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#11
Repertoire Help / Re: Download Missing Files
Last post by dr_rollo - March 23, 2024, 02:21:52 AM
It's actually not necessary to submit a ticket. Just for understanding of that feature because I've sometimes wondering if this option does what it's expecting to should. After giving the sync option some time, it seems that all missing files were downloaded. Maybe I've been impatient sometimes ;)
#12
Repertoire Help / Re: Marker Sequencing
Last post by arlo - March 22, 2024, 11:19:52 PM
"If I want to place a marker half way down the page I cannot do it unless I am able to scroll that line to the top of the screen."

Are you talking about a situation where you want to put a marker halfway down the last page of the document and you can't scroll the document to that position because it can't scroll further than the last page?
#13
Repertoire Help / Re: Download Missing Files
Last post by arlo - March 22, 2024, 10:53:59 AM
Please submit a help ticket if you want to troubleshoot that. You can include an example of the problem, then send the troubleshooting info from a device that has the problem.
#14
Repertoire Help / Re: Document toolbar different...
Last post by arlo - March 22, 2024, 10:52:10 AM
The document toolbar is different if you are viewing the built-in lyrics field versus an attached document. Both versions are documented in their respective tutorials:

https://www.bandhelper.com/tutorials/adding_lyrics.html
https://www.bandhelper.com/tutorials/attaching_documents.html

Also, you can long-press any toolbar button to show a help tip.
#15
Account Help / Re: understanding of "Added Da...
Last post by arlo - March 22, 2024, 10:49:41 AM
Added Data users can add their own documents to songs and those documents will be assigned only to that user by default.

Added Data users can also turn on Settings > Account Sync > Personal Sync > Document Annotations to add annotations that only they can see, but if they are annotating documents that are assigned only to them then this doesn't matter.
#16
Repertoire Help / Re: Marker Sequencing
Last post by Turnaround - March 22, 2024, 10:15:31 AM
Quote from: arlo on July 07, 2021, 02:59:09 PMYou requested this via email a few years ago, and it's still on my wish list.

For the benefit of others reading this, you can make an automation track that jumps between different sections in whatever order you program. But Turnaround is looking for a faster way to program that sequence.

Of course you can also just copy and paste the chorus or any other repeated sections.

I have converted quite a few people to use BH instead of OnSong, but there are a significant number who use the "Flow" feature of OnSong who are not willing to make the change because of that feature.  It strikes me that there must be more than one BH user that would appreciate the "Flow" functionality in BH.  It's so handy when you want to rearrange verse/chorus/bridge sections in a song without a bunch of cut-and-paste or editing an automation track.

But to really do what I would like would require the way markers are added to documents.  One of the problems I encounter in performance is when a score has repeat sections.  When I encounter :|| I have to quickly scan back in the document to find the matching ||:, and if it's in a multi-page score it's not easy to find.  But if I had a marker for "First repeat" and had included that in the kind of "flow" control OnSong has, I can just put that in the flow control section of the document.  I could be on page three of a score and run into :|| , I then could just hit my foot pedal which would go to the next marker in the "flow" control.  So then my "Flow control" would look like Section 1, Section 2, Repeat 1, Section 3, Repeat 1, Coda.  Hitting a foot controller button would bring the appropriate section in my score to the top of the screen.

Another part of the problem now is that I cannot position markers in the score where I want them.  If I add a marker it will be placed at the top of the screen wherever the doc is scrolled to.  If I want to place a marker half way down the page I cannot do it unless I am able to scroll that line to the top of the screen. To place a marker there I have to edit the score and break out each section to start on a new page, then place a marker at the top of the page.

I'm hoping to find enough BH users that would benefit from this to encourage development of this feature sooner than later. 
#17
Repertoire Help / Download Missing Files
Last post by dr_rollo - March 22, 2024, 09:47:43 AM
I've set up a new device and the synch didn't not completing everything. A lot of files were missing, what is actually no problem, because when selecting a song, andf the file is missing, it ask you if you like to download. the missing file Howver, there is an option under Synchronization "Download Missing Files". I would expect that all missing files were downloaded when selecting it. But it doesn't seems so. Anyone else have the same experience? I like to avoid to check all Songs individually, or run into an issue when using the app offsite my home where eventually no WLAN is available.
#18
Repertoire Help / Re: Document toolbar different...
Last post by Turnaround - March 22, 2024, 08:50:05 AM
I should add that I don't see the Marker, Annotation and Switch Fit-to-Height/Width buttons
#19
Repertoire Help / Document toolbar different tha...
Last post by Turnaround - March 22, 2024, 08:38:11 AM
I'm trying to find out why the tools on the toolbar in the Document Viewer are different that what I see documented.  I'm running BandHelper release 2024-03-145 on an iPad 11, OS Ver. 17.3.1.  I seem to have a pair of transpose buttons (# and b), a button to switch to chord numbers (I-IV-V), a button tp speak the lyrics and a mystery button that I can't figure out.  Also if I hold the drop-down button the document will shift half-way down the document screen with blank above and the only way to get the document back full screen is to close the document and re-open.
Given the different buttons from the docs, I feel I must have missed a release note.  I can't find anything in the forum about this.

#20
Account Help / understanding of "Added Data" ...
Last post by dr_rollo - March 22, 2024, 07:09:39 AM
Let me first describe my workflow:
I'm adding a new song, add a document and an audio file to it, sharing this with my bandmates which works fine.

Now they like to add their own document to it or option B: like to do annotations which they should see only.
Both is not possible when they have only added data permission. I need to grant all data, but that often leads to mistakes which affects the other members.

The problem (from my point of view): when adding a file all users are selected by default. I would prefer that they only the user is selected who's adding the document. For optimal case this document should be listed at top, so it's displayed automatically for them when selecting a song. Otherwise all users get this document also synchronized and this could lead to confusion or requires additional action to select the right document.

What's about option B: to allow users adding annotations on documents they didn't added by themselves but only they see their own annotations synchronized with their accounts?