Advanced Logos Commands (For Alfred Shortcuts on Mac)

I've been experimenting with Alfred in Logos. I currently use the Alfred Remote with my iPad. On the remote I've put some basic Logos commands. For instance, if I copy a resource location in the "L4" format, I can paste that location into Alfred and it will open to that resource. So I can open a particular Passage Guide or a Search window with just one click (or keyboard shortcut). I was wondering how many possibilities there could be.

For instance, could I copy and paste commands instead of just locations? I could see using commands such as...

Open in a floating window
Open a specific layout
Update
Sync
Update active layout

I'm thinking that if this were possible, the format would be something like "logos4:[command_name]." Any thoughts on this?

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Vince Mitchell

Did you make any progress on this?

I just created this, would be nice to get one workflow with all the things people have created.

https://github.com/vmitchell85/logos-alfred-workflow

J. Gary Ellison

I'm intrigued, since I've used Alfred for many years now, though by no means an expert. I've downloaded the workflow, but it just opens Safari, trying to find something on the Internet. Does this need to be updated or do I need to set something in Logos 9? I noticed that some of the workflows reference Logos4: logos4:Search;kind=Media;q={query}

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

J. Gary Ellison

I think I simply needed to "Enable" the workflow. The few that I've tried are working! Thank you!

marino389@gmail.com

Excellent! Not sure how I missed your message back in 2019.

Just downloaded it and getting this error. How should I proceed?

Vince Mitchell

The latest version of MacOS removed the default PHP installation. I haven't got around to converting the Logos workflow to not use PHP. I'll try to create a new version soon.

If you want to get this working before then I think you'll need to install PHP. If you already have homebrew installed you should be able to run "brew install php". If you don't, you can find out more about homebrew here: https://brew.sh/

I'll try to post back here when it's updated.

marino389@gmail.com

OK thanks.

J. Gary Ellison

What command would "Set preferred Bible to…" ? I've tried logosres:ESV. It opens the ESV, but does not set it to the preferred Bible. I change versions often in writing, so this would be very helpful. Thank you!

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1358514#Comment_1358514

no need for a fancy syntax:

just type short title or part of a title and select from the prompt (I dragged five of those into the shortcut menu where you see the black dot with the 1 in it). This is probably the way it needs to be set in a macro, too.

J. Gary Ellison

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1358524#Comment_1358524

Thank you. I do use that with Keyboard Maestro. Within Logos, the keystrokes combination vesv issues the command "Set Preferred Bible to ESV" vniv does the same with NIV, etc. I also use an Alfred routine within different apps which opens any version to a particular reference. For example, "ognt" in Alfred opens GNT to a reference with this command: "logosres:NA28;ref=Bible.{query}"

I am sure there is a way to set the preferred version using Alfred so I would not need to leave Scrivener (word processing) to change versions that I would invoke using the Logos hotkey. I am hoping that someone knows the command. Thank you for your response.

Mark Ward gives a good idea of what I'm looking for in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erI89ewEJuo