📣 Weekly announcements

An announcement slideshow plays on the screen before the service. Each week, someone works down its checklist.

The checklist

• ⚠ Needs this week’s info — open it with Update and change what’s different, or press Same as last week ✓ if nothing changed.
• ✓ Ready — done for this week.
• ✓ Stays the same — slides like the welcome that don’t change each week.
• Skip this week leaves a slide out just for this week; Put it back in undoes it.

When the new week starts, weekly slides go back to ⚠ automatically, so nothing old slips through.

Long lists fit themselves

Prayer lists, events and birthdays shrink the text to fit, and if a list is too long for one slide it continues on a second slide automatically. The preview on the right shows exactly what you’ll get.

Getting it on the screen

If you use the Sola Studio app, it fetches the slideshow by itself — just press Get latest in the app. Otherwise press ⬇ Download slideshow at the bottom of the page to get a PowerPoint file that plays and loops on its own.

Adding and arranging slides

• ＋ Add a slide (top toolbar or under the last slide) offers every kind of slide: scripture, those serving, events, prayer list, birthdays and anniversaries, groups, pictures, a collage, plain text and more.
• Drag a slide by its ⠿ handle to move it, or use ▲ ▼.
• Go to (in the toolbar) jumps to any slide in a long slideshow.