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Getting
started
Overview
- Praisebase
is a database application for worship teams. It provides a
system for keeping track of your songs, sets, and team members
and publishing feature that facilitates the creation of an
intranet website to share the information with the team.
Requirements
- This application will run
in the Win32 environment (Windows 95,98,Me,NT,2000,XP). It
also requires the Jet database engine. If you have installed
Microsoft Office or other products that use the Jet database
engine, then you will be ready to run, if not you can download
the jet engine here. If you already have the Jet Engine,
but you want to make sure that you have the latest version,
click
here.
Songs
To
add songs
- Click on the "Songs" button or from the menu select
VIEW / SONGS. On the songs screen, click "New" to
add a new song. Enter all of the relevant data on the "Song
Details" and "Base Text" pages and then click
"Save". If you have created and saved songs with
SongBuilder (.CLO files) then you can import those files by
clicking the import button on the bottom of the page.
Entering
"Base Text" - If you have worked with Songbuilder,
you should be familiar with the "Base Text" format,
if not, here is an overview.
Enter
the entire song in the "Base Text" pane. Optionally, label
parts to the song like "Verse 1" or "Chorus". The chorus
can be written out just once and you can probably just enter
the chords in one verse intead of all verses (though either
is fine).
Enter
the chord symbols on the same line with the lyric, not above
the lyric. The chord symbols must be surrounded with braces
{}. The program will translate the chords to superscript
in the HTML version.
Example
of how to enter a song in the base document...
{A}This
is {Bm}day that the {D}LORD has {A}made
The
Chord/Lyric versions that are generated use HTML so don't
use greater than ">" or less than "<"
symbols in your document.
The
key transposition buttons allow for quick key changes. Just
click on up or down until you reach the desired key. The
Chord box aids in quicker chord entry.
You
should always make the first chord also the key. You can
edit the chord list if you wish. Press CTRL + the line number
of the chord and it will be inserted. Press CTRL + Shift
+ the line number to add a 7 to the chord. Press CTRL +
ALT + the line number to add maj7. This is not a sophisticated
chord calculator, just a tool to speed entry, chords not
included must be typed in as described above.
To
edit songs - Click on the "Songs" button or
from the menu select VIEW / SONGS. Select a song then click
the "Open" button.
To
delete songs - Click on the "Songs" button or
from the menu select VIEW / SONGS. Select a song then click
the "Delete" button.
Sets
To
add/edit/delete sets - Click
on the "Sets" button or from the menu select VIEW
/ SETS. Then click "New Set". Enter the data and
click OK. Select a set and click "Edit Set" to edit
the name, date or team for the set. Select a set and click
"Delete Set" to delete a set.
Set
list criteria - Notice that on the bottom of the SET screen
there is a place to set criteria for the set list. By default
it is designed to show sets for all teams for the past 90
days and going forward 30 days. You can change it if you want
a different result (for example if you only want to see future
sets for a specific team. After you have changed the criteria,
click the "Go" link to refresh the list.
Working
on the "Selected Set" - When you have selected
a set from the set list, you can then add/edit/remove and
position the songs in the set. Select a set then click "Open
Set" or from the menu select VIEW / SELECTED SET (or
double-click the set).
- Adding
songs to a set - From the "Selected Set" screen
click "Add Song" and select the song you wish
to add.
- Removing
songs from a set -
From the "Selected Set" screen click "Remove
Song" and select the song you wish to remove.
- Positioning
songs within the set
- Select a specific song and then click the finger that
points up or down to move the song in that direction.
- Open
song (edit) - From the "Selected Set" list
you can also edit the song if you need to, just click the
"Open Song" button and it will work the same way
that it does from the "Songs" list.
Teams
Click
on the "Teams" button or from the menu select VIEW
/ TEAMS. From this screen you can manage teams, members and
their talents. From the list at the top of the screen you
can choose to work with all members or you can choose to work
with just the members of a specific team. By default there
is team called "Team A". You can change the name
of this team, but you can't delete it, you always need at
least one team in the dataase so you can create sets.
Select
a team to work with - on the Team screen, drop down the
list on the top and choose a team or select "All Members"
if you just want to work with member records.
Add/Edit/Delete
team - Click "New Team" to a new team to the
database.
Click "Edit Team" to change the selected team's
name. Click "Delete Team" to delete the selected
team.
Create
new members - To create new members, you MUST FIRST SELECT
"All Members" from the list. Then click "Create
New Member". Fill in the details and then click OK.
Adding
members to a team - To add members to a team, you MUST
FIRST SELECT A TEAM. Then the "Create New Member"
button changes to say "Add Member To Team". Now
when you click that button you presented with a list of members
to choose from. Select a member to add them to that team.
Removing
a member from a team - The "Delete Member" button
also changes (to "Remove Member") when you select
a team. When are working with ALL MEMBERS, you are "Deleting"
the member, but when are working with a team, you are just
removing them from that team.
Editing
members - In either mode (All Members or Selected Team
mode) the "Edit Member" button works the same, it
allows you to edit the member details.
Add/Edit/Delete
Talents - In either mode, you add, edit and delete talents
for the selected member. The Member table is the "master"
table for Talents. The "Talents" are related to
whatever member is currently selected. Use "New Talent"
to add a new talent, use edit if you need to change it later
and delete if you need to remove it.
Report
From the
menu select TOOLS / USAGE REPORT to access the report screen.
Set the date range and then click "Run Report" to
create a report based on the SETS that you have defined.
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