Photos are cropped square and stored on this device. Use a bright action shot — head and shoulders fill the frame reads best from across the room.
Paste the Planning Center plan for this week. It is saved for everyone, so anyone on the serve team can jump straight to it from here. The board still takes its order of service from the import below — Planning Center does not let a browser read the plan directly.
Best results from Planning Center’s standard report: open the plan’s report view and save the page (⌘S). That version keeps real columns, so lengths, song keys and who is leading each song all come across. PDF, CSV and plain text still work.
| Start | Item | Type | Who | Length |
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Start times are calculated from the selected service's start time. One plan covers all five services — every service runs the same format.
Rename a slot, add one, or drop one you never fill. Row order here is row order on the board.
Sits behind the whole board. Wide artwork works best — it is shown at 16:9.
Keeps names readable over busy artwork.
The roster, assignments, order of service and the live position of the service all live in one shared database — every device backstage sees the same board within about a second. The last good copy is cached here too, so the display keeps counting if the wifi drops.