Timeline question

I was looking through the timeline and this is incomplete - I expected that I might be able to click on something to read the entire statement about Babylon, but nothing is clickable. Is this because I don't have the book associated with the data point or is something incomplete here? A partial phrase is less than helpful...

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Graham Criddle

Hi Jeffrey

It may be that you don't have the resource - in this case, ISBE

As you can see below I do get some information from this event:

Do you have ISBE? Are you running on Mac or WIndows?

Graham

Jeffrey Visser

Do you know if there is any way to turn off resources I don't have access to? I thought the timeline was a database we paid for as part of the upgrade. An incomplete sentence because I don't own an item is not helpful. It would be helpful to turn these off or get a complete sentence and the resource where it came from. I don't expect a link to a resource I don't have, but if I new the resource I can make an educated decision to buy those that would be helpful.

Jeffrey Visser

Thanks for the reply. It does give me some insight into this.

Jeffrey Visser

Just looked - no ISBE - I am at silver and that is one I haven't added on or can afford at the moment.

Michael Meiser

Try simply mousing over the entry as opposed to clicking on it. When I mouse over the entry i get the full sentence. However, when I click on it, i only get the abbreviated phrase. I also don't have ISBE, but the full phrase shows up for me on mouse over. I hope this helps.

glenn.gervais

The click popup shows the event title and date along the top (same as shown in the timeline but with less space)

Then we show a list of links to resources you own where this timeline event is referenced. If you don't own any of the resources, the click popup looks almost like the hover tooltip popup, but it is different.

The timeline event in the timeline shows "..." When the title does not fit in the space available for the event time span. If you zoom in you may be able to see the entire timeline event title.

John Kaess

I am a long time looks user, and I admit to being surprised. I had L4 Platinum and recently upgraded to L5 Gold thinking that this would give me ll the features and the resources needed for hose feature. Now it seems that a somewhat ubstantal number of timeline links require ISBE which I do not ave in pite of expending a great amount of money on 2 large Logos products. Ths disappoints me and from the information I have red about Logos 5 it seems like ISBE should be a part of the upgrade. I do have Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary and Baker Encyclopedia of the Bile which are very ubstantal in breadth and content. I did not expect to have holes in he timeline.

John Kaess

Once again, the typos re because the logos forum does not allow making corrections on an iPad

Sean Boisen

I am a long time looks user, and I admit to being surprised. I had L4 Platinum and recently upgraded to L5 Gold thinking that this would give me ll the features and the resources needed for hose feature. Now it seems that a somewhat ubstantal number of timeline links require ISBE which I do not ave in pite of expending a great amount of money on 2 large Logos products. Ths disappoints me and from the information I have red about Logos 5 it seems like ISBE should be a part of the upgrade. I do have Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary and Baker Encyclopedia of the Bile which are very ubstantal in breadth and content. I did not expect to have holes in he timeline.

The Timeline is intended to both provide an overview of what's happening in history at a certain point in time, and to tie those events back to your library. So we made a deliberate decision to display events that are tied to resources you own. That means pretty much everybody will have events that come from resources they don't own. I see that as a feature: we're giving you a lot more information that goes beyond just the events in your resources.

We'll continue adding events, and in the future we're likely to provide other ways to filter what's displayed: a check box to only show events in resources I own is a reasonable option.

Jeffrey Visser

Sean - I agree that it is a feature when the timeline events are complete. But in this case the timeline states "Babylon is sometimes referred to as... 2100 BC" This is not helpful. I understand that Babylon was referred to something in 2100 BC, but I don't know what or where to find the information making this a worthless event ion my timeline.

That said - I love the timeline feature and think overall it works great. There is just a little bit of tweaking that will need to happen with it. Great job guys.