Newly created clipping file has [Add Clipping] Grayed Out

I have not used Clippings before. I have read Proctor's Training Manual on Clippings. I have updated Logos to 4.0b (4.02.3.7337). After creating a new clipping file and giving it a name, the [Add Clipping] button is grayed-out and I cannot add any clippings. I created a 2nd clipping file and I have the same problem. What do I do to resolve this????? HELP!

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Kenneth Neighoff

The way to get something into your clipping file, which is like the old note card system that I used in college, is this. When you are working in a commentary, highlight the material you want to copy, right click and you will see in the lower right hand the clipping file you just created. Click on that and your highlighted text will appear in the clipping file, with the bibliography info on the backside of the card.

Melissa Snyder

Once you select text in a resource, the 'Add Clipping' button will be available.

Dennis Audet

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/105183#Comment_105183

Kenneth - Thank you for your reply. I tried selecting text in a commentary as you descriped and I was able inset a new clipping using the right-mouse method and it worked very elegently.

However, I want to copy and paste text from a webpage. I should be able to "paste a clipping from the clipboard to an existing clipping or to a new clipping". In order to do this, the [Add Clipping] button would need to work.

I have highlighted commentary text and when having done so, the [Add Clipping] button is enabled and when clicked, it adds a new clipping.as expected.

It appears to me that the clipping feature only works with resources within Logos and does not extend to the outside world - unfortunate!

Dennis Audet

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/105184#Comment_105184

Melissa - Thanks for your reply. You are correct. I discovered that the resource must be a Logos resource. Web content will not work at all, to my disappointment.

Friedrich

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/105217#Comment_105217

Melissa - Thanks for your reply. You are correct. I discovered that the resource must be a Logos resource. Web content will not work at all, to my disappointment.

Dennis, one thing you could do is paste the web content into an open clipping. One way might be to make a clipping of a scripture (that is relevant), and then paste your web content in the notes section of that clipping. You can play around with variations of that, including pasting into the clipping itself--you just need to be sure that you realize that clipping's content is not directly related (necessarily) to the bibliographic info on the flip side of the clipping. The notes section is a bit better. Alternatively you could create a note (not clipping) and paste the content or hyper link into that.

Dennis Audet

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/105219#Comment_105219

Dan - thanks for your input. Actually, I was considering using Clippings because after importing all of my Logos 3 Notes, and upon seeing that I could no longer DIRECTLY ACCESS an individual note in a large Note file (because there is no longer a list of the "Note Titles" from the Note Properties' Dialog). This was a huge disappointment to me. I was using the L3 Note feature as an Index Card system, with and without hyperlinks and Biblical References which gave me direct access by way of the list of Note Titles. It worked extremely well for me. The L4 Note feature has no such Title list. A L4 Note file with hundreds of notes would have to be searched sequentially. In L3, I didn't have to remember any tags or such, just look through the list of titles. L4 Notes, in some respects, is little better than Wordpad. I know you can link a note to an article, passage, verse - that's a great feature, especially across versified resources - Amen!

Melissa Snyder

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/105300#Comment_105300

Actually, I was considering using Clippings because after importing all of my Logos 3 Notes, and upon seeing that I could no longer DIRECTLY ACCESS an individual note in a large Note file (because there is no longer a list of the "Note Titles" from the Note Properties' Dialog). This was a huge disappointment to me. I was using the L3 Note feature as an Index Card system, with and without hyperlinks and Biblical References which gave me direct access by way of the list of Note Titles. It worked extremely well for me. The L4 Note feature has no such Title list. A L4 Note file with hundreds of notes would have to be searched sequentially.

It will be possible in a future release to collapse all the notes at once, so you have a compact view of titles only.

Friedrich

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/105350#Comment_105350

It will be possible in a future release to collapse all the notes at once, so you have a compact view of titles only.

that will be nice! Thank you!

Dennis Audet

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/105350#Comment_105350

Melissa - would that be in 4.0c?

I look forward to that day. Thank yoy...