Importing questions into Scripture Forge

Scripture Forge
1

If I have a (long) list of questions (e.g. in a tab-separated text file), is there some way to get that into scripture forge without a lot of manual copy-pasting?
I’m happy to re-format my text file into whatever format is necessary, (usfm, XML, or even a series of HTTP post-requests from the linux command line!) but I just don’t see any ‘bulk upload questions’ options anywhere.

2

Hi David, if you are using the Transcelerator plugin in Paratext, you can bulk import questions from that. However, currently there is no way to add questions in bulk from a file. We have thought about a feature like that but you are the first one to ask for it. Would you be interested in helping to shape how a new bulk question import feature from a file would work?

3

I don’t have much time to work on it, but can offer some suggestions.
Simplest would be something like:

BookID ch:verse[-verse] Qn {end of line}

GEN 11:1-4 What were they afraid of?
GEN 11:5 Why did God need to go down?
GEN 11:8 When were the people obedient to God's command in Genesis 9:7?

Where the book id is the 3 letter paratext code.

4

Thanks for your input. We are planning to add a basic CSV import for questions (coma-separated variable files seem more universally supported). We have created an issue to track this new feature jira.sil.org/browse/SF-1410.

5

Importing questions from a CSV file is now available. The way to do this is create a spreadsheet and in the first column write the reference, and in the second column write the question. Then save the file as a CSV file.

A couple notes:

  • The reference needs to use the same book abbreviations as are used in Paratext (“GEN 1:1-2” will work, “Genesis 1:1-2” will not work). Hopefully this will be improved in the future.
  • Currently it’s prohibitively slow to import a large number of questions. It gets slower as it goes. We’re working on a fix for this. [This is now mostly fixed]