New stuff From ACS Technologies

ACS Workstation Install with UNC Path

One of the frustrations with ACS desktop software on local machines was always having to map a drive back to the server for the desktop application to work… well not any more.  With the 10.0 update ACS did away with needing a mapped drive to connect to the database.

When you install the application, install it from the UNC Path to your ACSNET directory on the database server.  This path is "remembered" by ACS desktop and utilized by the application and there is no longer any need to map network drives.  Yea!

Note: If you are using the Old scheduling applications Ministry Scheduler this product is destined for End of Life and will not be updated to utlized the UNC rather than a mapped drive.

ACS Broadcast

I have talked about ACS Broadcast in the past and just got word last last night that the Beta is now publicly available. Broadcast will pull data directly from Facility Scheduler and display the days’ events on a monitor. 

There are a couple views (summary and tabular) and custom video and still backgrounds can be added.  Here are a couple previews from ACS:

Summary View

Tabular View

More info to come as we dive into the beta.

Check out the ACS Product development bog for more information