Template presentations and a Save As option request-and lost presentation?

I just lost the presentation for this Sunday - not sure if it was me or gremlins... but I KNOW it's confusing to try to re-use an old presentation as a template for a new one.

My secretary is going on a 2.5 week vacation (I KNOW! What was I thinking?), and so we're trying to get three weeks ahead on this - and my August 3 (2014 8-3 10:45 Communion) presentation vanished. I AM SURE I had done it this morning because I remember adding the songs. But this is the odd part - when I tried to RE-USE the songs, they weren't there (even though I had added them this morning), but when I added them as a Song, they were there under my material. So Proclaim recognized that I had used them, even though it couldn't find the presentations, I don't know if I accidentally reused the 8-3 presentation (I don't think so) or if it just disappeared.

It would be GREAT to be able to make some template presentations (we have 4 basic types of services that we use on Sundays, plus funerals and special services), so that a guy could open, say, a Communion 10:45 template, add the material specific for that date, and save it as a presentation for that date. I think that would be more in line with standard protocol for saving files, and it would make presentation creation more straightforward and less confusing.

Make sense?

And was there a glitch in Proclaim, or did I really lose my 8-3 presentation? It just seemed odd that it would still have a record of the new songs I used that day, but not be able to call up the actual presentation. Makes me nervous - if I discovered this on a Sunday morning rather than a Tuesday, it could be bad...

Larry

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Spencer McKimson

and my August 3 (2014 8-3 10:45 Communion) presentation vanished.

I just signed in as you and I am still seeing this presentation. However, if you do accidentally delete a presentation (or it disappears for whatever reason), you can go to documents.logos.com and undelete a recently deleted presentation. It will then reappear in your 'Open' menu.

As for templates, thank you for the suggestion I will pass it on. As a workaround, you can duplicate presentations by right clicking a presentation in the 'Open' menu and then selecting 'Duplicate'. Then you can make the changes you desire. You could also export presentations to a thumb drive using the 'Back up presentation' option in the 'New' menu, and the restoring them at a later date. This would allow you to save the presentation as a file.

Lawrence Becker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/612585#Comment_612585

Hi, Spencer,

You were likely seeing the 8-3 presentation that I RE-created. It has the Abundant Table theme slide in it and the correct scripture for the day - the earlier and vanished one had some basics in it, but no scripture and no theme slide.

I keep forgetting to duplicate the presentation before I reuse it - I just open, change the date and reuse. Is that possibly the source of some of my issues? I don't believe I did that with the original 8-3 presentation... but it's been a long day.

Larry

Spencer McKimson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/612592#Comment_612592

Is that possibly the source of some of my issues?

Sounds like it could be a possibility. If you want to check for the previous presentation, I suggest you take a look at your deleted presentations at documents.logos.com. If it is not there, you most likely did not delete it (or it did not get deleted somehow).

Lawrence Becker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/612594#Comment_612594

Not seeing anything there - I'll just try to watch more carefully what I'm reusing...

I tried making my own "Template" documents that I would just reuse, but I kept just opening them and renaming them. Or my secretary did - It didn't last long.