documentation/manual/source/menu_items.rst

Menu Items

The following are the menu items that are listed across the top of OpenLP. There is a brief description or link for their intended purpose.

File

New: Creates a new service. new_service

Open: Load an existing service. new_service

Save: Saves your existing loaded service.

Save As: Saves your newly created service.

Recent Files: Displays your last files opened configurable here. configure_ui

Clear List: Clears your recent files list.

Import: This provides the items you can import.

Settings: Import your configurable settings from another computer.

Theme: Import a theme that has been previously exported. import_themes

Song: Import your songs previously exported. import_songs

Bible: Import Bibles from another program, the internet or a previously exported Bible from OpenLP. import_bibles

Export: Provides the items you can export.

Settings: Export your configurable settings to a file to import to another computer.

Theme: Export your theme. export_themes

Song:

Print Service: Gives you the ability to print your service. print_service

Exit: Closes OpenLP. If there is an open service that has not

been saved you will be prompted to do so.

View

Mode: These three settings are optimized for setup and live display.

Default: Displays all of the panels of OpenLP.

Setup: Displays Preview, media-manager and creating_service.

Live: Displays the live panel and creating_service

Clicking on any of the next items will hide or show its respective panel.

Media Manager: Hide or show media-manager.

Service Manager: Hide or show creating_service.

Theme Manager: Hide or show themes.

Preview Panel: Hide or show the preview panel.

Live Panel: Hide or show the live panel.

Lock Panels: Using this lock will keep all your panel settings the way they

are when clicked, whether hidden or showing. Click this again to unlock the panels.

Tools

Open Data Folder: You can access your OpenLP data here.

Your Bibles, songs, themes and other items are stored here.

Note: It is possible to delete a Bible, theme or another resource you need. If anything is deleted in this folder it is not recoverable through OpenLP.

Re-run First Time Wizard: This will bring up the dialog box

to run the first time wizard again. wizard

Update Theme Images: Changing screen resolution can have an affect on theme

images. Use this to correct the images.

Re-index Songs: This rebuilds the internal song indexes to

make them work following code corrections. You would generally use this after a software upgrade.

Song Usage Tracking: Configure your song usage tracking. song_usage

Toggle Tracking: Provides the means to turn song usage tracking on or off. There will be a visible check mark if song usage tracking is on.

Extract Tracking Data: Brings up a dialog box to extract song usage data.

Delete Tracking Data: Brings up a dialog box to delete song usage data.

Alert: Configure an alert. alerts

Settings

Plugin List: Provides the configurable settings to control

your plugin's. plugin_list

Language: You can choose another language here or leave it on Autodetect.

Configure Formatting Tags: Provides the configurable settings

for formatting tags. formatting-tags

Configure Shortcuts: Provides the configurable settings

for shortcuts. shortcuts

Configure OpenLP: Provides the configurable settings

for OpenLP. configure

Help

Online Help: This is a direct link to OpenLP's operating manual.

Web Site: This is a direct link to OpenLP's web site.

About: Provides information, credits and license for OpenLP.