Please explain the "worship team" concept in Proclaim
I can see how to specify a worship team when I import a song, and after that it looks like that would be a handy and useful way to organize the songs. But: 1) There doesn't seem to be a way to change the worship team after the song is imported; 2) I can't see a way to set the worship team for the day, so that after that all the imported songs default to that team; 3) If I add a song from another team, it retains that team, not the team for the day - unless I click the little icon below the team name, and then it changes irrevocably to the first team I entered when I started Proclaim. Does anyone find the "worship team" feature useful, and if so how do you use it?
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I was really hoping someone would answer this, so I could find out, too! 😂 I've just barely started looking at this, and I think it will help me a bit, but I haven't actually started using it, so I didn't want to respond. I think the only thing the worship team concept does here is to keep separate libraries of songs that the individual worship team might want in their library.
In my case, we have multiple worship leaders. The individual band members can vary, but the leaders generally pick from their own set of songs and have their personal takes on how they play it (sequencing, etc). I set up a worship team named for each leader and asked them to start putting their songs in the Song Library under their own name.
It should help clean things up for me, but like I said, I just barely put this expectation in place and don't know how effective it will be in practice.
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@Sean T , thanks for your response. We have a similar organization as you described, except that the work within Proclaim is done by the video tech, not by the worship leader. The worship leaders just enter their song choices and sequences in Planning Center and the video tech takes it from there. The Proclaim worship team system does not work well at all in our context because of the issues described in my first post (unless I'm missing something). I can see that it might work better if the worship leaders do the work in Proclaim like you are planning to do, but in our church I don't want to add to the worship leaders' responsibilities.
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This is actually very similar to ours - I'm working with our worship leaders to make this happen, but it's largely been on the tech team as well. However, I feel like even if that was the case, I'd still see value out of it as an individual leader will tend to be fairly consistent in the way they approach a song - so just getting sequencing saved could help. I do, however, feel it's ultimately a worship leader's responsibility to ensure the library reflects the way they want to sing the song, and since the worship leader determines the song sequence, it's critical in my mind that they maintain upkeep of the song in their library as it ensures it matches what they plan to do. Maybe if we were more organized and our songs came in early enough, I could just have the tech team shoulder that burden, but the reality of it right now is that we just have songs in the system that don't match what will actually be sung.
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