Requesting retrieval By Reference starts by clicking the By Reference button on the Open/Utils tab, or by selecting By Reference from the popup menu displayed after clicking on the hand pointing right.
Lectionary
ScriptureViewer provides easy access to the Community of Christ lectionary and worship help links. Press Clear button to remove prior results. Then, using the calendar, select the Sunday of interest and press the Fetch button. An internet query will go out and retrieve the available data for the requested date. ScriptureViewer provides a date-picker and a Fetch button to retrieve the Theme, lectionary scriptures, and when available the link to the online worship helps.
To access the online worship helps, click the link that is returned. In addition, when all references are returned to a single tab (when "Tab per Item" is not checked), the date, theme and links are also placed on the resulting composite tab.
Retrieving By Reference
References may be obtained via the lectionary path described above, or by simply typing them in, or cut/paste from another resource.
For Biblical references, a reference consists of a book, a chapter, and a verse. For the Doctrine and Covenants, the 'book' can be the full name, the short form 'D&C' and several varieties in between. Section numbers are used in leiu of chapter numbers. For Community of Christ Sings, the 'book' can be the full name, the short form 'CCS' and several varieties in between. Hymn numbers are used in leiu of chapter numbers.
In our example above, each line contains a 'full' reference... book, chapter/section/hymn and verse/range. ScriptureViewer also supports abbreviated references where, when not explicitly supplied, missing leading parts are reused from the previous reference.
Multiple references may also be contained on a single line, separated by semi-colon (;) instead of line-breaks. Both are valid in any mix.
The 6/1/2025 service helps reference a number of possible hymns. Consider using a request like:
CCS 73;623;71;150;110;556;557;23;41;364;523;533;370;381;337Since CCS (the book portion) isn't re-specified each time, ScriptureViewer looks back and sees it was the last referenced. In this case, for each new hymn it looks back and sees the 'book' of 'CCS'.
Clicking on the Retrieve button looks through each resource for appropriately named content.
Further, ScriptureViewer contains a collection of the book names in English, Spanish and French, and their typical short forms, thus allowing a reference to be used appropriately independent of language and book name differences. See Bible and Book of Mormon Abbreviations.
When a supplied name doesn't match any of the collection of book names or abbreviations, then each book is individually checked to see if a match can be made on supplied characters against the leading characters of the book name or variations.