Joshua shows how to quickly build song lists in Planning Center Services using keyboard shortcuts, multi-select with Option-click, and search filters. He covers renaming headers, changing keys, and sorting by most recently scheduled to avoid repeating new songs.
Planning Center Services is one of the apps from planningcenter.com, and this app is an incredible tool that you can use to plan your services, schedule volunteers, and communicate with your team. In this video, we're gonna look at how you can most efficiently import songs into a service. Hey everybody, my name is Joshua. I'm the creator of worshipresources.church. We help you discover and learn how to use quality resources that will make your church better. If you like this video, click like and that little bell and also subscribe below so you don't miss any of the new content we produce. Also, I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments. If you have any tips or tricks for Planning Center, be sure to let me know. Okay, here I am in Planning Center Services. I'm in Planning Center Services and plans, and we're gonna add some songs to a plan. So I'm gonna go ahead to October 4th. Okay, so now we're gonna add some songs to our service. Now I've used a template here. To get me started. This is a template of our service, typical service. You can watch another video to see all about templates. But let's say I want— first I wanna change this header. I wanna change it to just music. So now I have this header. Now I wanna add some songs under music. Okay, so I'm gonna click— you can click this Add and click Song. That's one way to do it. You can also click the S on the keyboard. It's a shortcut and it will pull up your new songs. And one other cool thing is you can click Song and you can drag where you want the song to go. There we go. So it'll pull up your library. Now you see this little note at the top. It says Option-click to add multiple, or you can click Alt-click if you're on a Windows. So I'm gonna hold down Option, and this is the really cool thing is if you know the order that the songs are going to be in, you just click them on the order that they're gonna happen, and then they'll automatically be imported into your service. So I know we're going to start with Only King Forever. I'm holding down Option still, and then we're going to go to Never Lost, and then we're going to sing You Say, and then we're going to end with Living Hope. Now we don't do Never Lost in B. Typically we do it in A, so I'm going to change that to A. That looks good. Now I'm gonna click Add 4. So now you can see that it added all 4 of those songs in order right where I put them, right under the music. I'm gonna close this for now, and I'm gonna actually go scroll down, and because Living Hope, we're gonna do after the sermon as response. So now we've got Living Hope there. And I'm gonna actually take out this response song. That was just a placeholder. So I'm gonna take that out. Yes, I wanna delete that. Okay, now you may be saying, well, where's all the stuff on the left? In the old plan, and you can see this is still in beta, but on the old plan, everything's listed over here. Well, you might be seeing some of it, and it's here. So here's all my teams. Here's Files and Notes, and the new tab is called Contributors. So you can actually see who has contributed to this particular service. But if you minimize each one of these headers— sorry, I have lots, lot of people on this team— if you click, if you minimize them, you can actually collapse this whole sidebar, which gives you more screen real estate. Which is especially nice when you start adding songs because you can keep this song list open and it doesn't reduce your screen size. Okay, you also of course can search for a song. Let's say Waymaker and it will pull up the song and if you click on the song it's gonna add the song at the bottom of your service, and then if you click these little handles, you can drag it to wherever it needs to happen in the service. I'm gonna close that for now, and now you see some quick ways that you can add songs pretty quickly into your service. One more thing before we go, and I'm gonna click Add Song here. Maybe you wanna see the most recent songs. This little calendar will be very helpful. So this is basically in order, so you can sort them by title or you can sort them by when they were last scheduled. Okay, and that— I use this feature all the time because I don't want to do too many new songs back to back, so I want to know what we've recently sung so I can add them to the order. Okay, I hope that was helpful to you. If you have any questions, be sure to put them in the comments, and if you have any tips or tricks about Planning Center Services, let us know. 'cause we're always excited to learn new ways and faster ways that we can create services in Planning Center Services. If you haven't yet, go to worshipresources.church to check out all the free and inexpensive resources we direct you to. We are here to help you discover and learn how to use quality resources that will make your church better. So I hope you'll check out worshipresources.church. Today. Thanks for watching, everybody. God bless.
