Displaying Reading Plans in the Text

Martin Folley

I have a reading plan set up for a resource. It equates to about 20 pages per day. Sometimes, with that resource, I can see the plan (grey separator bars with 'stop' or start' reading), but sometimes I cannot.

I wondered if it depended on launching the resource from the home page reading list vs. launching it from the library but it seems inconsistent.

Launching from the 'Home page reading plan' seems to always show the reading bars, but also always seems to take me to the start of the day's reading, regardless of where I was (not much use if I have to scroll through 10 pages to try and find where I was).

Launching from the Library takes me back to my last know position (hurray!) but does not always seem to show the bars.

Launching from the Library does not always show the RP bars.

I believe the difference may be the restarting of Logos. After a restart/launch of the app itself, the bars do not seem to appear in a resource unless you have used the reading plan link. Once you have used the reading plan link, then the bars are displayed, even if the resource is resource openings are from the library. 

This is a problem, unless I use the RP link first to activate the bars (using the RP link), I cannot see them, BUT using the RP link means that I immediately lose my position in the text since it goes back to the start of the day's reading.

Is it the expected behaviour that resources do not show reading plans unless they have been launched via the reading plan at least once? This feels like a bug. All resources with reading plans should show them from app launch, like highlights, without the need to use the RP link on the home page.

 

I may have gotten this wrong ... and missed an option ... 

 

Graham Criddle

Hi Martin

Martin Folley said:

Launching from the 'Home page reading plan' seems to always show the reading bars, but also always seems to take me to the start of the day's reading, regardless of where I was (not much use if I have to scroll through 10 pages to try and find where I was).

This is consistent with my experience. The way I get round the "scrolling to find where I was" issue is if I get partway through a day's reading I just mark the spot with a highlighter and then it is at least easy to find later.[:)]

Martin Folley said:

Launching from the Library takes me back to my last know position (hurray!) but does not always seem to show the bars.

Launching from the Library does not always show the RP bars.

For me, launching from the library will sometime show one set of bars but no more - typically the last read ones.

Martin Folley said:

I believe the difference may be the restarting of Logos. After a restart/launch of the app itself, the bars do not seem to appear in a resource unless you have used the reading plan link. Once you have used the reading plan link, then the bars are displayed, even if the resource is resource openings are from the library. 

I don't think this is the complete story. I was reading a resource via the Reading Plan yesterday and haven't restarted the app since. Opening the resource from the library does not show the RP bars within it.

Martin Folley said:

This is a problem, unless I use the RP link first to activate the bars (using the RP link), I cannot see them, BUT using the RP link means that I immediately lose my position in the text since it goes back to the start of the day's reading.

Is it the expected behaviour that resources do not show reading plans unless they have been launched via the reading plan at least once? This feels like a bug. All resources with reading plans should show them from app launch, like highlights, without the need to use the RP link on the home page.

I think it is designed to work so that the Reading Plan indicators are shown when the resource is opened through the Reading Plan (either from the homepage or the Reading Plan document) and not when the resource is opened through the library.

Personally, I think this is a good design as when I am using the Reading Plan I expect it to take me to the starting point of the day's reading and when opening the resource outside of the plan I don't particularly want to see the Reading Plan indicators.

Martin Folley said:

I may have gotten this wrong ... and missed an option ... 

I don't think so - I believe it is (nearly) working as designed.

(The "nearly" is to cover the case where RP bars are shown sometimes when opening directly from the library which, I suspect, they are not supposed to. But we would need Logos to comment on that)

Graham