BUG: Liturgy section of Passage Guide selection criteria
Using the following PB as a test file:
6758.Perek Yomi Tehillim monthly.docx
I discovered that if a Psalm appears today or in the future, it is selected for the Passage Guide Liturgy section. If it was used earlier than today, it does not appear in the Guide. When looking for where a passage is used, this makes the section useless.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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MJ. Smith said:
If it was used earlier than today, it does not appear in the Guide. When looking for where a passage is used, this makes the section useless.
It is inconsistent that a future reading date is more useful than a past date. To emphasize the nature of the bug I added a Heading 1 section called Index of Readings and included the references to some of the readings with NO date milestones. The passage guide showed:-
- Day xx + Index sections for a future reading
- Index section only for a past reading
i.e. if the reference was in the Index it was included in the PG whether or not it was in a {{reading}} field!
You will note that the results for Logos lectionaries all come from an Index of Readings section...
Dave
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Thanks for testing this Dave.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Dave
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Before 5.2, the Passage Guide searched lectionaries for upcoming readings. As of 5.2, it now searches the Index of Readings, since this provides a complete listing of liturgical occasions with only one fixed location for each distinct occasion. For backwards compatibility, however, it will fall back to the old method if no Index is present.
I'm pretty sure the determination is just based on the absence of YearMonthDay milestones. Articles without such milestones are presumed to be fixed locations for a liturgical occasion rather than a listing of readings for a particular secular date.
Would it make more sense to have the fallback behavior just search the entire resource? If most people are just building lectionaries with alignment to the secular calendar for only a single year or cycle, this would make sense. If they're providing alignment for multiple years or cycles (as our lectionaries do), it could lead to a lot of redundant hits.
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Historical lectionaries would normally be built only for a single year. Ideally they would show only a liturgical date without a secular calendar date.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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If no alignment with the secular calendar is desired, just omit the YearMonthDay milestones. Those are only necessary if you want today's readings to appear on the lectionary homepage sidebar (or otherwise want to look things up by secular calendar date).
I haven't tested it, but I believe omitting the YearMonthDay should also allow it to work in the Passage Guide as desired.
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Louis St. Hilaire said:
I haven't tested it, but I believe omitting the YearMonthDay should also allow it to work in the Passage Guide as desired.
Just tried ... nope
Input .docx file
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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OK. I'm looking into it.
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BCP is showing now
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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It looks like the Liturgy section is still expecting YearMonthDay milestones to occur somewhere in the resource. It uses prioritization by this milestone index to determine the order the lectionaries are displayed in.
I'm going to see if we can change things to include lectionaries without such an index, but the best solution in the meantime is to build your lectionaries like ours with a section of readings by date and a complete "perpetual" listing without dates. It appears, however, that it works best to put the by-date section after the date-less section.
(Or if you really have no use for and don't want to bother with a listing by date, an arbitrary YearMonthDay milestone placed at the end of the resource after all the readings will also work as a kludge for now [:)].)
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Thanks for the research ... it gives me a workable solution for myself for now. I need to think a bit more on what I want to do with ones I share publicly and with ones like the ISSL which is none repeating.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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