Sort by reference not available
Why is 'Reference' not available as a sort option? If this is because some notes are by selection and others by reference, is this easily fixed (i.e., made where I can sort by reference in canon order)?
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Try opening the facet menu on the left of the Notes Tool and click Bible in the Reference section. This will restrict the notes to those that are anchored by reference and you will then be able to sort them.
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I don't know what a facet menu is...do you mean the little lines that get me to the filters? and filter by 'Bible'? (see shot below)
If so, this lets me use the reference sort, but hides the notes that are by selection. I want to see them also, if only to fix them. (What an awful implementation, by the way, of the selection vs reference mess that we've had for generations now.)
The frustrating part is, every one of the 'by selection' notes has a verse reference in the anchor, but it won't let me sort by those unless I change the note type, which destroys my highlighting of words or phrases I want to emphasis. [:@]
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Doc B said:
I don't know what a facet menu is...do you mean the little lines that get me to the filters? and filter by 'Bible'? (see shot below)
Yes - that's what I meant. The list of options on the left is know as a facet menu.
Doc B said:If so, this lets me use the reference sort, but hides the notes that are by selection. I want to see them also, if only to fix them.
Doc B said:The frustrating part is, every one of the 'by selection' notes has a verse reference in the anchor, but it won't let me sort by those unless I change the note type, which destroys my highlighting of words or phrases I want to emphasis
I'm not sure I am following you here. In the example below, I have a note I originally created by selection - and there is a highlight associated with it. I then added a By Reference anchor. I can sort by Reference and the note is included. What am I missing in terms of the problem you are seeing?
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Graham Criddle said:
What am I missing in terms of the problem you are seeing?
If I highlight a single word and choose 'Selection' from the context menu to add a note, the single word I highlighted remains highlighted. But it is by Selection, not Reference, so it isn't automatically keyed to the verse it is in (at least, L8 won't treat it that way, as we saw above).
But if I choose 'Reference' from the context menu, the entire verse becomes highlighted and the single word (or phrase) gets obscured.
Does that make sense?
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Doc B said:
But if I choose 'Reference' from the context menu, the entire verse becomes highlighted and the single word (or phrase) gets obscured.
Does that make sense?
It does - and I see how it isn't helpful in that scenario.
But I'm afraid that if the notes you are trying to search do not all have a reference anchor you won't be able to sort by reference. Logos wouldn't know what to do with the notes by selection in that case.
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Graham Criddle said:
But I'm afraid that if the notes you are trying to search do not all have a reference anchor you won't be able to sort by reference. Logos wouldn't know what to do with the notes by selection in that case.
Fix: Have Logos assign anchor-less highlights a default reference of wherever it is that is highlighted, and use that for sorting. It's not as if Logos doesn't know where the highlights are.
Alt fix: Bunch all anchor-less highlights at the end of lists sorting by reference.
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