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Now that you have registered your copy of Visual Liturgy Live, you may want to upgrade to a team licence.

Here are the instructions for setting up your team on the new Visual Liturgy Live website:

1.Register your copy of Visual Liturgy Live using the form in the program.

2.Go to the VL Live website www.visualliturgylive.net and log in using the username and password with which you regsitered.

3.Click on the link for ‘Subscription Management’ in the left-hand navigation. You will then see the ‘My subscriptions’ page.

4.Click on the link ‘View Upgrade Options’ and the available options will appear.
Select the appropriate licenses for your Average Weekly Attendence and click on the ‘Upgrade’  link.

5.Fill out the payment details and click ‘Purchase Upgrade’.

6.You will see the ‘Payment Complete’ screen and a thank you message together with your order reference number. Please make a note of this number and click to return to the ‘Subscription Management’ page where you will now see a link to ‘View Team Licences’.

7.Click this link to generate new licenses for your team. You will see any existing team licences that you may already have generated. To generate your first or additional team licences click on ‘generate new team licence code’.

8.You will now create a user profile for the new licence. Please note that you are now entering details for your new team members profile.

9.Enter your original VL Live licence code in the first line, followed by the details for your new team member. Each team member must have a unique login name and password. When you are finished click ‘add new user’.

10.Once you have successfully created a licence for a new team member you can return to the ‘Subscription Mangement’ page to view your licences and generate more if required.

If you have purchased Visual Liturgy Live, you may be reading this from within Visual Liturgy itself. Welcome!

There are some important points to note about the initial release. First, the online registration will not be hooked up until the week beginning 21st May. In the meantime, VL will work fine without registration.

Second, some of the service templates are under development. However all the correct templates will flow down from online update in due course.

Finally, be sure to check online update regularly. To do so, run Visual Liturgy Live and choose Help – Online update. The initial updates do not require registration, so when the password dialog appears, you can just click OK even if you are not registered. If it is an application update, you will be prompted to close Visual Liturgy to run setup, which should then run automatically. Finally, to avoid the necessity for a restart, we recommend that you close VL Agent if it is running, before continuing with setup. To do so, right-click the Visual Liturgy icon at bottom right of your screen and choose Exit.

As I said last week, we’re in the final stages of testing Visual Liturgy Live, and our development team now have the Release Candidate ready. That’s the version of the code that is a “candidate for release;” in other words we put this version through its final exams and then allow it through to the release process, which culminates in the pressing and packaging of CD-ROMs. At this stage we wouldn’t expect to find any major problems that would stop the show.

The work that’s been going on since Friday last week is in three parts: adding content to the pages of www.visualliturgylive.net, testing the subscription and registration services, and preparing the database to be pressed onto the CD-Rom with the software. Continue reading →