Serial\Parallel resource associations in L4?

Richard Lyall
Richard Lyall Member Posts: 1,017 ✭✭

Is it still possible to create user-defined serial and parallel resource associations?

I normally serially link a GNT to a Hebrew OT but I haven't found a way to accomplish this in L4.

Thanks
Richard

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  • Melissa Snyder
    Melissa Snyder Member Posts: 4,702 ✭✭✭

    If you prioritize a Greek and Hebrew Bible, then double-click the area next to the tab of your English Bible (not on the +), it will open your Greek text with a NT passage and Hebrew text with an OT passage. You can use the New Tab feature (click the +) to choose a resource with the same passage from a broader list.

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 35,767

    If you prioritize a Greek and Hebrew Bible, then double-click the area next to the tab of your English Bible (not on the +),

    Very sneaky (NOT obvious).

    But could we do it without creating another tab then get back to the original resource ala v3?

    Dave
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    Windows 11 & Android 13

  • Damian McGrath
    Damian McGrath Member Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭

    If you prioritize a Greek and Hebrew Bible, then double-click the area next to the tab of your English Bible (not on the +), it will open your Greek text with a NT passage and Hebrew text with an OT passage. You can use the New Tab feature (click the +) to choose a resource with the same passage from a broader list.

     

    Melissa, 

    My does not do this. It opens the next bible in the priority list.

     

  • Richard Lyall
    Richard Lyall Member Posts: 1,017 ✭✭

    Doesn't work for me ... when double clicking, the new tab opens with a resource but ...

    1. With an NT passage, I get the Lexham English Bible when I do this with an NT passage, but
    this is not a prioritised resource. My top priority is NA27 but this
    does not appear.

    2. With an OT passage I get the TNIV

    Am I missing something?

    Richard

     

     

  • Phil Gons (Logos)
    Phil Gons (Logos) Administrator, Logos Employee Posts: 3,799

    Am I missing something?

    You will need to put your Greek and Hebrew Bibles as numbers 2 and 3 in your resource priority list right after your preferred English Bible.

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    In my case, I have the SESB Hebrew OT and Greek OT, which are serially connected, set at number 2.

  • Damian McGrath
    Damian McGrath Member Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭

    Phil,


    When we do this, it means that the number of linked resources other than bibles is greatly reduced in the right-click context menu for bible references.

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    I think that the context menu needs to have more than 5 possible targets.
  • Phil Gons (Logos)
    Phil Gons (Logos) Administrator, Logos Employee Posts: 3,799

    When we do this, it means that the number of linked resources other than bibles is greatly reduced in the right-click context menu for bible references.

    Not sure I followed. Can you try that one more time? :)

  • Damian McGrath
    Damian McGrath Member Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭
    Phil,



    I had set up my preferred resources so that if I right-clicked on a bible reference or selected a block of text in a bible and right clicked on it that.....in the context menu under "Reference" at the bottom it would show two English bibles - NJB and NRSV, Harper's Bible Commentary and Oxford Bible Commentary (when available) and then start working through other commentary series until there was a hit (starting with WBC).



    By placing NA27, BHS and LXX higher up in my preferences list, the first four suggestions for a reference "keylinking" (what do you call that?) are now all bibles for Old Testament resources.



    Does that make sense?
  • Phil Gons (Logos)
    Phil Gons (Logos) Administrator, Logos Employee Posts: 3,799

    By placing NA27, BHS and LXX higher up in my preferences list, the first four suggestions for a reference "keylinking" (what do you call that?) are now all bibles for Old Testament resources.



    Does that make sense?

    Okay. I understand what you are saying, but I'm having a difficult time figuring out how adding a Hebrew and Greek Bible could change the list that significantly. Would you mind posting four screenshots: before and after of your resource priority list and your context menu options?

  • Damian McGrath
    Damian McGrath Member Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭

    Have to get back to you on the screenshots (if you still want them) as I have to fly out the door now.

    But, I lowered the priority of NA27, SESB, LXX to after my commentaries but before my other English bibles. This allows me to both access these resources through double-clicking next to the new tab button and does not cause them to appear in the right-click context menu ahead of my commentaries.

    The problem is that they do not need to be in 2nd and 3rd place, they simply need to be before other bibles.

  • Richard Lyall
    Richard Lyall Member Posts: 1,017 ✭✭

    I've done that but it doesn't work as described - double clicking the tab area brings up TNIV or Lexham English Bible.

