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  • Jacob Hantla
    Jacob Hantla MVP Posts: 3,871


    ... please let me know if you run into any issues.
    ...

      By Mobile Web, I assume you must not also mean the beta desktop website (library.logos.com)--I don't see any reading plan functionality there...would really love to...I can't sign into the mobile site at work; we seem to block the sign-in mechanism.

    He is referring to the library.logos.com designed for mobile phones. If you want to access it from your computer and you get the beta desktop one, go to http://library.logos.com//?beta=false

     

    Jacob Hantla
    Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
    gbcaz.org

  • Bryan Smith
    Bryan Smith Member, Logos Employee Posts: 442

    By Mobile Web, I assume you must not also mean the beta desktop website (library.logos.com)--I don't see any reading plan functionality there...would really love to..

    Correct, we have not yet added reading plans to the desktop version.

     

    I can't sign into the mobile site at work; we seem to block the sign-in mechanism.

    All of our sites do authentication the same way. If you can sign in to one of them then you're automatically signed in to all of them. You could even sign in to the desktop version of the site & then switch to the mobile version & still be signed in.

  • Jonathan Sine
    Jonathan Sine Member Posts: 453

    Bryan - the Reading Plan is extremely helpful. Thanks for pushing to get this done!

    Jonathan Sine

    Pastor - Squamish Baptist Church

    2 Cor. 4.6

  • Ward Walker
    Ward Walker Member Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭


    If you can sign in to one of them then you're automatically signed in to all of them.


     I think I economized on words to the detriment of clarity; I can use the web versions on my laptop browser on my work network--what doesn't work for me is to sign in using my Blackberry across that same work network. I get the browser to the point where Logos asks for my username/password, but it won't accept that successfully.  Not a big deal, but odd.

  • Howard
    Howard Member Posts: 24

    count me in!

  • J Marais
    J Marais Member Posts: 14 ✭✭

    Very cool, thanks.

    Just two comments - one a potential bug:

    • On various Opera browsers (e.g. V5 beta 2), I see square symbols - at the top of the reading plan list (once you selected a reading plan) for example. It seems like an unprintable character. If I could draw it here I would. Its a rather big square - similar to how a checkbox looks.
    • I would like being able to jump to a section of the reading plan - thus... I selected to read in one session a part of Gen - Mal, Psalms & a part of Mat - Rev. Now if I completed the first of these three 'reading plan sections' & get interrupted I'd like to be able to click on the Psalms part (which is also 'hyperlinked') to take me directly to Psalms. Currently clicking there or on the 'NT part' link takes me to the beginning of the complete 'reading portion'.

    Hope that makes sense & would help others too.

    As I said, its very cool & its a great help to make progress when the PC is just not available or too much 'overhead' to "boot up".

    Best Regards.

  • J Marais
    J Marais Member Posts: 14 ✭✭

    ...by the way - those "checkbox-like looking" squares show up in Bible text as well sometimes.

  • Bryan Smith
    Bryan Smith Member, Logos Employee Posts: 442

    JMarais said:

    On various Opera browsers (e.g. V5 beta 2), I see square symbols - at the top of the reading plan list (once you selected a reading plan) for example. It seems like an unprintable character. If I could draw it here I would. Its a rather big square - similar to how a checkbox looks.

    It is actually a unicode check mark character, indicating that you have completed that reading. I didn't think it would be a problem displaying it on phones, but clearly I was mistaken. I'll swap it out for an image that should work everywhere.

     

    JMarais said:

    I would like being able to jump to a section of the reading plan

    Thanks for pointing that out. I'll look into it.

  • Bryan Smith
    Bryan Smith Member, Logos Employee Posts: 442

    JMarais said:

    On various Opera browsers (e.g. V5 beta 2), I see square symbols - at the top of the reading plan list (once you selected a reading plan) for example. It seems like an unprintable character. If I could draw it here I would. Its a rather big square - similar to how a checkbox looks.

    It is actually a unicode check mark character, indicating that you have completed that reading. I didn't think it would be a problem displaying it on phones, but clearly I was mistaken. I'll swap it out for an image that should work everywhere.

     

    JMarais said:

    I would like being able to jump to a section of the reading plan

    Thanks for pointing that out. I'll look into it.

    Both of these issues should be resolved now. Thanks for the report =)

  • Bryan Smith
    Bryan Smith Member, Logos Employee Posts: 442

    JMarais said:

    ...by the way - those "checkbox-like looking" squares show up in Bible text as well sometimes.

