L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #259 Information panel > definition source

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 post: Data Error: Do not know how to report typo for this - so posting here - Logos Forums 

This post is a case where knowing precisely what one is looking at, i.e., the source of the data is critical for understanding. With the lexicon dictionary priorities that the OP used, the context menu said "Herod Agrippa I" while the information panel said "Herod II". Why?

Kyle G. Anderson said:

The information panel is doing a headword search. It's not doing any searching based on Biblical People data.

Andrew Batishko said:

To clarify, the information panel takes the word you have clicked on and attempts to find articles that match that word as closely as possible. It is expected that this will not always provide 100% accurate results, but it should often do well. It will also do its work even if you are in a non-Biblical resource that doesn't contain any special tagging. If you want to use the special data that has been tagged in the Bible about who that person is, then you will want to use the right click menu to Look Up a resource containing the article about that specific person.

1. The context menu is using the Logos tagging of Biblical people/places/things to identify "Herod"
2. the information panel (dictionary) definition section is simply looking the word Herod up in a dictionary

Jonathan Bradley

Thank you for posting these. Some have new stuff that I didn't know about, and others have things that I've known about but haven't used to their full effectiveness. Thank you!

Dave Hooton

MJ. Smith said:

With the lexicon priorities that the OP used, the context menu said "Herod Agrippa I" while the information panel said "Herod II".

Encyclopedia (Bible Dictionary) priorities are used.

MJ. Smith said:

the information panel (dictionary) definition section is simply looking the word Herod up in a dictionary

Whereas the Lookup section in the Context menu (not shown above) will display the correct article, especially if LBD is your #1 dictionary e.g. the Info panel will display John, Gospel of when you click/hover "John" at Mt 3:1, whereas the Lookup will show John the Baptist. If you click/hover "Baptist" the Info panel will not have an entry for many bible dictionaries but the Lookup section will have entries.