Description

The "Define Bible Studies" webpage is used to define the online Bible studies for a specific church such that a user of that church's Hub homepage can access those Bible studies. The Bible studies defined via this website should be saved in a BibleStudies.txt file (process is described later) that should be included with the other church files sent when the specific church's definitions have been completed.

If this webpage is used to define the Bible studies for the church, then the Bible studies input field on the Define General Info webpage should be set to use the Hub link (as opposed to another link on that church's website for accessing the Bible studies).

The user of the church's Hub webpages will see the Bible studies in a table showing the basic information from the "Define Bible Studies" webpage (with fewer columns).

If Bible studies are defined using this webpage and the Bible studies input field on the Define General Info webpage is set to use the Hub link, then the Bible studies image will be added to the Extended column on the Church Information webpage allowing direct access from that webpage to the Bible studies.

Procedure

The process for creating, populating and persisting the Bible study information involves the following steps:

  • The first time this webpage is accessed, since there is no previously saved BibleStudies.txt file and since the default seeded files for the church do not include BibleStudies.txt, steps 1 and 2 can be skipped and the process should begin with step 3 (defining the Bible studies)
  • If the Bible studies have previously been saved to a local BibleStudies.txt file, then the contents of that file should be copied and pasted into the "Paste here:" field overwriting the "Paste here:" text (step 1) and then clicking the "Populate table based on pasted Bible studies" (step 2)
  • If the Bible studies have previously been loaded to the server, then, as an alternative to the previous bullet, the contents of the BibleStudies.txt file on the server can be accessed by specifying the district/church number (e.g., Southern/437723) and then selecting the Download button
  • As step 3, new entries can be added to the table by clicking the "New Bible Study" button and filling in the input fields for that Bible study. This process should be repeated for each Bible study to be added
  • When all the Bible study entries have been added, the sermon/service information should be copied to the clipboard using the "Copy studies into paste buffer" button
  • The clipboard contents should be pasted into a local BibleStudies.txt file that will ultimately be included with the set of delivered files

    Creating and Editing Entries

    The "Set Default Values" command button is used to set the default values that are used to populate any new Bible study that is created using the "New Bible Study" command button. When the table is initially populated either by copying and pasting the contents of the local BibleStudies.txt file or by downloading from the server, the default values are copied from the last sermon/service in the table.

    The "New Bible Study" button creates a new Bible study and populates it with the default values. These values can then be modified as desired using the input fields at the bottom.

    Clicking a cell in a row of the table will populate the input fields at the bottom, allowing that entry to be edited as desired.

    Input Fields:

  • Number: System assigned number for the Bible study.
  • Church: Name of the church (typically minus the "Church" at the end).
  • City: City in which the church is located.
  • State: State in which the church is located.
  • Series: Topic for the set of Bible studies.
  • Scripture or Topic: Specific section of scripture or specific topic for this Bible study.
  • Teacher: Teacher of the Bible study
  • Date: Month, day and year of the Bible study
  • Format: Indicates the format of the servide or sermon (video, audio or text)
  • URL: URL for the Bible study file. This presumes that the Bible study is available online. At some time in the future, the Lutheran Hub might allow for Bible studies to be uploaded to the church's Hub directory.

    • Saving Bible studies to BibleStudies.txt

    The "Copy studies into paste buffer" command button should be used to copy the Bible studies defined on this webpage into the paste buffer (clipboard). Once copied, the Bible studies should be pasted into a local BibleStudies.txt file that should then be included with the files sent when the church definition is complete.