creating reading plans

I have created several reading plans in the past without any problem. Since getting Logos 6, instead of having page numbers per day, I am getting book outline headings. Also, it is not assigning a reading to every day even though I have selected "read every day." Also, as some other posters have noted elsewhere, there are significant variations in the length of the assigned portions. Do I need to change a setting somewhere? Any suggestions?

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JT (alabama24)

Hi Billy!

It might help to see some screen shots of your reading plan, and to know which resource you are using. What version of Logos are you using? What platform?

This thread may be moved to the Logos 6 forum.

Doug

Note sure how to do a screen shot. I am using Logos 6 on a computer with windows 8

Eli Evans (Logos)

Hi, Billy. You're running into a bug that was introduced in Logos 6 but has been fixed internally and should ship out in an update very soon. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

Doug

Thanks for the info. We will wait for the update.

Andrew Batishko

I think Eli might have been think about restoring a feature that let you limit the reading range by page number (read pages 20-250 in 4 weeks). That fix will be available in 6.1, but this will not affect the boundaries generated for the plan.

In your situation, the reading plan generator is working as designed. With 6, we made the decision to remove the generation of reading plans using page numbers as boundaries. That's because this resulted in reading plans that would end the day in the middle of sentences or in otherwise unhelpful places. Instead, reading plans will generate using the table-of-contents as boundaries. That means if the book has fewer table-of-contents entries than days, some days will be blank. It also means that some days may have short readings where table-of-contents entries are in close proximity.

We do have an internal tracking case for revisiting this issue and making improvements, but I do not have any information on when this will happen.

For now, the only alternative if you are not happy with the generated reading plan is to instead create a custom reading plan and define selections or page number ranges exactly the way you want.

Mike Binks

Andrew

This really does need to be bumped up the priority list.

It is not a 'Plan' if, because the table of contents is of the form

3 Title,

(i) the first point

(ii) the second point

then the Title (on its own) should be considered an acceptable portion of text for a days reading.

Nor should Logos shrug its metaphorical shoulders and tell us that is just the way it is for the foreseeable future.

Reading Plans are an advertised feature of the environment we payed for - they should work - at least in a reasonable manner. The current behaviour is ludicrous.