Stop Logos' going to the web.

I use copy location links often, daily, throughout my word processing's collection of documents. However, lately, clicking the links opens endless tabs (ie, tab, then another with another click, then another …) as well as going to my desktop Logos installation and local resources. (Going to my local resources also seems slower.)

How do I stop Logos' going to the web when I click a copy location link in one of my own documents when its source is local?
I know that I can disable "internet" in Program Settings, but that of course disables auto-downloads, particularly new books. If this is "the way it is now", it is not an enhancement, forcing me to either close multiple useless tabs at the end of the every day or me to disable "internet" and triggering the update manually.

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Chris Heil

Apps for Websites is the Microsoft setting that registers Logos to handle ref.ly links directly without going to the browser. There is a bunch of discussion on this in this post, but here is a summary of what I found when I ran into this problem.

You can test the Apps for Websites functionality is set up correctly by going to Start > Run and pasting https://ref.ly/Jn3.16 . If clicking that link opens Logos without opening a browser, your system is set up correctly. If the link opens a browser, then Apps for Websites is not working and here are some steps you need to do in order:

Check that "Apps for websites" is enabled in Microsoft Windows by clicking Settings > Apps > Apps for websites in Windows and see if ref.ly links are listed and Logos is enabled. If ref.ly links are listed and Logos is enabled, go to step 2. If ref.ly links are not listed, you will need to reinstall Logos. The installation process installs the handler for these links in the list and there is not another way that has been posted to the community to add the this to Apps for Websites without reinstalling.
Run the following script created and posted by Nick Mueller at Logos.

Those two steps got links working so they no longer opened a browser. Hopefully they will for you too.

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Aaron Hamilton

Could it be that you are using the right-click context menu to copy location? If so, it sounds like this is not ideal for your purposes. Instead, try Share → Copy link on the Dynamic toolbar if you are a subscriber. If not, there is an option to Copy location in the upper-right panel menu (3 dots).

Francis

🤔I tried the copied link from the Share menu in a local app as well as in Office 365, and both opened in Biblia!

Chris Heil

Check that "Apps for websites" is enabled in Microsoft Windows by clicking Settings > Apps > Apps for websites in Windows and see if ref.ly links are listed and Logos is enabled. If ref.ly links are listed and Logos is enabled, go to step 2. If ref.ly links are not listed, you will need to reinstall Logos. The installation process installs the handler for these links in the list and there is not another way that has been posted to the community to add the this to Apps for Websites without reinstalling.
Run the following script created and posted by Nick Mueller at Logos.

Those two steps got links working so they no longer opened a browser. Hopefully they will for you too.

Thank you Aaron, Francis, and Chris, I appreciate your time for me 🤗

As it turns out (re)enabling the Apps For Website toggle for Open Logos Bible Study did the trick.
(Since this was a new place in Windows’ Settings for me, it “must have been” an update a couple/three months ago. (Not my stubby fingers 🙄)

I get my resource links by keystroke, Ctrl+Alt+C, usually with some 4+ word portion of the text selected that I want to reference. I then put the link string into the document, now having a multitude of links throughout many documents.

(Less than 4 words selected doesn’t usually result in the link … though, as Chris’ example suggests, simply navigating to a location in Logos will get a link — this works also for searches: run the search and then the keystroke, and you get a link string that will run that search whenever you trigger the link in the document … I have several of these “searches” among my documents, and a cheat-sheet on how to change the string to change the search.)

Thanks again, all of you.

Bernhard

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1376067#Comment_1376067

If ref.ly links are not listed, you will need to reinstall Logos.

It seems like, repairing the installation also does the job, so you wouldn't need a full new installation. A repair is described here: https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/33897534825741-What-to-do-if-Logos-Crashes