Jason Silver

Friday, April 16th, 2004

ServiceBuilder Database

It would be so cool if I could export PowerPoint slides from ServiceBuilder automatically. I spent some time Googling for a way to do this but came up flat.

As it is now, it's fairly easy to copy the contents of the 'song book' export from ServiceBuilder into PowerPoint, and then set up the slides one slide at a time using the clipboard. That's what we've been doing thus far, but one would think that Microsoft would build this feature into fraternal applications.

I even tried analyzing the clipboard contents to see what special characters might indicate slide breaks. Dead end there.

It would be nicer if it was all automatic; the verses could be divided every four lines, for example.

Speaking of ServiceBuilder, I tried lowering the price: my pastor, Lane, suggested that more churches could afford it if it was well under $100. So I gave it a shot and sent out an informational newsletter, but only sold two copies.

I'm not giving up on the idea of a lower price, but I'm curious why more people weren't interested-- at least to send me a note saying so.

Oh well, I do believe that sales are directly proportional to traffic. In other words, the more people that see the ad, that visit the site, the more copies sold.

So I've got to get some more traffic.

~Jason