Custom Slides aren't saved

For the first time this week we used the custom slide feature for the pastors message.  I prepared the OOS beforehand, including all the custom slides and saved it.  For some reason though, two of the custom slides wouldn't save.  Twice I created them, saved the OOS, closed openlp, reopened it and my saved OOS, and both times two of the custom slides I made were gone.  Am I missing something, do I need to do something special to make sure the slides are saved in my OOS?  I created them and pressed the"Add to Order of Service" button, then saved the OOS.  Shouldn't that of saved the slides as well? 

Also, on a somewhat related note, is there a way to make a custom slide and not have a caption or an author?  If I leave those spaces blank it wont' let me add the slide, it gives me an error saying to make sure I fill everything out.  It does the same thing if I try just putting a space in the field.

 

***UPDATE***

After playing around with it, I've narrowed the problem down to the custom slide having quotations in it.  Below is the text I'm trying to put in a custom slide.

"If you feel it is imperative to fill all your needs, and if these needs are contradictory or in conflict with those of others, or simply unfillable, then frustration inevitably follows. To Abby and to Mark as well self-fulfillment means:  having a career and marriage and children and sexual freedom and autonomy and being liberal and having money and choosing non-conformity and insisting social justice and enjoying city life and country living and simplicity and graciousness and reading and good friends and on and on. The individual is not truly fulfilled by becoming ever more autonomous. Indeed, to move too far in this direction is to risk psychosis, the ultimate form of autonomy… The injunction that to find one’s self, one must lose one’s self, contains the truth any seeker of self-fulfillment needs to grasp."

When I enter it like that it won't save, if I remove the quotation marks from the beginning and end then it saves fine.

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Re: Custom Slides aren't saved

I can confirm the issue with saving custom slides with double quotes.

Regarding blank captions/authors, a workaround is to use a special alt code.

If you keep the left "ALT" key held down and then on the KEYPAD type 0160, this will insert a special "space" character which will be enough to fool openlp.org into thinking you've entered something and allow you to save it.

To work around the double-quote issue, (other than using single quotes)  use the special ALT combination codes for open double quotes (ALT-0147) and close double quotes (ALT-0148). 

Re: Custom Slides aren't saved

Do we know exactly what about the double quotes is causing it?  Because I have other slides that used double quotes that saved fine, which is part of the reason it took me as long as it did to isolate what was causing it.

Re: Custom Slides aren't saved

Hi smurray,

We need more details from you before we can establish what's causing it. How long is the text, in comparison with the others?

Re: Custom Slides aren't saved

It was longer than the others I believe.  If I'm not mistaken the others were one slide long where this one was two.

Re: Custom Slides aren't saved

What were your slide settings?

Re: Custom Slides aren't saved

I have it setup to wrap long lines instead of resize under display settings, and I have "enable slide wrap-around" checked under slide settings. I have no idea what that option even does, but I'm pretty sure I've always had it checked.

Re: Custom Slides aren't saved

Ran into the problem again today while trying to setup tomorrows OOS.  This time it was bible scripture slides that weren't saving.  Once again I'm thinking it had to do with double quotation marks since all the slides that weren't saved had them.  The bible I'm using is the NIV version I imported from opensong.  Any idea if this problem is fixable or not?  The one thought I had was to go into the csv file for the bible and replace all the double quotes with something else, but I don't know whether to replace them with single quotes or use the special alt characters.  Is there a special alt code for a generic double quote, so I don't have to worry about when I'm using the ones that go at the beginning or end of the quote?