L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #169 Help and training part 2

MJ. Smith

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10+ Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application. 

This tip is inspired by the forum posts: various

Help and Training part 1 dealt with the three forms of help available from the top entries in the application menu. In part 2 we use the application menu to get to Program Settings and the help functions available there.

 Program settings controls three help functions:

1. [quote]Show Information Tool Tips

   Verbum shows a short status bar popup in the lower left of some resources, especially those with lemma and morphology tagging. Turn this setting to Yes to display these helps, and No to hide them

   
   Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2022).

2. [quote]Show Visual Cues

   A visual cue is a short animated burst of color that appears to draw the eye to a portion of the screen, especially in resource locations. This is especially useful when following a hyperlink to an open panel and the linked location is halfway down the page. Yes shows these cues, and No turns them off.

   
   Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2022).

3. [quote]Show Help Cards

   This setting enables the Help Card feature which provides a short description of the panel open and a link to a Help article or support article on the web. The cards will show up the first three times the panel is opened, this count can be rest using the Reset link in Program Settings. The Help Cards can be displayed from any panel using the Show help card option in the panel menu. The feature can be turned off in both the Program Settings or a link in the Help Card pop-up.

   
   Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2022).

An example of the tool-tip showing (on):

When you encounter a feature where a tool-tip would be helpful to you but is not implemented, suggest it be implemented. Let Faithlife know it would be useful.

The visual clue requires a video so no example is shown here.

The Help card shows the first three times you open a panel type. You can reset the counts to zero in the Program settings (see screen shot above).

1. The check mark hides (dismisses) the help card
2. The preview text comes from the Help file; clicking on More opens the Help file to the full article.
3. Turn off help cards (without going to Program Settings)
4. Okay turns off this specific help card not all cards
5. Question mark serves as a toggle to see or not see this instance of the Help card

Kiyah

I wonder why the Verbum Help resource references Help Cards when the Help Cards aren't available in Verbum.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1255745#Comment_1255745

I would suspect a new person modifying the Help file who inherited a number of errors and was given a very minimal window to make all the changes to Help in all the apps and languages ... But then there are those who prefer that suspicions rather than knowledge should not be shared. And that my running out of time to report errors implies nothing other than I ran out of time.