Unwelcome change to how reading plans work

I have taken a great deal of time to set up specific layouts for each book of the Bible, including setting up the top rated commentaries for each book.

This worked very well with the reading plans, so as I advanced through various books, I would set up my default to the specific book I was reading through.

But with Logos 8, this has now changed. The reading plan opens up to a Logos predetermined layout.

Is there any way I can change this?

Thanks!

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Graham Criddle

Hi Rod

Does the suggestion at https://community.logos.com/forums/t/174439.aspx help you?

Graham

Richard Wardman

Hi Rod

A number of us have made our case against this to the Faithlife team!

In the meantime, you can open your preferred layout, go into the layouts menu, fight click Reading Plan Layout under Homepage Layouts and select update to current selection.

(This is all from memory, so some details might be sketchy!)

Your preferred reading plan should then launch when you click on your reading plan tile on the dashboard.

Rod Bergen

Does the suggestion at https://community.logos.com/forums/t/174439.aspx help you?

Thanks! This solves my problem, although I will have to change the layout for the reading plan every time I move to a new book. But I did that for my default layout in any event so it is a reasonable workaround.

Thanks again!!

Graham Criddle

You're very welcome.

Glad to help.

Rod Bergen

A number of us have made our case against this to the Faithlife team!

Some of the new features seem to be aimed at people that were basic users. The problem with this approach is that it seems to mess up some things more advanced users had set up. The new reading plan feature overrode the set up that I had that was working well.

Rod Bergen

Does the suggestion at https://community.logos.com/forums/t/174439.aspx help you?

The problem with this workaround is that when you click on the bible reading card, it no longer opens the Bible with the "Start reading" heading. As a result, when you finish reading the chapter, there is no way to update that you have read the chapter.

Graham Criddle

The problem with this workaround is that when you click on the bible reading card, it no longer opens the Bible with the "Start reading" heading. As a result, when you finish reading the chapter, there is no way to update that you have read the chapter.

Try checking you have the Reading Plans Visual Filter enabled for the Bible you are reading

Richard Wardman

A number of us have made our case against this to the Faithlife team!

Some of the new features seem to be aimed a people that were basic users. The problem with this is that approach is that it seems to mess things up for people who were more advanced users.

Yes, I can see that. I love the new Homepage, but I miss certain features of the L7 Homepage, particularly the flexibility snd usability reading plans. I hope that a future release will bring back some of that.

Dirk Boersma

Hi Graham, thanks for this tip on how to make Reading Plans visible in the Bible text!

I noticed that the option only becomes visible after creating one or more reading plans featuring the Bible.

SineNomine

A number of us have made our case against this to the Faithlife team!

Some of the new features seem to be aimed a people that were basic users. The problem with this is that approach is that it seems to mess things up for people who were more advanced users.

Yes, I can see that. I love the new Homepage, but I miss certain features of the L7 Homepage, particularly the flexibility snd usability reading plans. I hope that a future release will bring back some of that.

Some improvements to the Home page have already been planned and may even ship with 8.1.

Kelly Wayne Sullivan

Richard -

When you say 'Reading Plan Layout' under Homepage, are you referring to the 'Bible Reading Plan' or should I see one that Reading Plan?

Richard Wardman

Richard -

When you say 'Reading Plan Layout' under Homepage, are you referring to the 'Bible Reading Plan' or should I see one that Reading Plan?

I meant 'Bible Reading Plan'! I wasn't at my laptop at the time so I couldn't remember the exact wording.

Kelly Wayne Sullivan

Ok thanks. Got it. Just making sure I wasn’t missing something Because these methods aren’t working for me in customizing my reading plan layouts.