Help with reading plan

Every December when I go to create my reading plan for the next year, I realize again how unintuitive and unusable the reading plan feature is.

My biggest complaint is that if I "edit" an existing plan, making a change is immediately applied. I don't get an opportunity to cancel or undo. That's super painful for something as long-running as an annual reading plan. There should really be a "Save changes" option if the reading plan is active. My workaround is to duplicate the reading plan so that I can "edit" and see how to access details of my current reading plan.

My immediate issue, however, is figuring out how to access the reference range I specified for this year's reading plan. I manually created that range as a text string, i.e.

Gen
Matt
Ex
Mark
etc..

It's a big intricate, not as simple as just all the books individually.

In the past, I could go in to the reading plan and, while "editing", and click the range. The dialog that appears would have that reference range in its list someplace so that I could copy it and use it for next year.

Is that no longer possible? Now all I see are "All Passages", a saved range of mine from a long time ago, and the pre-filled list of "Common Divisions." Is this no longer possible? Can I no longer access that text string of books/passages as I've been able to in the past?

Thanks much.

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Dave Hooton

In the past, I could go in to the reading plan and, while "editing", and click the range. The dialog that appears would have that reference range in its list someplace so that I could copy it and use it for next year.

Is that no longer possible?

That ability is no longer available, so I would post a separate BUG report.

Donnie Hale

Dave,

Thanks for the reply.

At first I thought your statement "that ability is no longer available" was just referring to being able to edit a plan where I'd hand-supplied a reference range. However, I'm now trying to create a plan as I have for the past several years:

- New reading plan
- Generate a Reading Plan
- Click "All Passages"
- Enter a "reference range" in the text box, e.g. "Ge; Ex; Le; Nu; ..."

Unfortunately, as soon as I put a semicolon character in that text box, the box border turns red - it's some kind of error.

So now I'm wondering if your comment meant that you could no longer create a reading plan at all using a semicolon separated list of references. Is that what you meant?

If so, do you know if that's "by design" - that the feature was intentionally removed? If so, then why does the "reference range" text box still exist on that popup? What are we supposed to do with it?

If it's not by design, is that why you suggested posting a BUG report?

Are you aware of any workarounds - some way to get something into the list so that I can pick from it?

I've been faithfully relying on Logos reading plans for ~14 years. If there's no way to get this to work, I'll not be able to use it for 2024.

Thanks again - I appreciate it.

Dave Hooton

- Enter a "reference range" in the text box, e.g. "Ge; Ex; Le; Nu; ..."

Unfortunately, as soon as I put a semicolon character in that text box, the box border turns red - it's some kind of error.

The last entry cannot have a semi-colon or comma e.g. Ge; Ex; Le; Nu

Give your range a Title and Save it for future use.

If so, do you know if that's "by design" - that the feature was intentionally removed? If so, then why does the "reference range" text box still exist on that popup? What are we supposed to do with it?

If it's not by design, is that why you suggested posting a BUG report?

If the range is not saved it cannot be copied from the popup when you hover the Read entry. I'm suggesting that is worth reporting as a bug.

The text box is cleared after the Reading Plan is closed (it is blank when next opened in a tab). There is no workaround if the range is not saved.

Donnie Hale

Dave,

Thanks again for the detailed reply. That did the trick.

It's still a bit frustrating that I gave Logos 365 individual entries as a reference range, but it decided to combine some and split some across days. (Yes, I know it's a leap year - I have the plan ending on Dec 30.) But it's ~98% what I want.

I'll look at a bug when I get a chance.

Happy New Year.