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 Service

Creates a new service. New, Open and Saving the Service

Open Service

Load an existing service. New, Open and Saving the Service

Save Service

Saves your existing loaded service.

Save Service As

Saves your newly created service.

Recent Services

Displays your last files opened configurable here. Data Location

Clear List: Clears your recent files list.

Import

This provides the items you can import.

Settings: Import your configurable settings from another computer. Learn more about Backing up OpenLP.
Theme: Import a theme that has been previously exported. Importing Themes
Song: Import your songs previously exported. Song Importer
CCLI SongSelect: Import your songs from CCLI SongSelect. Song Importer
Bible: Import Bibles from another program, the internet or a previously exported Bible from OpenLP. Bible Import Wizard

Export

Provides the items you can export.

Settings: Export your configurable settings to a file to import to another computer. Learn more about Backing up OpenLP.
Theme: Export your theme. Exporting Themes
Song: Export your songs. Exporting Songs

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¶

Layout Presets

These three settings are optimized for setup and live display.

Show all: Displays all of the panels of OpenLP.
Setup: Displays Preview, Library and Service.
Live: Displays the live panel and Service

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

Library: Hide or show Library.
Projector Controller: Hide or show Projector Manager.
Service: Hide or show Service.
Themes: Hide or show Themes.
Preview: Hide or show the preview panel.
Live: Hide or show the live panel.
Lock visibility of the 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. First Time Wizard
Update Theme Images: Changing screen resolution can have an affect on theme images. Use this to correct the images.

Songs

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.

Find Duplicate Songs
Start wizard for detecting and removing duplicate songs.

Songs List Report
This creates CSV file with song database.

Song Usage Tracking

Configure your song usage tracking. Song Usage Tracking

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. Alert

Settings¶

Manage Plugins: Provides the configurable settings to control your plugin’s. Plugin List
Language:: You can choose another UI 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. Customize Shortcuts
Configure OpenLP: Provides the configurable settings for OpenLP. Configuring OpenLP

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.