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Dangthrimble

Hi,

A few years ago I set up lyric projection in my previous church, selecting EasiSlides over OpenLP. I am now looking to do the same in my current church but, having installed EasySlides 5.0.1, I thought I would have another look at OpenLP. I have installed OpenLPPortable 2.4.6 on Windows 10, exported my song collection from EasySlides and imported them into OpenLP. Unfortunately, though the author(s) of each song are included in the export between <Author></Author> tags, every song is showing as Author Unknown. Is there any chance this could be fixed as, having a collection of nearly 2,000 songs, I will stick with EasySlides if not.

Thanks

JohnM

@Dangthrimble Does your xml look like this?

"  <authors>

    <author>Chris Tomlin</author>

  </authors>"

Version 2.4.6 is no longer being modified. The Beta for the next release is out for review.

Dangthrimble

No, like this:

<Author>Chris Tomlin &amp; Jesse Reeves</Author>

In EasySlides it is a single field where you can enter one or more names

As long as the tags are case-insensitive, I guess I could do a search and replace for:

"<Author>" to "<authors><author>"

"</Author>" to "</author></authors>"

and try again. I could then edit the fields in OpenLP where there is more than one author.

Dangthrimble

The authors in the XML now look like: <authors><author>Ian Smale</author></authors>

Still not getting them coming through.

JohnM

@Dangthrimble Sorry I should have asked if the structure was like this....There can also be a <title> in the <properties> section.

 <properties>

   <authors>

    <author>Ian Smale</author>

   </authors>

 </properties>

if so then the structure appears to be how OpenLP expects it. If your files structure looks like the above and still loads without an author, please upload 1 xml file so I can replicate the issue.

Dangthrimble

The <properties> tag is definitely missing. Is there a formal schema against which I can compare the whole of the XML? Would that be an EasySlides schema, or an OpenLP schema and, if the former, is that EasySlides v4 or v5?

JohnM

@Dangthrimble The

https://gitlab.com/openlp/wiki/-/wikis/Scratchpad/OpenLyrics_XML_Format

Wiki has a page that should work for version 2.4.6.

ninjakiwi

Also, the OpenLyrics xml format docs are here: https://docs.openlyrics.org/