I would like to make a weekly calendar devotional / reading plan. Instead of the Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE HE@dayofyear command, what I need is a @weekofyear calendar command. Is that possible?
Wyn - I don't know if it is possible or not. If there isn't a specific command, you could always set the days @ a week apart. For example: January 1, January 8, etc.
you could always set the days @ a week apart. For example: January 1, January 8, etc.
But if you set the days a week apart, I don't think it would open to the right spot, if the day was in between.
Wyn - I am not positive on this, but I think that I am right. If you create a day-of-year calendar, "January 1st" can become any day of the year that you want when you create a reading plan. If you start on March 17, Logos changes everything around that starting date. I believe the same thing would happen with this.
Hopefully someone with more experience on this will chime in. [:)]
Assuming you want to make a Personal Book you will be restricted to the existing datatype DayOfYear as users cannot create new ones.
If you set milestones separated by 7 days it will not work. Set milestones for each day and it will work e.g.
[[@DayOfYear:January 1]]
[[@DayOfYear:January 2]] [[@DayOfYear:January 3]] [[@DayOfYear:January 4]] [[@DayOfYear:January 5]] [[@DayOfYear:January 6]] [[@DayOfYear:January 7]]
It is always challenging to approach a new year and to realize anew that our days upon this earth are so rapidly passing. How important it is that we pause with the psalmist and pray for a “heart of wisdom” that will enable us this year to live each new day in a way that brings all glory to our God.[[@DayOfYear:January 8]]
[[@DayOfYear:January 9]] [[@DayOfYear:January 10]] [[@DayOfYear:January 11]] [[@DayOfYear:January 12]] [[@DayOfYear:January 13]] [[@DayOfYear:January 14]]
In January of 1874, the many friends of Frances Ridley Havergal received a New Year’s greeting with the heading, “A Happy New Year! Ever Such May it Be!”Osbeck, K. W. (1990). Amazing grace : 366 inspiring hymn stories for daily devotions (10). Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel Publications.
Dave -
Thanks for your post - its given me something to think about. [:)] I hope you don't mind a follow up question...
It seems to me that there are two ways to approach this. A calendar devotion is a resource which when you open it, it takes you to the date on the calendar (right?) So If it is September 4th, the book will automatically open to the September 4th reading, even if you did NOT read any of July or August.
A reading plan, on the other hand, is more about completing content. If you skip a day, it is waiting for you when you return. Calendar devotionals can be set up for readings on days other than the given calendar date (see screen shot below).
My question is this: If you were wanting to create a weekly devotional, could you set it up by just skipping every six days in your personal book and creating a once-a-week reading plan? Do you know that this wouldn't work?
OK - I tried it out and it doesn't work... Sorry. Working on a couple of other ideas. Maybe one will work out.[:S]
Wyn -
I think I found a solution. I created a document with 52 "pages" (using the syntax [[@Page:1]]) I then create a reading plan, starting every Sunday, running for a year. Each page became its own reading. There was a slight glitch in that it skipped what would have been week 51. Week 52 became 51 (and 53 became 52).
[EDIT: I changed the reading plan from "one year" to "52 weeks" and everything worked out just fine.]
2235.Weekly devotional trial.docx
I think I found a solution. I created a document with 52 "pages" (
I didn't have time to try a reading plan on my suggestion, but that is a very elegant solution.
Thanks. In case anyone has a desire to create such a plan, I attached the .docx file in my last post.
Hmmm.... Thanks for these good suggestions. I will work on this. I like the Reading Plan idea. I think that may be the best solution. I was thinking of using a Lectionary too, since my goal is to set up for reading the Jewish Parashah, so that will year specific (since we dont have a built-in Jewish calendar available in Logos). But the simplest solution would be a reading plan. Thanks for helping me think through this.
I created a document with 52 "pages" (using the syntax [[@Page:1]]) I then create a reading plan, starting every Sunday, running for a year. Each page became its own reading.
I have been working on this, but am still a bit confused. Can you help me by filling in the details a bit? Do I make a PB from your (or similar) docx file? If so, what type of PB is it? Calendar Devotional? Monograph? Then I assume I set up a reading a plan with that document selected under "all passages". I have never set up a reading plan before, so that is a bit confusing to me. I just want the scripture sections to be listed every Saturday - it looks like that is easily selectable from the drop down menu. Am I on the right track here? Thanks for spelling it out for me.
I just used "monograph" as the book type. As for the reading plan, you can see what I did from the screen shot below. In your case, you would change "Weekly Devo" to whatever your PB is called, and "each Su" to "each Sa." The finished product is found in the second screen shot. NOTE: Remember that I just created a blank document, with only "week 1," "week 2," etc. Your "book" will look much more like a book than mine.
Great !!! Thanks so much. This should work fine.
I have it working now, but is there any way to get something other "Page 1" to display when viewing the reading plan? It would be nice if I could have it display the name of the selection (a phrase) instead of, or in addition to, the page #. I can hover over the page # and see all the text & scriptures on that page, but having the page number as the only thing displayed seems a bit artificial.
Page is a quick way to split the document into 52 sections.
Another way is to have 52 headings (Heading style in Word) - these will also appear as a TOC in the PB.
You can also try 52 Headword milestones e.g. Week 1 - Description [[@Headword:Week 1]]
Thanks Dave. I will experiment with that.
The headword milestones can also be Headings (Word Heading style).
Headings work, as do the Page milestones, however the Headword milestones don't seem to work.
however the Headword milestones don't seem to work.
Is that a problem? Please upload the document if there is an issue.
