Resetting slide settings globally

[Dangthrimble]

Hi,

Thanks for version 5.

I was using EasySlides in my previous church and have kept a copy of the songs for use in my new church, however I am struggling to adapt the settings. I can set individual settings on each song, but I would rather set a new default for all the songs. I have created a template and saved in to Default.est, also making sure any other templates have been deleted. But each time I go into EasySlides v5.0.1 all the slides come up with the old settings. How can I easily apply the new defaults to all the songs without using individual settings on each song and selecting the default template?

Thanks

[wk]

Hi

Default settings for each item (apart from infoscreens) are combined from the database and from the schedule.

In Manage Database settings:
The font type, size and styles, headings and layout margins are set. Each database has its own settings and the reason for this is that, as an example, a database could contains only Chinese lyrics and the Chinese fonts are best displayed in a certain font/way than compared to a database with only English lyrics.

In Manage Schedule:
Show Headings, shadow, outline, colour fonts styles are set, along with backgrounds and the data panel settings. Each schedule therefore defines the way you want a service run, ie. all display fonts have outlines and the same colour backgrounds, etc.

So if you want all your items to look similar, set the default in the database first, and then set appropriate settings in your schedule. Any new items (apart from infoscreens) added to your schedule will have the same default settings as in the schedule, plus whatever was set in the database they came from.

Note that if you click a item on the database and set individual settings – those settings for that item will be saved in the database and will override the default database settings You can clear all individual settings in all the databases by Tools->Clear all formatting in the database. However, if you add the item to a schedule and click the item on the schedule and set individual settings – those settings are only saved in the schedule and not in the database.

There is actually no default template, though you can copy a schedule to become a template and apply it individually.

Hope the above helps.

[Dangthrimble]

Thanks for the information. How do I set the default background image?

[Dangthrimble]

So, to be clear, if I want default settings when a schedule isn’t necessary, I still need to create a schedule with those default settings and use it in those instances.

(Just tried updating the post above using the edit option, but the text keeps coming back as it was initially entered!)

[wk]

Hi

To set a default image, right-click on the image you want to be the default and select “Add to Default”.

When you click on any Database item in the Database tab, whatever is shown in the “Manage Databases” will be default. When you select a Bible passage in the Bibles tab, whatever is shown shown in the “Manage Bibles” will be the default. The Database/Bibles items you clicked on will then be combined with the settings from the current selected schedule and you don’t have to add the items to the schedule.

Hope the above answers your query!

[wk]

Hi

With the next easyslides 5 update you will be able to create a default template for new schedules.

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