    The boxes are drawn in place of characters when your device doesn't have the correct glyph. Unfortunately if your device doesn't have the fonts required there's nothing we can do.

  • Steve M.
    Steve M. Member Posts: 29 ✭✭

    Just wanted to say thanks, Bryan, for the reading plans.  I appreciate your responsiveness.  This is a great tool.

  • Bryan Smith
    Bryan Smith Member, Logos Employee Posts: 442
  • J Marais
    J Marais Member Posts: 14 ✭✭

    Hi

    I've noticed an anomaly that occurs when alternating reading on the
    PC & on the mobile site (or it seems to be the cause, can't say for
    sure). My reading plans become duplicated like 'plan x (2)', 'plan x
    (3)' etc.

    Any idea why this happens?

    ...also just noticed that I only see these duplicates on the mobile phone / web version. These ones below don't sync into the PC version somehow (even though some duplicates did sync to the PC version before ... don't know why ... or the problem originates on the PC version maybe???).

    Please advise.

    See below of how this looks - I guess you can 'simulate / switch' to my account & enable some trace logs or something to inspect & debug ;-)

    Also... my reading plans become invalid sometimes since the freqency (e.g. read on Mon, Wed, Fri) disappears & becomes blank - then I have to re-specify the frequency & it 'recovers'.

    Thanks & Regards.

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  • Ward Walker
    Ward Walker Member Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭

    I'll put one more plug / plea in for the reading plans to also become accessible through the PC Beta version of library.logos.com ... that would be a very nice add.

  • David A Egolf
    David A Egolf Member Posts: 798 ✭✭

    I just found library.logos.com this week.  I am using it from a Google Nexus One.  I added a new reading list for a book so that I could read it on my droid, but it will not show up on the list.  The updated reading list did show up on my laptop after I created it on my desktop, but it does not show up on my mobile device.

    I just figured out that the book is not available on the mobile library!!  I post this since others may experience the same problem.

  • Paul Engel
    Paul Engel Member Posts: 20 ✭✭

    It would be a definate plus!  I've been considering an eReader and, thanks to Logos, the iPad is top of my list.  But between the number of books not available and the fact that my reading plans and prayer lists aren't available is basically a deal killer.

  • Gary Alvin McCabe Jr.
    Gary Alvin McCabe Jr. Member Posts: 9 ✭✭

    I thought that the reading plan I was reading on my PC would sync with the reading plan on my Ipad app. . .So where ever I read it last it would always be a the right spot where I went to read it next.  As it is right now I cannot get my Ipad app to recognize that I've deleted an old reading plan off of my logos 4 on my PC and set up a new one.  Am I expecting too much?  Am I doing something wrong?  Thanks for any insight.

  • Jacob Hantla
    Jacob Hantla MVP Posts: 3,871

    I thought that the reading plan I was reading on my PC would sync with the reading plan on my Ipad app. . .So where ever I read it last it would always be a the right spot where I went to read it next.  As it is right now I cannot get my Ipad app to recognize that I've deleted an old reading plan off of my logos 4 on my PC and set up a new one.  Am I expecting too much?  Am I doing something wrong?  Thanks for any insight.

    No, your expectations are correct and are the normal behavior of the app. Normally all changes you make to your reading plan are reflected across all devices. I don't know what exactly happened in your case, but I know that Logos has been having issues lately with syncing to the mobile devices when conflicts arise (i.e. a change was made on the mobile device while also being made on the computer prior to syncing). This may be what happened. Hopefully Dave Dunkin sees this thread and can fix it for you. Most of the time when I have had issues with syncing like this, it automatically gets repaired within a day or two.

    Jacob Hantla
    Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
    gbcaz.org

  • Gary Alvin McCabe Jr.
    Gary Alvin McCabe Jr. Member Posts: 9 ✭✭


    Thanks for getting back to me about this.  I found that eventually it does sync up correctly.  Usually it's after a few hours or by the next day, never immediately like I hoped.  But it's functional and I'm glad to have it!

     

    A friend of mine has an IPod Touch that he cannot get the reading plan to sync on at all. . .not sure what advice to give him.  He is logged into logos on the device and the device is Wi fi enabled, so it's not a simple user error type thing on his part.

     

    Thanks again. . . Loving using logos for reading. . .I'm using the M'cheyne reading plan.  Are there any others presets to choose from. . . I like the preset plans on youversion but want to have the power of logos available to me as I go through the readings.

  • Gary Butner, Th.D.
    Gary Butner, Th.D. Member Posts: 483 ✭✭

    Have two Bible reading plans showing. How do I delete one?