Historical resource deficiencies for Advanced Timeline

Steve

I recently became intrigued with the Advanced Timeline. I already had the Christian History Magazine set (about 140 issues) and purchased a some more resources because I wanted to study the history of persecutions committed by the Church.

After my purchases I began my study but was confused by the problem that most of my historical references were not appearing in the advanced timeline at all.

This was regarding a 2-volume church history set I purchased not only for this purpose but because both sales and level 1 tech support said events in this reference set would appear in the Advanced Timeline. To sum up, this is what I learned from Logos' level 2 tech support:

"I've learned that the empty flags are "date flags"  (as opposed to "Event flags" which are filled in) that send you to that date in the Advanced Timeline. They are not connected to a particular event even if they are approximate to one. Skimming the book I don't see any actual "Event flags", so my assumption is that his book has not been tagged with actual Event Tags that the Advanced Timeline would see. "

When I asked if there were any plans to update historical reference works so that their content would appear in the Advanced Timeline, I was told:

"I'm sorry. I've been told there are no current plans to add more event tags to any existing resources."

Thanks for nothing Logos.

Steve Carmeli

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Frank Sauer

Hi Steve,

I'd personally give some of the Logos employees that comment in the Forums a chance to respond to this before writing it off… Unfortunately the reps that I've dealt with lately have not been on the ball - most recently one trying to tell me that a Feature only existed on specific platforms, but not the one I was questioning - in spite of said Feature Parity being part of the Subscription selling point…

There may or may not be more to the situation

DMB

Yep. More event tags is a big sales opportunity for them. Personally, I like the whole idea; the execution is a bit of a problem though. Regarding your interest, yesterday I got caught up in my Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Architecture. I thought it'd be an art book but actually a history book by location for the early church.

NichtnurBibelleser

I had this experience, too. For two german resources I hoped being linked to the timeline (a church history and the RGG4) I had to discover that this wasn't the case.

In order to make the Timeline Tool in Logos work at least a bit, I bought hte Timeline Feature Expansion, S in addition. Now, clicking on an event in the timeline, it mostly leads to one of the books contained in the Timeline Feature Expansion. It's a bit like a visual index of articles in that books (e.g. the Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible (2 vols.)).

Steve

Thanks guys, I appreciate all your comments!