Before submitting
Describe the bug
I was attempting to build a lyrics show. I used the quick text input with bracketed headers to identify the chorus and verses. The basic import worked fine, but when I try to modify it at all, everything ends up discombobulated.
I switch to group view to create the arrangement. I drag and drop the chorus group in between each verse and somehow most of the second verse ends up being added to the end of the chorus and removed from the verse group it belongs to.
If i go to Edit [show] and the text edit and manually fix it, that really sets everything off. Then I end up with the last two lines of the verse being reflected in the group view as an independent group, although not identified in the group sidebar.
I've restarted freeshow, and looked at the underlying json and can't find any issue that stands out, but it does seem ambiguous and poor coding practice to leave the child slides without a group id, relying solely on the json file structure to identify what group they belong to.
I pasted the full text into notepad++ and turned on all hidden/special characters to make sure there wasn't some characters hiding that were causing a problem.
I even disconnected from the church apps sync, with the concern that there was some sort of sync issue that was creating disparity between the local and synced files coming from multiple issues with an unnamed other software suite that didn't like to have any cloud sync enabled.
How often does this happen?
Every time
Steps to reproduce
- Create a new show with Quick Edit
- Change arrangement (sorry "layout" even though songs have arrangements) from the group view
- Attempt to edit using the "Text Edit"
- observe lines from different groups being randomly reassigned to other groups
- observe other lines being orphaned into unidentified other groups
Expected behavior
I expect lines of a group to remain assigned to the group they are assigned to when looking at the text in the "Text Edit" tab.
I expect slides to properly identify the group they belong to and not have a random slide showing in the group view with no group that it belongs to.
Screenshots, logs, or files
No response
Operating System
Windows
FreeShow version
1.6.4
Additional context
I was scolded on Facebook for creating a post identifying problems with FreeShow, and I've created several other bug reports. Instead of accepting any feedback, or accepting that there may be bugs, the collective attitude seems to be that this is the world's first absolutely bug-free software and there are zero problems with it. I understand that the developers are volunteers and we aren't being charged for FreeShow, but you'd think there would be some desire to get feedback and improve it.
Before submitting
Describe the bug
I was attempting to build a lyrics show. I used the quick text input with bracketed headers to identify the chorus and verses. The basic import worked fine, but when I try to modify it at all, everything ends up discombobulated.
I switch to group view to create the arrangement. I drag and drop the chorus group in between each verse and somehow most of the second verse ends up being added to the end of the chorus and removed from the verse group it belongs to.
If i go to Edit [show] and the text edit and manually fix it, that really sets everything off. Then I end up with the last two lines of the verse being reflected in the group view as an independent group, although not identified in the group sidebar.
I've restarted freeshow, and looked at the underlying json and can't find any issue that stands out, but it does seem ambiguous and poor coding practice to leave the child slides without a group id, relying solely on the json file structure to identify what group they belong to.
I pasted the full text into notepad++ and turned on all hidden/special characters to make sure there wasn't some characters hiding that were causing a problem.
I even disconnected from the church apps sync, with the concern that there was some sort of sync issue that was creating disparity between the local and synced files coming from multiple issues with an unnamed other software suite that didn't like to have any cloud sync enabled.
How often does this happen?
Every time
Steps to reproduce
Expected behavior
I expect lines of a group to remain assigned to the group they are assigned to when looking at the text in the "Text Edit" tab.
I expect slides to properly identify the group they belong to and not have a random slide showing in the group view with no group that it belongs to.
Screenshots, logs, or files
No response
Operating System
Windows
FreeShow version
1.6.4
Additional context
I was scolded on Facebook for creating a post identifying problems with FreeShow, and I've created several other bug reports. Instead of accepting any feedback, or accepting that there may be bugs, the collective attitude seems to be that this is the world's first absolutely bug-free software and there are zero problems with it. I understand that the developers are volunteers and we aren't being charged for FreeShow, but you'd think there would be some desire to get feedback and improve it.