Events

Events bring everything together for a live session. Group multiple presentations into an agenda, broadcast to different screens through channels, and create quick slides on the fly.

Creating an Event

Events belong to a team. Choose the team with the selector next to the logo, go to its Events page and click New Event, then give the event its name: the event is the team's from the start, and the event page opens. Outside a team, the Events page asks whose events you want and takes you to that team's. Only members of the team can open and manage the event.

Building an Agenda

An event's agenda is an ordered list of presentations. Add presentations from your own collection or from any shared with the team. You can reorder them, and switch between presentations during the live session with a single click.

Managing a Live Event

The event page gives you a dashboard for running your session. From here, you can:

• Select which presentation is currently active
• Control the active presentation (navigate presentation points, blank screen, autoplay)
• Switch between presentations as your agenda progresses
• See which channels are broadcasting and what they're showing

Multiple team members can manage the event simultaneously — everyone sees the same state in real time.

The app's usual top bar stays at the top, so the rest of the app is one click away. Under it, the event's toolbar names your team and the event and holds its actions: Add Slides, Add Channel and Event settings (the cog). Whatever doesn't fit on a smaller screen is in the ⋯ menu, as is Clean up Quick Slides, which appears once the event has quick slides. Full screen is the last button, at the far right. If the event loses its connection, the toolbar says so.

On a phone the event page shows one column at a time. Swipe left, or tap the round arrow button at the bottom right, to see your channels, and swipe right to go back to your presentations; adding a channel from the ⋯ menu switches to the channels for you.

When a presentation has notes, its row on the event page carries Notes in new window beside Edit in new window, which opens the newest of them, presenting, in a new tab, so the speaker can read them while the event page keeps running.

Full screen

To give the event all of your screen, press F or use the toolbar's Full screen button. The top bar and the footer are hidden and the toolbar stays, its button now Exit full screen. The team chat sits beside it, and a menu button appears at the left of the toolbar: it shows a dot when you're offline and opens a menu with the rest of the app. Press F or Esc to leave full screen. Full screen isn't offered on an iPhone, whose browser doesn't support it.

Channels

Channels and their settings have a page of their own: Channels.

Quick Slides

Quick slides let you create presentation content on the fly during a live event — perfect for unscripted moments like Bible readings, songs, or last-minute announcements.

Creating a Quick Slide

Click Add Slides on the event page to open the picker. You have three types of quick slide content:

• Bible — type a Bible reference (like "John 3:16" or "Psalm 23:1-6 NIV", or in the language of one of Chapel Screen's translations: "Juan 3:16", "約翰福音 3:16") and Chapel Screen will find the verses and build a slide automatically. If you don't specify a translation, a reference typed in another language takes that language's translation; otherwise your team's default is used, else your own, else the King James Version. You can also search by words ("shepherd") for the chapters containing them. See Searching for Bible passages for everything the search reads.
• Song — search for a song from the built-in hymnal. The lyrics are formatted and ready to present.
• Free text — a blank slide you can type anything into.

A song that needs a licence is added only when the event's team belongs to a church on the paid plan; the picker marks it. After selecting your content, you'll choose a theme, then either Add to List (adds it to the end of your agenda) or Present Now (adds it and immediately makes it the active presentation).

Managing Quick Slides

Quick slides are marked with a lightning bolt icon on the event page. They differ from regular presentations:

• They don't appear in your main Presentations list
• They're editable — you can tweak the content after creation
• When removed from an event, they're automatically deleted (unless they're used in other events)
• The Clean up button in the event header removes all quick slides at once

Converting to a Regular Presentation

If you create a quick slide that you want to keep permanently, open its Settings dialog on the event page and choose Convert to Presentation. It will appear in your main Presentations list and won't be auto-deleted when removed from events.

Deleting an Event

Deleting an event removes it from the team and cleans up any orphaned quick slides that were created for it. Regular presentations are not affected.