New Sermon Addin PBB warning messages

I think the new Sermon Addin capability will address my needs with PBBs and sermon capture. It seems to do quite well at indexing, etc. However, I receive a number of warning messages (only warnings, it doesn't impact the compile).

I really noticed them when I compiled a set of about 10-15 sermons - it produced over 200 warnings. The warnings were mostly '[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt'. I stripped out virtually all the text and still received messages. Even with only the following text and using the default WORD template I received 16 of these warning messages.

Test

Sermon File Type	Sermon
Passages	Gen 1:1; John 3:16
Topics	Creation; Love
Tags	Examples; Testing
Speaker	John G. Smith
Venue	There
Date	September 28, 2000

The log:

[Info] Starting build for PBB:f767b38196fc474f9a3cbd905f4607eb
[Info] Converting
[Info] Converting C:\Users\Danny\Documents\My pbb books\my sermons\sermons on Chronicles danny parker.docx
[Info] Compiling
[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt
[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt
[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt
[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt
[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt
[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt
[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt
[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt
[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt
[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt
[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt
[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt
[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt
[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt
[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt
[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt
[Info] Discovering
[Info] Complete

Also, received multiple warnings whenever a line formated as a header of some sort in Word has 1 letter or no text at all on the line.

[Warning] Unable to apply topics to article 'A_UNKNOWN'. Article Length is zero.
[Warning] Article 'A_UNKNOWN' has only 0 characters.
[Warning] Unable to apply topics to article 'A_UNKNOWN_2'. Article Length is zero.
[Warning] Article 'A_UNKNOWN_2' has only 0 characters.
[Warning] Article 'A_UNKNOWN_3' has only 1 characters.
[Warning] Unable to apply topics to article 'A_UNKNOWN_5'. Article Length is zero.
[Warning] Article 'A_UNKNOWN_5' has only 0 characters.

Since I have not used PBB for a while as I waited on the Sermon Addin features, I don't know if this is normal behavior or not. The warning messages seem excessive - especially since it is not easy to use the log to find the actual problem.

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Randy W. Sims

[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt

This has something to do with the table formatting. Haven't really tried to figure it out. But if you delete one row from a table you will see the count of these errors drop by 2. One error for each cell of the table. It seems harmless. I've seen it in every build.

[Warning] Unable to apply topics to article 'A_UNKNOWN'. Article Length is zero.
[Warning] Article 'A_UNKNOWN' has only 0 characters.

This also appears harmless. This one happens when a body paragraph is followed by a blank paragraph (an empty line) which is then followed by a heading. Delete any blank lines that fall below body text and above a heading. Use formatting on the heading to add space there if desired.

I also periodically, regularly receive an error that the resource is locked and can't build. I have to close out and restart to build again. All resources are closed when this happens.

OT: One other issue I've been wondering about is the Speaker and Venue tags. Why aren't they in the index?

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/398442#Comment_398442

Danny,

Randy is right on both counts.

[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt

This has something to do with the table formatting. ....harmless.

FWIW, I used the sample file from the forum and changed the formatting.

[Warning] Unable to apply topics to article 'A_UNKNOWN'. Article Length is zero.
[Warning] Article 'A_UNKNOWN' has only 0 characters.

This also appears harmless. This one happens when a body paragraph is followed by a blank paragraph (an empty line) which is then followed by a heading. Delete any blank lines that fall below body text and above a heading. Use formatting on the heading to add space there if desired.

Yep. There is a wiki page explaining these, but instead of digging that up, I changed the file to build without warnings: 7522.2158.Sermons by the Fount.docx

Just change as appropriate.

OT: One other issue I've been wondering about is the Speaker and Venue tags. Why aren't they in the index?

Strange, yes. I figured they might leave them out when there's only one speaker and one place, thus tried with different entries, but no joy.

Danny Parker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/398454#Comment_398454

Thanks all. It's been awhile since I messed with PBBs. I should have gone to look at the Wiki.

Maybe they are still working on capability on the venue, speaker. Hope so. But I am glad they we have what we have.

Back to work on creating PBBs of sermons.

David R. McAllan

I think the new Sermon Addin capability will address my needs with PBBs and sermon capture. It seems to do quite well at indexing, etc. However, I receive a number of warning messages (only warnings, it doesn't impact the compile).

I really noticed them when I compiled a set of about 10-15 sermons - it produced over 200 warnings. The warnings were mostly '[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt'. I stripped out virtually all the text and still received messages. Even with only the following text and using the default WORD template I received 16 of these warning messages.

I had this same problem Danny. I found that if I had a header above the table (i.e. sermon title), then the warnings never showed up. In other words, the table seems to operate better within the sermon, than "outside it" if that makes sense. Also, on this example, I prefer to have borders on the table, but it works without them too.

3857.Sermon.zip

Danny Parker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/398636#Comment_398636

It must have a bit of a problem with tables. I set the table layout with a default width (for the table and the columns) and it resolved all my warning messages.

I have fought miscellaneous issues as I have 8 years worth of Word files. I have yet to have a problem with it compiling - just the annoying warnings (especially for someone obsessive). But I have gotten rid of them all - at least so far.

SteveF

'[Warning] Failed to interpret width value: 0pt'.

This is addressed here:

http://wiki.logos.com/PB_%E2%80%93_Warnings_$26_Errors

look for

Warning caused by Tables

Follow its instructions and this problem will disappear. It is caused by the Use of the "table" to format these Sermon File codes.

EDIT: It looks like you also solved this while I was posting

Danny Parker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/398638#Comment_398638

Great Wiki article. Wish I had seen it before I figured most of it out independently -story of my life [8-)]. I did pick up some additional hints as well. Thanks.