I can't find many of the Bible versions. I'm specifically looking for NLT which I have used in Proclaim for more than 2 years. Has there been a change made?
There has been. It was a long standing bug that certain bibles were available for use in Proclaim that should have required a purchase to obtain. This bug has been fixed, so now only the Public Domain bible translations are available. If you would like to use the other translations, they must be purchased.
And there was no notification sent to us when this 'bug' was fixed letting us know that we would now be required to purchase different translations?
Okay, I purchased the NLT from the Logos site for $39 now can you please help me access it on Proclaim. It still doesn't show up in the available translations.
As long as you purchased it with the account you sign into Proclaim with, you should be able to search for it in Proclaim. There is nothing else you need to do.
So every person that uses Proclaim will have to buy the different Bible translations. We have at least 10 people that use Proclaim. You are telling me that every person has to buy their own Bibles. Isn't that part of why we pay a monthly or annual subscription to Proclaim rather than buying a program? I have the main account for Proclaim and I have many Bible translations in Logos. Why doesn't that cover the Proclaim account? This is a very frustrating change without any notifications.
I apologize for the surprise/inconvenience this causing. I wasn't aware this bug was so long standing and in turn so many users would be reliant on this behavior.
A possible workaround in the meantime is to visit http://biblia.com and copy/paste the reference text.
In the meantime I will do some research to see why we're allowed to serve these Bibles freely on biblia.com and not in Proclaim. Thanks for your patience.
We literally just purchased Proclaim this week after extensive testing of the program and recommending the church pay for the license, in addition to our Media Shout program we were using. This is a major set back in my opinion and I certainly would not have pushed so hard for a software program that did not include the commonly used versions of today. We use NIV extensively. Now I have to decide if I want to cancel our year long paid subscription and go back to Media Shout, pay for new versions of Bibles for Proclaim (which are included in Media Shout) or start the research process over again for a new program to replace Media Shout. Very disappointing considering I've used Logos for years and have always been happy and impressed. Even recommended Proclaim to our sister church, wish I hadn't now.
All, I'm really sorry for the disruption this is causing. It was never our intention to mislead anyone to believe they were purchasing access to these Bibles with an on air subscription. After some research it looks like this regression was introduced in early 2014. This was a big surprise to me, we should have caught it much sooner.
Licensing Bibles to a group is uncharted territory for Proclaim. I'll be looking into this next week to see what our options are.
Thanks for your patience.
I agree. We had this change made Friday as we were preparing for our weekend services. What a wrench that put in our way of doing things and caused me over an extra hour of prep time to copy and paste and then try to have the version/reference show up correctly in the screen. Because you could not choose a drop down, it did not show correctly And looked sloppy and was not uniform slide to slide. I ended up using song and announcement backgrounds for it. Very disappointed in how this was handled. We previewed proclaim while it had this "bug" that we were not aware of, and presented it as software that we could quickly pull bible verses from WITHOUT FURTHER COST. knowing the extra cost would have been factored into our decision. Especially if only one user can access the translation. I'd suggest these bugs be fixed on a Monday and notifications sent out. Allow us to work through having to do things differently before the weekend.
