Multiple Resource Display

I stumbled on a Youtube video on this feature and thought it would solve a problem I've had for a very long time. It uses one resource to drive another, but not vice versa, so I can finally have a Bible drive a commentary, but be able to move in the commentary without loosing my place in my Bible. I was enthused.

However there's a gotcha. I linked my Bible to a commentary collection, in this case my collection of commentaries on Mark thinking I would see my bible and next to it a commentary pane that would allow me to shift through the commentaries in the collection.

But what happened was that Logos opened a number of the commentaries in the collection (apparently not all of them) as shown below. That's not as useful and certainly doesn't address the long-standing problem I described except in the limited case of only using one commentary at at time.

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Dave Hooton

Yes, you get (nearly) all the resources at once! I suggest you create a collection of 2 or 3 commentary collections/series. Then you won't have to change collections if you want to study a book other than Mark! Otherwise, you limit all your collections to 2 or 3 books.

Reuben Helmuth

But what happened was that Logos opened a number of the commentaries in the collection (apparently not all of them)

Mult-view will only display those resources (from the selected ones) that contain the reference of the primary resource.

so I can finally have a Bible drive a commentary, but be able to move in the commentary without losing my place in my Bible. I was enthused.

I too have long wished for the ability to distinguishing slave/master resources in linksets. That said, as a workaround for your scenario, I link my passage guide with my Bible, then simply click through my passage guide in order to view/update the commentaries.

A major advantage of this method is that I can much better control over which commentary appears when/where (using the collections of the passage guide; I keep most (all) sections collapsed until interested in them).

Please note that I always keep at least one commentary in the top center panel in order to make other commentaries open there when I click in the passage guide. If that panel gets too full or I just want to "clean up" I right-click on my 'anchor' commentary and choose "close other tabs".