9/2/2006 10:47:10 AM

Hi all, Some of you will probably have come across the web-based online service planning service called 'Planning Centre' being offered at http://www.ministrycentered.com It looks GREAT, but unfortunately at the moment you have to enter every song manually (or import one at a time from Songselect). The former is an impossible task for the number of songs we have and the latter is also impossible since here in the UK we don't even get access to the songselect online system at all. I have contacted the developers and they have offered to write a custom converter to import songs from SOME format that I can supply into their database. Trouble is....I don't know what I can offer them. Doug's XML Importer would be ideal if it worked in reverse!! So...anyone suggest a way to EXPORT songs from SSP to some text format or similar that I can send to these guys so they can write an import tool? Of course this is going to be of great use to ALL SSP users who are interested in this service, so I'm hoping I can get some co-operation going here. Thanks Dave

9/3/2006 7:47:04 AM

Dave,

Maybe the tech support guy's could help you here??

anybode else looked at using this planning software??

Maybe you could post a link here and others can check it out??

Rod

9/3/2006 7:48:50 AM

Sorry Dave,

Just found the link in your first post.....
http://www.ministrycentered.com


Rod

9/5/2006 8:55:38 AM

Really??? That puzzles me since when I call up CCLI there is an Europe > United Kingdom hot spot.

Does that mean once you follow those links there is no place to get to a SongSelect login? And why would that be, is there some political issue involved?

9/5/2006 8:59:27 AM

I didn't study it thoroughly but at first glance it seems to do, for a subscription, what we are doing today, for free.

It offers to do the emailing for you, why is that useful? Our whole team is informed, they can't improve on that. We send the schedule out when it changes, why is an online scheduler more useful than that? The worship committee meets to plan songs consistent with sermons; on-line planning is a step backwards from face-to-face meetings. And the user is supposed to create lead sheets? How is that done (we use existing lead sheets only)?

Do they need to do a better selling job, or is it just me being dense???