Reading Plan problem:

Philip Larson
Philip Larson Member Posts: 246 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I can't set a reading plan for the whole book. Seems like any plan I try to create excludes Tertullian and Origen. (Keep out the heretics, huh?!)

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  • David Taylor, Jr.
    David Taylor, Jr. Member Posts: 4,377 ✭✭✭

    I don't have that specific resource so I can't test it. Are you seeing this behavior in any other resources?

  • Andrew Batishko
    Andrew Batishko Member, Administrator, Community Manager, Logos Employee Posts: 5,408

    I can't set a reading plan for the whole book. Seems like any plan I try to create excludes Tertullian and Origen. (Keep out the heretics, huh?!)

    This is a long standing problem with how reading plans are created. It's caused by the fact that the reading plan generator only uses the very first referencing scheme in the resource for generating readings. The first referencing scheme in some resources doesn't actually cover the entire book.

    The best I can offer at this point is to manually create a custom reading plan.

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  • Bruce Dunning
    Bruce Dunning MVP Posts: 11,143

    This is a long standing problem with how reading plans are created. It's caused by the fact that the reading plan generator only uses the very first referencing scheme in the resource for generating readings. The first referencing scheme in some resources doesn't actually cover the entire book.

    I often wondered how this worked and why some books would not create plans but this explains it. Could the software for generating reading plans be adjusted at some point to check to see if there may be multiple schemes within a resource?

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  • Andrew Batishko
    Andrew Batishko Member, Administrator, Community Manager, Logos Employee Posts: 5,408

    Could the software for generating reading plans be adjusted at some point to check to see if there may be multiple schemes within a resource?

    Almost anything can be done. The question on any feature or bug is more a matter of priorities, and the importance/urgency of an issue compared to how much effort or risk is involved in implementing it.

    Judging from how long this has been a problem, I wouldn't hold your breath on it. It is however something that we are aware of, and would like to fix at some point.

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  • Mark Barnes
    Mark Barnes Member Posts: 15,432 ✭✭✭

    Judging from how long this has been a problem, I wouldn't hold your breath on it. It is however something that we are aware of, and would like to fix at some point.

    Reading Plans generally need to be rewritten from the ground up (and probably merged with Courses). Smarter boundaries and dateless plans are the most important missing features, IMO. I'd use Reading Plans very regularly if they had these two features.

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  • David Taylor, Jr.
    David Taylor, Jr. Member Posts: 4,377 ✭✭✭

    Judging from how long this has been a problem, I wouldn't hold your breath on it. It is however something that we are aware of, and would like to fix at some point.

    Reading Plans generally need to be rewritten from the ground up (and probably merged with Courses). Smarter boundaries and dateless plans are the most important missing features, IMO. I'd use Reading Plans very regularly if they had these two features.

    I echo the need for dateless plans. Sometimes I want a plan to keep me on track with reading a book but sometimes I don't necessarily want to read that book straight through day after day. This allows me to be on a track but not have a date attached to it.

  • Bruce Dunning
    Bruce Dunning MVP Posts: 11,143

    Judging from how long this has been a problem, I wouldn't hold your breath on it. It is however something that we are aware of, and would like to fix at some point.

    Reading Plans generally need to be rewritten from the ground up (and probably merged with Courses). Smarter boundaries and dateless plans are the most important missing features, IMO. I'd use Reading Plans very regularly if they had these two features.

    I echo the need for dateless plans. Sometimes I want a plan to keep me on track with reading a book but sometimes I don't necessarily want to read that book straight through day after day. This allows me to be on a track but not have a date attached to it.

    I totally agree with what is being said here.

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,757

    I echo the need for dateless plans.

    In some cases, Reading Lists can serve this function.

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  • David Taylor, Jr.
    David Taylor, Jr. Member Posts: 4,377 ✭✭✭

    MJ. Smith said:

    I echo the need for dateless plans.

    In some cases, Reading Lists can serve this function.

    You know I have honestly never looked at/used the Reading List feature.

  • Bruce Dunning
    Bruce Dunning MVP Posts: 11,143

    MJ. Smith said:

    I echo the need for dateless plans.

    In some cases, Reading Lists can serve this function.

    You know I have honestly never looked at/used the Reading List feature.

    MJ is a master at using reading lists but somehow they have never taken root with me.

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  • Philip Larson
    Philip Larson Member Posts: 246 ✭✭
  • Sean
    Sean Member Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭

    Smarter boundaries and dateless plans are the most important missing features, IMO. I'd use Reading Plans very regularly if they had these two features.

    Yes. Except for Bibles, I mostly ignore the boundaries in my reading plans (always auto-generated; I don't have the patience to manually create custom ones). I mostly use them to stay on track with the goal of completing a book by a particular date.