Deleting The BookID from the Song Books

[admin]

So you want a check box to disable the BookID in the output Songbook RTF file?

[Jamie Simpson]

Admin,

After looking at the Song Book page.

Why can't the BookID be in one of the drop down boxes that are unused above it? It looks like there are 6 that are unused and just not make it a "must have" when creating a song book.

The delima when creating a songbook with Hoster and then putting it in a program like Word or Publisher is that you have to go in a manually tab the BookID on each page for every column.

My pages are two column and I have 76 pages. That's alot of tabbing to do

I understand the need for the BookID for the program, but I am curious how many people use it for their shows. I haven't since started using hoster.

Thanks for listening!!!

[Beavis]

Originally Posted by Jamie Simpson

I understand the need for the BookID for the program, but I am curious how many people use it for their shows. I haven't since started using hoster.

Thanks for listening!!!

i use to think the same until i changed to book id. i will never switch back


i think maybe MTU could add a export feature with different formats ???

[admin]

Originally Posted by Jamie Simpson

Why can't the BookID be in one of the drop down boxes that are unused above it? It looks like there are 6 that are unused and just not make it a "must have" when creating a song book.

If you look at those drop down boxes, they are all interlinked; until a selection is made from NONE, the next one doesn't appear.

However, BOOKID MUST always be at the end, with "...................." before it. This is HARD CODED.

I just talked to our lead programmer about this, and with a cursory look at the code he feels he can keep the BookID field where it is, and as a "separate" entity, but make it a drop down box with BookID/NONE selections. With NONE, we may also need to conditionally modify the RTF header code to not add the ".................." after the last text field. We'll look at this as "conditionals" are tricky and bug prone. If it looks OK as a "delimiter" at the end of every line, we'll just remove the BookID and leave the dotted line.

This will be addressed in Hoster 4.0, along with other SongBook upgrades.