Hide all Chords Per User?

[Insider0203]

Is it possible to hide chords on a per-user basis? If there are in-line bracketed chords in the lyrics, singers who don't also play an instrument don't need to see chords. I know you can toggle chords on and off with the documents toolbar, but it would be nice can be set to off as a default for certain users. I also know there's the personal lyrics option, but then that would require copying all the lyrics over and removing the chords from them. That would be extremely time consuming.

[arlo]

I know you can toggle chords on and off with the documents toolbar

That's the answer. That setting is per-device, but any user that doesn't want to see the ChordPro-style chords can use that to hide them on their devices.

[Insider0203]

That's the answer. That setting is per-device, but any user that doesn't want to see the ChordPro-style chords can use that to hide them on their devices.

Is that per-song or if they do it on one song, they're hidden for all songs?

[arlo]

The chords would be hidden for all songs.

[Insider0203]

The chords would be hidden for all songs.

Thanks! Didn't know that.

That brings up a comment; it's sometimes difficult to tell what's a per-song setting, what's a per-user setting, what's a device setting and what's an account setting.

Personally, for hiding chords, I'd think that this setting should go with the user default settings, where they pick the default document, lyric size and etc. Then they could override that on a per-song basis with the documents toolbar.

[arlo]

Song settings are set on the song edit pages.

Layout settings are set on the layout edit pages.

Device settings are set on the Settings pages or the document toolbar and do not have a sync icon next to them.

User settings are set on the Settings pages and have a sync icon next to them.

Project settings are set on the project edit pages of the website. Also the contact info in the Stage Plots module is saved at the project level.

Account settings are set on the admin pages of the website.

If you want to frequently hide and show the bracketed chords, you can map the Show/Hide Bracketed Chords app control action to a screen gesture or a foot switch button.

[Insider0203]

Ok, that's helpful but if I'm understanding you correctly, hiding/showing chords is a per device setting, not user? So if they log into another device, they'd have to toggle that setting again.

That's why I still feel like this should be more of a user setting, not device. A non-instrumentalist singer most likely wants to hide chords on all their devices.

Also, visually speaking, the toolbar would seem to be a song setting since it appears on top of individual song and things like annotations, font size, markers etc are all song specific for that user. The hide chords and Chords/roman numeral buttons seem to be the only buttons in the toolbar that affect other songs. So I think the confusion is understandable and putting the setting to hide chords for all songs along with the other default settings is a good idea.

Either way, I'm nitpicking at the moment and just giving you something to think about. Amazing app nonetheless and thanks for the response.

[arlo]

I see the document toolbar as the place for functions related to the document viewer. I can put syncing the Hide/Show Chords settings across devices to my wish list.