clustered parishes

[Janet]

I am using Power Church ver. 8, Windows XP for our parish. We have recently "clustered" with another nearby parish and will begin doing all of their office work. I would like to set up a separate file for this parish and wondered what would be the best way to go about it.

[NeilZ]

I am using Power Church ver. 8, Windows XP for our parish. We have recently "clustered" with another nearby parish and will begin doing all of their office work. I would like to set up a separate file for this parish and wondered what would be the best way to go about it.

I'm not a PC+ staff person, but I suspect that you'd have to buy another copy (or license) for PC+ for that parish, as (if I remember right) it is licensed for use at one location (or church).

That said, if you do get another license (might as well update to version 10 too), all you'd have to do is load PC+ to another directory other then the one that defaults during the installation.

Then you can use both systems on your machine.

[Janet]

I think they are using Power Church now so should have the license although I am not sure what version (it is all being done by volunteers at this time). Thank you for your help.

[Zaphod]

Everything Neil said is correct. Even though it's going to be one person keeping up with two churches, it's still two churches, so two licenses would apply. If they have a different version, they're self contained, so installing several in different directories on your hard drive would work just fine. You could have a PowerChurch directory, then inside there you could have PCPLUS10, PCPLUS9, PCPLUS85, PCPLUS9a, etc. Just don't install one version inside the directory for another. All sorts of weird things will happen then.

(ie. c:\powerchurch\pcplus9\pcplus10\ would cause problems but c:\powerchurch\pcplus9 and c:\powerchurch\pcplus10 would be just fine).

Hopefully, that didn't muddy the waters any.