UI Inconsistency: "Search" vs. "Find books" vs. "Rule"

Rosie Perera

[UPDATE: This is Windows only]

There are lots of edit boxes in the Logos desktop app where you can search for books using the same syntax. But Logos is inconsistent about the grey instructional text it shows in those boxes.

In the Library it says "Find books".

In the Search tab, in the All Books dropdown, it says "Search".

In the Collections tool, it says "Rule".

In other places (e.g., Concordance tool), it also says "Search".

I suppose this isn't a huge confusion to users, but it sure makes me need to check the UI carefully before explaining how to do something to a user on the forums, because I want to make sure I get the terminology right. Am I telling them to type something into the "Search box" or the "'Find books' box"?

Graham Criddle

In the Search tab, in the All Books dropdown, it says "Search".

There's a difference between Windows and Mac here - with the box just being blank on Mac!

Dave Hooton

In the Library it says "Find books".

"Search books" would be confusing as we are not searching books but trying to locate/filter them.

In the Collections tool, it says "Rule".

Library and Collections could use "Filter books", where "Filter" is used in the Library Sidebar (and others).

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BTW  the resource/book Find box or CTRL+F uses "Find"[:D]