Joshua Riggs walks through adding custom colors to Planning Center Services. Set up color rules in Plans > Settings to organize your service items, like blue for songs and green for speaking parts. Each team member needs to enable the custom colors option to see them.
Hey everybody, how's it going? I'm Joshua. I'm the creator of WorshipResources.Church. We help you discover and learn how to use quality resources to make your church better. If I can help you in any way, I'd love to connect with you in the comments. Today we're going to talk about Planning Center services and how you can customize the look using color to help things stand out. Okay, I'm going to show you how it's done. Now first of all, I'm gonna go to plans and we're gonna change to the new plan page. So I'm gonna click try it now. Now if you are an admin or an editor, you'll be able to see this currently, but eventually everyone will be on the new plans page. I'm gonna click try it now and here I am in the new plans page. So I'm gonna go back to plans and click the gear on the top right and then click settings. Okay, so I'm editing the settings for Adult Worship. I'm gonna scroll down, see where it says item row colors. They already have 3 set up for headers, songs, and media, so I'm gonna go ahead and change the color of these. I'm gonna click gray, save. I want the songs to be blue. I'm gonna save. And media, we will leave them as white because we actually don't use media files very often. Now I did notice that if you click on a color and you don't click save, then it won't save for you. So make sure you click save. Okay, so now I'm gonna go back to the plan and I'm gonna go to this first plan here and we'll see if we have some color. And there's no color. The reason is every user has to say that they want to see the color. So even if you set this up as an admin, your team is not gonna see it unless they do this step. On the top right, click the dropdown and then check the box "Use custom item row colors." And you can see as I check it, then the colors show up. Okay, so now I have my blue and all the songs stand out really nicely. But what if I want to add a custom color for these? Well, go back to plans, click on the gear, go to settings, and then right here where it says add, click add, and then you can put in a title. I'm gonna put in a title of something that we always use. For instance, announcements. And I want announcements to be green. So I'm gonna click Save. Now I'm gonna go back to the plan and just see if it's working. And yes. Now you'll notice that offering and announcements turned green, and that's because I defined the word announcements to be green. So anytime announcements is used in a description, that's gonna show up green. I'll show you specifically with sermon bumper and sermon. 'Cause I want sermon bumper, I want all of our video files to be red. Okay, so I'm gonna go back up to plans, select the gear, go to settings. Scroll down, I'm gonna click Add, and we're gonna say Sermon, and that's gonna be green 'cause I want all of our speaking items to be green, so announcements, offering, sermon, et cetera. And then I'm gonna add another one for Sermon Bumper. I want that to be red. And I'm gonna add one more for countdown video. I want that also to be red. Okay, so now I'm gonna go back to plans and let's see what we have. So we've got countdown video in red, that's good. Offering is green. Sermon bumper, that should be red. And then sermon is green. The reason sermon bumper is not red is because I defined the sermon as green, and Planning Center's gonna recognize the first word of the description. So I'm gonna go back to plans one more time. Click the settings. I'm going to edit sermon bumper and just call it bumper. Save. Now when I go back to plans and select the plan, the sermon bumper video is red. So now all my videos are red, all my songs are blue, my headers of course are dark gray, and all speaking, offering announcements, and sermon are green. Okay, so that's how you do it. That's how you can have custom colors Again, you have to be an admin or an editor currently, but I'm sure later on in 2021 they will open this up for everybody. And also, if you want your teams to see the colors, they have to click the little three lines dropdown and check the box, use custom item row colors. Hey, I hope this was helpful for you. If you have any questions about Planning Center, I'd love to connect with you on our Planning Center Facebook group. Just follow the link right here and join us on our Facebook group. Hey, if I can serve you in any way, send me an email at joshua@worshipresources.church. And I hope you liked the video. If you did, go ahead and click like, subscribe if you haven't, and maybe share this with a friend. Hey, thanks. We'll see you back here soon.
