Slides that run themselves

Three ways to stop somebody having to press a key at the right moment: a slide that appears at a set time, slides that move on by themselves, and a running order you only have to build once.

Putting a slide on screen at a set time

Aria can show something at a particular time on the clock, without anybody standing at the computer. The countdown at 10:25. The welcome loop at 10:30. The giving slide at the point in the morning it always happens.

1. Open the schedule for the service.
2. Add a time, in 24-hour form, and choose what should appear.
3. Leave it switched on. Aria does the rest.

Each entry fires once a day and arms itself again overnight, so a Sunday schedule is still there the following Sunday and will not fire twice in one morning.

Giving slides their own timing

Any slide can be given a number of seconds. When it has one, Aria moves on by itself once the time is up — which is what you want for announcements before a service, or a rolling set of notices nobody should have to advance by hand.

Two ways to set it:

• Slide by slide, when one notice needs longer than the others.
• Share a section's time evenly, when you know the announcements get six minutes and you do not care how it is divided.

A section's total length is simply the sum of its slides' times, so the timer on the stage screen agrees with what is actually going to happen.

Saving your running order as a template

Most churches run broadly the same shape every week: opening, worship, notices, scripture, the message, closing. Build that shape once, save it as your template, and every new service starts from your sections instead of an empty page.

1. Set the sections up the way your church actually runs.
2. Save it as a template and star it.
3. New services are built from it from then on.

It is a starting point, not a cage — add, remove and reorder sections in any individual service without touching the template.