    How can I serially connect two resources of my own choosing?

    I don't want to have to open a new tab every time - what I'm after is the existing NA27 tab which is synched to my English Bibles to locate the current Bible reference in NA27 or LHI depending on whether it's an NT or OT passage ...

    Do users have any way of creating serial resources? If not, please consider restoring this functionality!

    Thanks
    Richard

     

  • Richard Lyall
    Richard Lyall Member Posts: 1,017 ✭✭

    Oh I think I get it, a key bit of info assumed but not mentioned in any previous post ...

    When you double click, you get the next resource OF THAT TYPE in the new tab - if the rightmost tab you click on is NA27, you get an original language Bible when you double click.

    if it's an English Bible, you get the next highest priority English Bible, or a system-selected one if you have no more Bibles prioritised.

    This is quite far short of a user-defined serial\parallel resource facility though!

  • Mark Martin
    Mark Martin Member Posts: 147 ✭✭

    When I press the "+" sign, I get a list of resources that coincide with my resource so that I can choose the next one I want to open.  Can I add to that list.  i.e. - When I have Grudem's Sys Theo, open and I click the +, I receive a short list of related sys theo items.  I would like to add other Systematic Theologies in my Library to that list so that I have the ability to choose them.  Chafer's Sys Theo is not listed.  How can I add Chafer's to that list that opens?

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 35,767

    Oh I think I get it, .....

    This is quite far short of a user-defined serial\parallel resource facility though!

    I've spent some time aligning Prioritised resources with my v3 Keylinking for Greek/Hebrew/Aramaic and Preferred Bibles but it is frustrating to have to go thru a resource for each data type to find what its defaults are, then prioritise enough resources for use on the context menu.

    As for serial and parallel resources - the single list is getting too long to remember what it is accomplishing. I don't want to open new tabs and then close them again as I'm running out of tab space for double-clicking (yuk) and then it doesn't open the resource I expect. And I'm still not sure how to set up a serial association.

    Let me illustrate Parallel Resource lists after pressing +


    Prioritised List LGNTI Parallel
    LHI Parallel  
    ESV NET NET
    NET LGNTI LHI
    ... NA27 Int AFAT
    LGNTI ... ...
    NA27 Int ... ...
    LHI ... ...
    AFAT ESV ESV

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    From the Prioritised List you can see that the Parallel Resources for LGNTI (Greek Bible) and LHI (Hebrew Bible) are what you would expect except that ESV is languishing a long way down the lists instead of being on top! My mistake was using Advanced Settings to select Bible (ESV) data type(?). When I deleted the entry and re-inserted it as default, ESV came to the top of each list! What is Bible (ESV)?

    Now, how do I setup a serial association with LGNTI and LHI and does it execute when I type an OT reference in LGNTI text box?

    Dave
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    Windows 11 & Android 13

  • Phil Gons (Logos)
    Phil Gons (Logos) Administrator, Logos Employee Posts: 3,799

    The problem is that they do not need to be in 2nd and 3rd place, they simply need to be before other bibles.

    Correct. Sorry for not being clear. I meant 2nd and 3rd in your list of Bibles, not necessarily in your entire list.

  • spitzerpl
    spitzerpl Member Posts: 4,998

    Phil Gons said:

    Correct. Sorry for not being clear. I meant 2nd and 3rd in your list of Bibles, not necessarily in your entire list.

    Color coding the books (with a block, not just a font color) in the prioritized list according to the type of book might make it easier to know where we need to put things. For that matter being able to filter the list somehow could be beneficiary.

  • Phil Gons (Logos)
    Phil Gons (Logos) Administrator, Logos Employee Posts: 3,799

    Color coding the books (with a block, not just a font color) in the prioritized list according to the type of book might make it easier to know where we need to put things. For that matter being able to filter the list somehow could be beneficiary.

    Neat ideas, Philip. I'll pass these along.

  • J.R. Miller
    J.R. Miller Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭✭
    Maybe that would help Philip, because I don't understand a single thing being discussed.. boy I feel dumb.

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  • Bohuslav Wojnar
    Bohuslav Wojnar Member Posts: 3,466 ✭✭✭

    Color coding the books (with a block, not just a font color) in the prioritized list according to the type of book might make it easier to know where we need to put things. For that matter being able to filter the list somehow could be beneficiary.

