SUGGESTION: Personal Book Reading Plan

Bill Carroll

I don't know if I'm not doing something correctly, or if the feature just won't let me, but here's something I'm trying to do (that isn't working, but would like to be able to do in Logos 7):

I have created a personal book, a devotional.  Its a collection of prayers from various historical sources.  The book merged seamlessly into Logos and it can be found in the library.  So far, so good.  But it does not come up under my list of devotionals.  So I figured a good workaround would be using a custom Reading Plan.  

• Only its not being found when I type in the name of the personal book (no matter how many different ways I try). 
• Its not letting me drag over the resource (open resource option).  It just slides the Reading Plan over.
• And it doesn't let me drop a shortcut for it either.

So either I'm suggesting such a feature in the future, OR, if I'm doing something wrong, could someone help me figure out how to make it work.

Ideally, I would like it to appear on my left screen with my prayer list. [;)]

Andrew Batishko

You can both have the resource show up on your homepage as a devotional and create reading plans (that can be added to the left side of your homepage), but you need the appropriate milestone tagging in the PBB to accomplish each. I've attached a sample document to show how this can be done. 6886.test.docx

To make the resource show up as a devotional on the homepage, you need the following:

• Add DayOfYear milestones to the source document. See this page for details: https://wiki.logos.com/Personal_Books#Milestones
• When setting up the PBB in Logos, make sure to set the Type to Calendar Devotional
• Use the Library to prioritize the PBB so that is in the top 5 of any other calendar devotionals in your library.
• Refresh the home page (F5), and the PBB should show up if you included today's date as one of the DayOfYear milestones.

To enable the resource for reading plans, you need the following:

• Add some kind of milestone to the source document. I don't believe that the DayOfYear or YearMonthDay milestones are supported, but page number could work just fine. Then you should be able to generate a reading plan, and it'll split the document by page number.

I hope that helps!