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user picture Author: Jay Halderman
Posted: Jan 31 2008 - 02:18 PM
Subject: Not functioning for me
I have installed the extension, entered the API key for all suggested domains (which are the correct ones), made sure parsing was enabled, added the static template to the root of the site (and even tried adding to a specific page), and made sure scripture references are formatted like the e-bible examples. Still, no scripture references appear with links. I'm not sure what else to try here.
user picture Author: Christoph Koehler
Posted: Jan 31 2008 - 02:27 PM
Subject: re: Not functioning for me
Jay,

Do you have a link to the site so we can take a look?

Thanks!

Christoph
user picture Author: Jay Halderman
Posted: Jan 31 2008 - 02:51 PM
Subject: re: re: Not functioning for me
It's actually in my image sig, but here's a page with lots of scripture references.

http://www.sharingtheheart.org/about_us/core_beliefs/
user picture Author: Jay Halderman
Posted: Jan 31 2008 - 03:17 PM
Subject: re: re: re: Not functioning for me
One more thing to add: I can insert a Verse of the Day plugin and it shows scripture (ugly, so I've hidden until I can fix CSS), so the extension is functional to some degree.
user picture Author: Christoph Koehler
Posted: Jan 31 2008 - 05:15 PM
Subject: re: Not functioning for me
Jay,

You have a pretty bad error in the HTML, breaking the DOM and causing the site to not validate. eBible can't parse scriptures like that. It's right in the header; the part breaking it is this:
CODE:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="fileadmin/exttemplates/ <meta name="description" content="description = First United Methodist Church of McKinney, Texas" />

You see that the link tag is incomplete. Check your TS Setup, probably on the site root, to see if you can find the problem there.

Let me know if you need any more help!

Christoph
user picture Author: Jay Halderman
Posted: Jan 31 2008 - 06:00 PM
Subject: re: Not functioning for me
Thanks for finding that problem, I think I fixed it. Unfortunately, that wasn't the problem. The parsing still doesn't work.

Also, I've tried to set up a custom CSS for the eBible extension as outlined in the documentation, but it doesn't affect the verse plugin at all. Using firebug, it seems to get all it's styling from the website's main template, or in one instance the online CSS on eBible's website (even though I don't have that enabled in the configuration).

I'm really at a loss for why it is not responding as expected.
user picture Author: Jay Halderman
Posted: Jan 31 2008 - 06:21 PM
Subject: re: Not functioning for me
OK, now I'm at a loss for a different reason. Suddenly, it's parsing everything correctly. The only change I made was to double-check that my configuration was not using external CSS. I'm still not getting styling from the ext-templates/ebible.css
user picture Author: Christoph Koehler
Posted: Jan 31 2008 - 06:32 PM
Subject: re: Not functioning for me
Jay,

It works for me. It's set to open in a new window, but scriptures are parsed into links nonetheless.

As for the CSS, check out some of the other posts in this forum for info on how to do that, specifically these two:
http://webempoweredchurch.com/support/community/forum/single_thread/ministry-tools/ebible-extension/pop-up-background-color/
http://webempoweredchurch.com/support/community/forum/single_thread/ministry-tools/ebible-extension/styles-for-verse-of-the-day/

Christoph
user picture Author: Jay Halderman
Posted: Jan 31 2008 - 11:42 PM
Subject: re: Not functioning for me
Thanks for the help. I'll try some of the things in those posts. It looks like they take a different approach than outlined in the extension manual.
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