L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #202 Person-events in Topic guide and Factbook

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 various "hate factbook" forum posts.

One set of data that Logos/Verbum collects together is a list of events in which a particular Biblical character participated.

In Factbook, this takes the form of events from the Biblical Event Navigator and associated passage(s) where the event is narrated. This events appear in canonical order. Some events in the hierarchy may be dropped for simplification. Below the detailed events is timeline events naming Sarah. In both cases, clicking on the event name takes you to the corresponding Factbook page.  Clicking on the Bible passages opens your top priority Bible to that passage. The Bible references can be saved as a Passage list or used to filter your Bible.

Aside: remember links can always be drag-and-dropped into a location of your choice.

The timeline/Factbook link:

The Topic Guide provides similar event information without the timeline link. The events reference both where the event is narrated but also where it is mentioned. They appear in no discernable order and have only Bible links. It has a print/export function missing in the Factbook.

I would suggest that the Topic guide event section needs a bit of an upgrade.

Donovan Palmer

Thanks for this.

On the Facebook hater brigade. I think the data behind factbook could use some work, but I think the concept is sound for some users and use cases.