Save custom verse order in service item

[Raoul Snyman]

From the forums:

"Our worship leader sometimes changes the verse/chorus order of a song. It would be nice if he could have a copy of openlp on his computer and he can create the order of service with the order of the verses the way he would want them. Then he can send me a copy of the order of service which I could just use for the service."

"I agree - it would be nice to be able to specify a custom song presentation order for a particular service. That way we can also choose to only sing certain verses of a song or skip verses without having to jump around too much when presenting the song."

[Ken Roberts (alisonken1)]

+1

There are times when we have a service setup where one song may be shown twice - with the second song having a different verse order and/or different theme.

[Tim Bentley (trb143)]

You can clone a song in the song plugin to obtain a second version of the song.
Then you can have different orders of verses.

[Zacc D (zacc-drake)]

I would like to chime in on this.
We have recently moved from OpenSong to OpenLP 2.1.5, and are finding it overall much better!
This however is one of the feature that we miss.

In OpenSong there exists the ability to set a custom song order that only applies to a single service.
This is a very useful feature for a few reasons: Worship leaders like to change song orders around, sometimes we only want to do part of a song (eg, the chorus), sometimes a worhip leader decides that they want to start a song with the chorus instead of a verse...

Being able to define a song order that only applies to a single service is, in my opinion, a much cleaner option than having multiple clones of a song with different variations of order.

An even better, but much more complicated, option would be to replicate ProPresenter's arrangments feature...

[Danny (twazza)]

+1

When you click "Edit Item" in a service, it should have two boxes down the bottom:

Default Verse Order [ V1 C V2 C B C ]

Service Verse Order [ default ] OR [ B V1 C V2 C B B C C B B ]

[KarlRelton (karllinuxtest-relton)]

Completely agree with comment #4 - thats the one feature of OpenSong that we always used and don't see elsewhere!

[Donald Gordon (don-dis)]

This would be especially useful with long traditional hymns, where often we want to skip
a few verses. Danny's "Service Verse Order" seems the best way to do that to me.