On Air". You could also select an item, then go to View > Go On Air from Current Slide.0 -
@Brandon Adent (Faithlife) OK, so that solves a couple of my examples, but our tech people are mostly lightly-trained volunteers, not experts in Proclaim. I, who use Proclaim every week verifying the slides are setup correctly, didn't know that this right-click/alt-menu option was available. It's nice to know now, but how am I to expect our volunteers would have any clue? We need something more transparent and simpler for someone who is running the slides during the services. What we like about Proclaim is how EASY it is to use, but this is one of the spots that isn't easy.0
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@Brandon Adent (Faithlife) (Windows keystrokes) PowerPoint uses F5 and Shift+F5. Proclaim follows this same usage. If you want to go On-Air from the beginning of the presentation, press F5. If you want to go On-Air from your current slide, press Shift+F5.0
