Service templates

A template is a service's order you use again: its moments, their lengths and notes, and each team's usual parts. It holds no songs and no people. An empty Score offers your templates first, so a normal Sunday takes one press to lay out.

Whoever runs a service (the office or that service's producer) can save its order as a template. The list itself is kept in Worship's Settings, a tab staff and the Serving role see.

Save a service as a template

1. Open the service's Score in Worship.
2. Press Save as a template.
3. Under Save, choose As a new template, or Over one you already have to replace it.
4. For a new one, give it a Name, like "Baptism Sunday".
5. Add A line about it (optional), like "Baptisms before the last song".
6. Press Save template.

Trellis says how many moments and parts it keeps. Songs and people stay with the service. Parts Silas drafted and nobody kept stay behind too.

Start a service from a template

1. In Worship, press Plan this service on a service.
2. On the empty Score, under "Nothing on the Score yet. Start from:", press the template.

The moments and parts go onto the Score, ready to fill with songs and people. A part on a lane your church has since removed is left out, and Trellis says how many.

Start with Trellis's template

A church with no templates yet sees A normal Sunday on an empty Score: welcome, three songs, prayer, a reading, the message, a response, the offering and send. Using it keeps it as your first template, to change or save over. The office can also add it from Worship settings with Add "A normal Sunday".

Let a template start a service by itself

If your 9:00 service is the same order every week, the template can start it.

1. Open Worship, then Settings.
2. Under Templates, find the template.
3. In its menu, change "Chosen each time" to Starts Sunday 9:00 by itself (your service's name).

From then on, pressing Plan this service on a service with that name starts its Score from the template. The name has to match the service's name on the Serving calendar. Each service name can have one such template.

Keep the list tidy

In Worship, Settings, under Templates, the office can:

• Rename a template and change its line,
• move it Up or Down, which is the order an empty Score offers them in,
• Delete it. Services already started from it keep their order.

Other ways to start

A template isn't the only way to fill an empty Score:

• Follow another service the same day, so the 9:00 and the 11:00 run on one order. Who serves and who stands where stay each service's own.
• Start from an earlier service, then Copy its order, to begin from last week as it was.

A service that follows another says so at the top, with a link to open the one it follows. The office or producer can Detach… it with a copy, or Stop following.

See Plan a service.

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