hyperlink from a Personal book to a footnote in a Logos resource and open the footnote box-window

Daniel Gray

Highlighting footnotes.

 

I made a personal book so I can highlight footnote text. 

1) Copy text of a long foot note

2) Past it into a word doc

3) Save it as a docx document

4) Import it as a personal book named “HighLightedFootNotes”

 

I highlighted the footnote number in the original resource and made a note in a Logos notes document that will include a link to the text of the footnote in my “HighLightedFootNotes” book.  This all works great.

 

Now for the reverse reference:

I also want a link in the “HighLightedFootNotes” book that will link back to the original resource so I can review the context of the note.  I highlighted the footnote number in the original resource and copied the location as a URL.  This link only goes to a place somewhat close to the copied location.

I know that it is possible to click a link that will open the footnote box-window because that is what happens in search results when the word searched for is in a footnote.  Clicking footnote in the search results will open the resource and pop open the footnote box-window.

 

Does any one know how to do it?

 

Here is the link result I get by copying the footnote text as a URL

logosres:cos1;ref=TheContextofScripture.COS_1.87;off=10672

 but I want it to open to footnote # 13.

 

I have tried looking at it with a clipboard monitor (clcl) but I did not see a more precise position than that above.

Just discovered:

 In windows "ctl + c" (cmd + c) will copy the last link you clicked through.  So I clicked through the link to the foot note from the search results and got

logosres:cos1;ref=UgariticTexts.52:8-11;off=73.  From inside the note file, this goes to the resource and focus-ring-highlight over the desired foot note reference.  But goes to the beginning of the section when this same link is followed from within the personal book.

 

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

So I clicked through the link to the foot note from the search results and got

logosres:cos1;ref=UgariticTexts.52:8-11;off=73.  From inside the note file, this goes to the resource and focus-ring-highlight over the desired foot note reference.  But goes to the beginning of the section when this same link is followed from within the personal book.

A current limitation of the Personal Book Builder (and, in fact, of Logos books in general, so it's not just a PBB issue) is that links in resources can only jump to the start of a section/article in another resource, and not to an arbitrary offset inside that article. (Unless you are linking to a data type reference, e.g., a Bible verse, in which case you can jump straight to the beginning of that verse. But again, you can only link to the beginning, not to the middle of the verse.)

We plan to update the Logos resource format to lift this restriction in the future, but I don't have an estimated date for when that will be available.