Reading Plan, you had one job ...
... to simply let January follow after December—in other words, just go with what is in the book!! 🤦🏽♀️
Aside from customizing a plan from scratch, is there anything I can do with this to make it follow the sequence in the book?
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Yasmin Stephen said:
Aside from customizing a plan from scratch, is there anything I can do with this to make it follow the sequence in the book?
This book has been set up as type calendar devotional so by it's nature it is behaving as expected, it is going to start at January and follow through to December. It follows the order order of the year from the beginning. to the end
Calendar Devotinals are not designed to beused with reading plans but to added to your direclty to your dashboad as card and the approrpiate reading will show up on the approriate day.
How well this resources behaves as a calander devotionlal on the dashboard I don't know as I haven't used it myself yet in that manner. I question it bcause the advent readings are not aligned to a date but instead ot a passage so I think the readings form this book won't show up on the dashboard until they are date aligned readings and so all odvent readings will be skipped. Given the whole book is not divided up by dates I personally question whether it should be set up a calendar devotional.
But putting aside that question, the short answer to your orignal question is yes you will need to set up a custom reading plan to get it to divide up correctly. You can't program human intelligence when it comes to some tasks, and some tasks if you want them done right, you have to put in a little bit of effort yourself.
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Simon’s Brother said:
This book has been set up as type calendar devotional so by it's nature it is behaving as expected, it is going to start at January and follow through to December. It follows the order order of the year from the beginning. to the end
I never realized it was actually a calendar devotional, so the behavior (while illogical for the purpose of the book) makes sense. It won't work well for me as a calendar devotional, because the actual dated part starts in December, plus it's back-to-front for the purpose of seasonal reading. Also, I plan to start the book before Advent starts (to go through all the readings), so a custom plan it is. Thanks for the insights.
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- Create a new custom reading plan
- Click the "today" link where it says "Add a reading session" and set the date to six days before the desired start of the reading plan (to account for the undesired January days at the top)
- Using the Add menu at the top of the new reading plan, choose the "another reading plan" option and select the reading plan that you showed in your screenshot.
- Use the delete button at the left side of the rows in January that are misplaced.
- Open the Short Daily Meditations for Advent and Christmas
- For each of the January days
- move to that day in the book
- select the correct date in the custom reading plan (Add a reading session to...)
- click the "Choose an open book" option in the custom reading plan and select the date (the one with the resource abbreviation)
This should give you your desired plan.
Alternatively, if you just want to read on the indicated days, don't bother setting up a reading plan. Instead, add the book to your Dashboard (via the Daily Devotional option in the Get Started section) or drag the book to your shortcuts. Either will give you a link to open the book to the current day.
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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Andrew Batishko said:
This should give you your desired plan.
Indeed, it did! Following your instructions produced the plan exactly as I wanted it ... thank you! 😊
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This is another good example of why we should be careful when we choose a Subject Heading for a new post.[:)]
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Roger Pitot said:
This is another good example of why we should be careful when we choose a Subject Heading for a new post.
You are right. If I was paying attention, my heading could‘ve been ‘Reading plan, you have your work cut out for you because of the resource type Logos chose for this book’.
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Andrew Batishko said:
- Create a new custom reading plan
- Click the "today" link where it says "Add a reading session" and set the date to six days before the desired start of the reading plan (to account for the undesired January days at the top)
- Using the Add menu at the top of the new reading plan, choose the "another reading plan" option and select the reading plan that you showed in your screenshot.
- Use the delete button at the left side of the rows in January that are misplaced.
- Open the Short Daily Meditations for Advent and Christmas
- For each of the January days
- move to that day in the book
- select the correct date in the custom reading plan (Add a reading session to...)
- click the "Choose an open book" option in the custom reading plan and select the date (the one with the resource abbreviation)
This should give you your desired plan.
Alternatively, if you just want to read on the indicated days, don't bother setting up a reading plan. Instead, add the book to your Dashboard (via the Daily Devotional option in the Get Started section) or drag the book to your shortcuts. Either will give you a link to open the book to the current day.
Andrew
Any advice on how to make this book into a reading plan? I've tried several times with auto and it doesn't come out right. I'm fearing I have to set each day manually but maybe you have a better idea?
https://www.logos.com/product/299143/daily-doctrine-a-one-year-guide-to-systematic-theology
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I would really like to see this feature upgraded in the future. I don't create reading plans very often but when I do it is a huge pain and never comes out right. It works great for the bible but anything else, at least for me, is a pain.
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Mattillo said:
Any advice on how to make this book into a reading plan? I've tried several times with auto and it doesn't come out right. I'm fearing I have to set each day manually but maybe you have a better idea?
https://www.logos.com/product/299143/daily-doctrine-a-one-year-guide-to-systematic-theology
Find the book in your library and either right click on it or select it and open the information pane. Then choose the "Start reading plan" option. This is an option available for monographs, and will create a reading plan based on the table of contents, which may work better for you.
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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Andrew Batishko said:Mattillo said:
Any advice on how to make this book into a reading plan? I've tried several times with auto and it doesn't come out right. I'm fearing I have to set each day manually but maybe you have a better idea?
https://www.logos.com/product/299143/daily-doctrine-a-one-year-guide-to-systematic-theology
Find the book in your library and either right click on it or select it and open the information pane. Then choose the "Start reading plan" option. This is an option available for monographs, and will create a reading plan based on the table of contents, which may work better for you.
Thank you Andrew. I have tried that but I don't think the book is formatted correctly. See photo. I only get 11 days of readying whereas this is a devotional with daily reading.
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Mattillo said:
Thank you Andrew. I have tried that but I don't think the book is formatted correctly. See photo. I only get 11 days of readying whereas this is a devotional with daily reading.
Right. Sorry, I didn't look closely enough at this. In this case that's not going to be a good option.
Unfortunately, this book isn't tagged as a devotional, so there won't be a simple solution.
It does appear that the readings are mostly aligned to the pages. You might have some luck using the Custom reading plan option outlined above and adjusting readings that aren't well set up. That will be kind of annoying to do though.
This does seem to be a Research Edition, so it does seem like it should have been set up with day of year milestones, which would help. I'll report this book for possible improvement.
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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Thank you sir
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