Sermon Manager - importing sermon text
When I import the body text of a sermon into sermon manager (using .docx format), the material shows, but does not save. When I close the particular sermon, the data just disappears. I cannot see a "Save" button anywhere. What am I missing?
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Sermon Manager is for organizing your sermons not for adding text to. Maybe you meant the Sermon Editor. If so, once you add the text to the sermon editor it should save automatically. Unless you change the Title in the Sermon Editor, it is likely being saved as Untitled Sermon, Untitled Sermon (2), Untitled Sermon (3), and so on. Did you look to see if it created that.
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Peter_G said:
When I import the body text of a sermon into sermon manager (using .docx format), the material shows, but does not save. When I close the particular sermon, the data just disappears. I cannot see a "Save" button anywhere. What am I missing?
I've just tried it and it worked fine.
What platform are you doing this on (I was using Windows 11)?
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Joey Midgett said:
Sermon Manager is for organizing your sermons not for adding text to.
Sermon Manager does provide the ability to import sermons as outlined in https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/8499423572109-Sermon-Import
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Joey Midgett said:
Sermon Manager is for organizing your sermons not for adding text to...
In my version of Logos 10 Early Access (35.0.520), it is the Sermon Manager which has the menu item, "Import." Sermon Builder doesn't have that menu option. The Help for this version states:
Import Sermon Content
In Logos 10.0 and higher, you can import Microsoft Word .docx files into the Sermon Manager tool, to allow users to bring content into Logos quickly.
You can choose to bring in a single .docx file or do a bulk import by bringing in multiple .docx files within the same import process.
You can access this feature in the panel (“kebab”) menu of the Sermon Manager, in both the desktop software and app.logos.com.
But I still cannot save it!!
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Graham Criddle said:
I've just tried it and it worked fine.
What platform are you doing this on (I was using Windows 11)?
Windows 10 64bit here, Graham. I can import the docx file, but when I close the window, the body text is not saved.
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Peter_G said:
Windows 10 64bit here, Graham. I can import the docx file
So you get an acknowledgment like this
but when you click Done you can't see the sermon in your list of sermon documents?
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Graham Criddle said:
but when you click Done you can't see the sermon in your list of sermon documents?
Yep. But I'm trying to import the sermon body text into an existing record. I get the "1 sermon created" window, and click on "Done." The system then displays the record, now including the sermon text. When I close that window, and reopen the record from the Sermon Manager, the imported text no longer appears.
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Peter_G said:
But I'm trying to import the sermon body text into an existing record
Please provide a bit more detail - I wasnt aware you could import into an existing sermon
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Graham Criddle said:Peter_G said:
But I'm trying to import the sermon body text into an existing record
Please provide a bit more detail - I wasnt aware you could import into an existing sermon
1. In Sermon Manager, select but don't open, a sermon record.
2. Under the 'traffic light' menu, click on 'Import'
3. In the pop-up menu that appears, click on 'Choose file(s)' and select the docx file relating to the selected record.
4. Click 'Open.' The confirmation window appears. Click 'Done.'
5. The selected record opens, and includes the text of the sermon, which can be edited.
6. But it doesn't save when it is closed, as previously mentioned.
(7. If, instead of using the "Import" option, one simply pastes the text from the docx file into the opened record, the record is modified correctly and saves when the window is closed.)
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I think I have followed your steps and the import worked fine for me.
What happens if you simply import a sermon document without selecting a sermon record first?
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Graham Criddle said:
What happens if you simply import a sermon document without selecting a sermon record first?
Thanks for your interaction, Graham. If I do an import to the Sermon Manager list without selecting a file, the program creates a new entry and it seems to auto-save OK.
Blessings,
Peter
PS. Sorry for delay... my previous post was done at 3am during a bout of insomnia. (I'm in Australia.)
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