Using Side-By-Side
Side-By-Side gives you the ability to view and edit up to 12 services at the same time.
With Side-By-Side you can easily move or copy songs, service elements, and scheduled people between services.
Using Side-By-Side
To access Side-By-Side, select the "Actions" button in the top-right corner above the outline.
Then choose the "Side-by-Side" option in the menu.
The selected Service will be displayed when you open Side-By-Side.
You can load services you've already created on the "Services | Scheduling" page or create new services within the Side-by-Side screen. You can load up to a total of 12 services.
If you load more services than your device can display at once, use the left and right arrows next to the "Actions" button to pan between services.
You can also clone a service from the Side-by-Side screen.
If you would like to clone or "copy" one of the services on the screen, select the "Clone" button below the service title.
This opens a window where you can choose when the new service will start and how many clones of this service you want to create. You can also give the service a title, choose whether the same songs will be used, and whether the same volunteers and roles will also transfer to the new service.
The "Retain a person in their role if they are the only one assigned to that role" checkbox comes in handy when you choose the "Use Placeholders" option for the volunteers, but have only one volunteer that fills a particular role in the roster for that service.
Side-By-Side Modes
At the bottom of the screen, there are three sets of toggle buttons that control how you interact with data in Side-By-Side.
The first toggle lets you choose whether you "Copy" or duplicate an item when you drag and drop it in another service, or whether it will "Move" from one service to another. The default mode is Copy.
You can copy or move any song, service element, or person/role between services; simply click, hold and drag an item to copy or move it another service.
The second toggle bottom at the bottom of Side-By-Side lets you choose what happens when you click on a song, element or person/role.
The default option is "Click to Edit", which means clicking on an item will open a dialog so you can make adjustments or change settings for that item.
The other toggle option is "Click to Select" which allows you to select multiple items. Once you have selected one or more items, you can then click, hold and drag all those items into a different service (you can Copy or Move, depending on your current setting).
The third toggle bottom at the bottom of Side-By-Side lets you filter which sections of the service you want to view.
Select "Outline" to only view the outline portion of the service. Select "Teams" to only view the teams and roles for the service. Select "Rehearsals" to only view the rehearsal for each service.
Switching Between List & Grid View
Side-By-Side also gives you two different ways to view and manage your team assignments (Teams and Roles): List View and Grid View. You can switch between these views depending on how you prefer to organize and compare your services.
List View displays role assignments grouped by team. Each service shows its teams as individual lists, making it easy to see who is serving within each team at a glance.
Grid View organizes role assignments into rows by role across all visible services. Instead of grouping by team, each row represents a specific role (like Greeter, Drummer, or Sound Tech), allowing you to quickly compare who is assigned to that role across multiple services.
Switching between these views can help you work more efficiently, depending on whether you're organizing teams within a service or comparing roles across multiple services.
Side-by-Side FAQs
You can view up to 12 services in this feature (but you need a massive monitor to do that, one of those fancy curved ones). Side-by-Side works best on larger, wider screens. The size of your screen will determine how many services can be displayed on screen at a time.
But you can work around this limitation by changing the zoom settings in your browser. If you zoom out (i.e. reduce the zoom below 100%), you may be able to see more services on the screen.
However, the more you zoom out, the smaller fonts become, making it difficult to read what is on screen. Try to find a balance between number of services and readability.
Yes!
Select the "Actions" button, then choose the "Send Volunteer Invites" button. The process to send the invites will work just like on the main "Services | Scheduling" page.