    Yes, good idea. If there is no other way how to keep the different type of resources separate - the color blocs would work.

    Bohuslav

  • Richard Lyall
    Richard Lyall Member Posts: 1,017 ✭✭

    There are at least two conversations going on in this thread - let me pick up Dave Hooton's point again. There needs to be a way to create serial associations, but I've been making this point already so won't labour it again here.

    I believe the prioritise\resource associations\keylinking side of the program needs a rethink!

  • Simon’s Brother
    Simon’s Brother Member Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭


    Color coding the books (with a block, not just a font color) in the prioritized list according to the type of book might make it easier to know where we need to put things. For that matter being able to filter the list somehow could be beneficiary.

    Yes, good idea. If there is no other way how to keep the different type of resources separate - the color blocs would work.


    At the very least we need this colour coding... removal of keyllinking has taken away far too much  this new system is confusing and very difficult to manage

  • Simon’s Brother
    Simon’s Brother Member Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭


    There are at least two conversations going on in this thread - let me pick up Dave Hooton's point again. There needs to be a way to create serial associations, but I've been making this point already so won't labour it again here.

    I believe the prioritise\resource associations\keylinking side of the program needs a rethink!


    Agreed Richard the orginal question has not been answered , and partly that is because this new proritize resources is not really working it keeps coming up and hijacking our thoughts... A re-think is clearly required

  • spitzerpl
    spitzerpl Member Posts: 4,998

    Maybe that would help Philip, because I don't understand a single thing being discussed.. boy I feel dumb.

    The reason its being discussed is because none of us understand it either :-)

  • spitzerpl
    spitzerpl Member Posts: 4,998

    Agreed Richard the orginal question has not been answered , and partly that is because this new proritize resources is not really working it keeps coming up and hijacking our thoughts... A re-think is clearly required

    My guess is that this is in a soon to be beta. I think that this feature (serial resources) is replaced by the series column in the library (I tested it with the Pulpit commentary and the commentary pane did not follow the scripture outside of the specific commentaries' book). My guess (aka conspericy theory)  is that the just don't want to tip their hand as to whats coming down the pike. If I'm right then we should be able to define our own series in the future.

     

  • Simon’s Brother
    Simon’s Brother Member Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭


    Agreed Richard the orginal question has not been answered , and partly that is because this new proritize resources is not really working it keeps coming up and hijacking our thoughts... A re-think is clearly required

    My guess is that this is in a soon to be beta. I think that this feature (serial resources) is replaced by the series column in the library (I tested it with the Pulpit commentary and the commentary pane did not follow the scripture outside of the specific commentaries' book). My guess (aka conspericy theory)  is that the just don't want to tip their hand as to whats coming down the pike. If I'm right then we should be able to define our own series in the future.

    When you can confirm this moves from conspericy theory to trumor can you confirm for us back here.... we are all (well maybe just me and I thnk Dave H) really frustated with the lack of resource management so far offered in this beta

  • spitzerpl
    spitzerpl Member Posts: 4,998

    When you can confirm this moves from conspericy theory to trumor can you confirm for us back here.... we are all (well maybe just me and I thnk Dave H) really frustated with the lack of resource management so far offered in this beta

    I'm still waiting on contact with my mole at Logos headquarters. He's gotta be real careful. They're brutal out there.

  • Simon’s Brother
    Simon’s Brother Member Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭


    When you can confirm this moves from conspericy theory to trumor can you confirm for us back here.... we are all (well maybe just me and I thnk Dave H) really frustated with the lack of resource management so far offered in this beta

    I'm still waiting on contact with my mole at Logos headquarters. He's gotta be real careful. They're brutal out there.


    The way features have been culled from L3.... brutal is an understatement ;-)

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 35,767

    My guess is that this is in a soon to be beta. I think that this feature (serial resources) is replaced by the series column in the library

    Well spotted, Phil. The "Be Series" is one that works as expected. But there was an incomplete Series for the Tanakh!

    Dave
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    Windows 11 & Android 13

  • Wyn Laidig
    Wyn Laidig Member Posts: 401 ✭✭

    I still think the best solution is to give users an "advanced option" to show prioritized resources by data type, and be able to drag and drop into that list in the section showing that particular data type.

  • George Allakhverdyan
    George Allakhverdyan Member Posts: 1,075 ✭✭✭

    FYI Resource prioritization is still in the works