6.8 Beta 2: BUG (Regression): Saved ranges no longer let you use special characters to force sort or

I always used to be able to keep my OT and NT Saved Ranges (which I use more often than all the others) up at the top of the list by making special names for them with ! prefixed to them, and the sort order would keep those at the top. That might have been accidental behavior that was never intentional, but whoever reworked the code recently broke that. And it was a useful little thing to count on. So I'd like to register a complaint. Now the prefix characters are ignored so the special saved ranges sort in biblical order with everything else, which ruins the effect.

Sorry I don't have a screenshot to prove this used to work differently. But ! New Testament used to be up right with ! Old Testament. Alphabetical order, I believe. But whatever. That doesn't matter. Just being able to force it up near the top so I don't need to scroll through the whole list to find my NT range to search within that. I typically tend to have quite a number of saved ranged. I deleted a few of them before this screenshot so that I could bring the ! New Testament one back onto the same scroll-page worth as ! Old Testament.

Oops, I take that back. I did find a screenshot. Here's a thread where I requested that the common ranges be moved to a section at the top of the list, rather than at the bottom. But then I found this workaround and documented it with a screenshot. Now my workaround is broken, and I'm an unhappy camper.

https://community.logos.com/forums/p/18416/138719.aspx

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Rosie is back!!! Hope all is well!

Mark Barnes

Sorry I don't have a screenshot to prove this used to work differently. But ! New Testament used to be up right with ! Old Testament. Alphabetical order, I believe. But whatever. That doesn't matter. Just being able to force it up near the top so I don't need to scroll through the whole list to find my NT range to search within that. I typically tend to have quite a number of saved ranged. I deleted a few of them before this screenshot so that I could bring the ! New Testament one back onto the same scroll-page worth as ! Old Testament.

The purpose of the new mechanism is that you don't need to save all those ranges, as they can be created at runtime without being saved. So you can safely delete all your one book ranges. In fact, as all the other ranges (apart from Gen-Ex; Deut) are already in the standard ranges section, you should probably delete them all. Then your standard ranges will be easy to see, and all will be well :-).

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

That might have been accidental behavior that was never intentional

Correct. (Nor documented to behave as such.)

but whoever reworked the code recently broke that

Or fixed it. [:)]

The current behaviour is working as designed.

Eli Evans (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/795983#Comment_795983

Rosie, my recommendation is to delete all those saved ranges that are just duplicates of built-in ranges and see if typing in the Find box works better for you instead. I think it will (once you get used to it), but let me know if it doesn't. Thanks!