[ACK] BUG: or how to hate a program that thinks it knows what you want to see

1. Open Lioy, Dan. David C. Cook Bible Lesson Commentary 2014–2015: NIV. Edited by Dan Lioy. First Edition. Colorado Springs, CO; Ontario, Canada; Eastbourne, England: David C Cook, 2014.

2. Note that it opens to today's date.

3. BUG: Use the scroll bar to move to title page. As soon as you let the mouse loose, you are open to today's date

4. BUG: Hit Home.. It takes you to today's date.

5. Enter page 3. Ah you can see part of the title page

6. BUG: use arrow to start to scroll to the top. It takes you to today';s date.

Guess what Logos. I don't want to see today's date!!! Maybe after midnight when there is no exact hit on date, it might lets me see something else. The resource behavior correctly when it was originally released.

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Rosie Perera

This is the behavior of all Calendar Devotionals, too. Always has been as far as I'm aware. It bugged me when I first noticed it. I don't think I've ever reported it, but I so rarely use devotionals that I guess I didn't care enough. But yeah, it's annoying and I think it should be fixed.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/724874#Comment_724874

Ah, Rosie you may be correct. This is classified as a calendar devotional while the equivalents published by Standard Publishing, Cokesbury and Abingdon are monographs. Even if these can be "fixed" by a metadata change the problem still exists ... there are times when today's date is not what you want to see.

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/724881#Comment_724881

MJ,

you were lucky to catch this behavior twelve minutes before it was too late!

I can't replicate: It opens to the title page which has a link to today, but this link is dead.

Clicking the Home/Pos1 key will lead me to an empty page.

The point is that the calendar milestones only cover Sundays, so May 10 jumps to May 17

So who wants to replicate the bug must make sure that the date is forced onto a Sunday (or do so on a Sunday).

Expected behavior on weekdays for this resource if one wants to go to "today" would be to go to the Sunday of the following week:

Mark Barnes

I find this annoying. I don't mind that hitting 'Home' takes you to today's date, nor that it opens by default to today's date. It does annoy me that scrolling to the top switches to today's date. It's annoying when you're trying to read the preface or frontispiece.

SineNomine

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/724887#Comment_724887

I find this annoying. I don't mind that hitting 'Home' takes you to today's date, nor that it opens by default to today's date. It does annoy me that scrolling to the top switches to today's date. It's annoying when you're trying to read the preface or frontispiece.

Bingo. I've had this problem with other calendar devotionals.

Kyle G. Anderson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/724942#Comment_724942

That is annoying behavior. To silence the buginess for the two resources in question I changed the resource type.

I'll open a case for improved devotional behavior.

SineNomine

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/728961#Comment_728961

I'll open a case for improved devotional behavior.

Thank you very much!