Zionworx

Greetings - thanks for this forum and the software.
I have registered in our Church's name on my home PC. We have a desktop PC in the church. I am trying to have others involved in the preparation of songs for data projection.

How can other people in the church use Zionworks to prepare for Sunday?

Can they download software to their PC and do they use the same rego # and p/word?

When you say preparation of songs, I take it you mean the creation of the database? In which case, this is straight forward although there are some issues.
Each person should have their own version of zionworx and their own key.
The church data base is the master database and must remain so.
Each person does there own bit and brings a copy of their zionworx\data folder to church.
BEFORE you start on the church one, back it up. You can then import the data from the other databases using the import function, any conflicting songs will not be imported.
Once you are happy, others can take a copy of the church database to create a playlist to bring to church.

Bear in mind
1 Multi inputers means multi errors - so only use 2 or 3 people
2 Have strict guidelines on formats and second titles, lines per screen
3 Be very careful on songs with the same title eg 'Holy is the Lord' as any duplicates will be ignored, so you need some way to identify potential duplicates or actual ones.
4 It's best if you all use the screen resolution which also matches the projector resolution else you may find the what was 10 lines on someones pc won't fit the 8 lines at the church
5 BACKUP before you do anything major.

One of the things we have just started doing at Greymouth Baptist, is allowing leaders etc to remote desktop into the projection machine from home.

We were donated a copy of Windows Server 2003 R2 to run on the projection computer, and have just setup a wireless network in the church. It turns out that we can get ADSL internet for the same price as we were paying for 20 hours of dialup a month.

So if any worship leaders want to set up their playlists in ZionWorx from home during the week, it is just a matter of running remote desktop and they then have access from home, without having to copy the database to their own computer and all the rest (also doesn't matter if they have a Mac).

Be careful with your licencing. Windows Server 2003 R2 requires client access licences (CAL's) for the users that access it. The product comes with 5 by default, so you can only have 5 remote users. Also you can have three remote desktop sessions (1 on the console and 2 others, though you can connect remotely to the console with the "/console" switch to the Remote Desktop program (mstsc.exe). Not sure how Zionworx's copes with multiple similtaneous users.

Windows XP comes with no such restrictions - you can have as many users as you want, you are just limited to 1 concurrent remote session (to the console) so no CAL's or issues with multiple remote users.