L9 Factbook Discussion
Description: When you have to squeeze sermon prep between that hospital visit and the deacon meeting, there’s no time to waste. Just search for your sermon passage or topic to find curated overviews. Or dive deep into trusted sermon resources. In addition to people, places, and concepts, Factbook now supports lookup for Bible passages, Greek and Hebrew lemmas and word senses, original manuscripts, authors, resources, and much more. Start with the Key Article for a quick summary, and click through to other Logos tools and searches to dig deeper. Factbook is available for mobile for the first time!
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Daniel Di Bartolo said:
Factbook is available for mobile for the first time!
I think I'm most excited about this as well as the increased speed of mobile.
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It’s astonishing how good this is. I’m kinda blown away. Incredibly fast, ridiculously broad and deep coverage, pleasant to navigate - it’s just a real treat.
The only negative for me is the media section - in a perfect world, I’d be able to open the desired search result as full-screen, zoomable image. As it stands, the section is useless to me - it opens the web-app to a section geared more toward printing or exporting the image rather than viewing it.
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Bruce Dunning said:
I think I'm most excited about this as well as the increased speed of mobile.
I would like to SECOND that!
Myke Harbuck
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I keep playing around with Factbook and am blown away. One can search a person and their books show up. Also, the lemma search! And grammar search! This could replace a lot of googling users do.
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Hi, Factbook does not work on my tablet if I have set the language of the Czech system. If I switch to English it's ok. (Galaxy Tab S7 - Android 10)
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Karel Vasilek, B.Th. said:
Hi, Factbook does not work on my tablet if I have set the language of the Czech system. If I switch to English it's ok. (Galaxy Tab S7 - Android 10)
Thanks. We'll take a look. Since Factbook doesn't support Czech, I would have expected this to fall back to English automatically.
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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Initial impressions are "WOW".
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Karel Vasilek, B.Th. said:
Hi, Factbook does not work on my tablet if I have set the language of the Czech system. If I switch to English it's ok. (Galaxy Tab S7 - Android 10)
Thanks for the report! This will be fixed in the next Android stable release that is published.
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Thanks..., Great support!
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How do you access Factbook on the ipad mobile app. Mine upgraded yesterday, but I can't figure out how to access Factbook on my table.
Thanks
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Ron Ferguson said:
How do you access Factbook on the ipad mobile app. Mine upgraded yesterday, but I can't figure out how to access Factbook on my table.
Thanks
If you tap the icon with three horizontal lines at the bottom right of the screen, you get a list of options. Factbook should be near the top
Does that help at all?
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Hello there.
I have an Android phone, so this may not completely answer your question.
When I looked the first time (yesterday morning) I could not find the FactBook.
Today, however, I can find it near the top of the menu, under "popular" and further down under "Tools".
To find the menu, open a resource in your app (a book, etc). You may need to tap the screen, but at the bottom you should see the 5 icons: home, read/library, plans/layouts, search, and the three lines for menu. Tap on the menu icon and it will slide out. Then scroll up/down to look for Factbook.
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Graham, it wasn't there when I clicked on the 3 dots. Does it require a Fl Connect mobile subscription? I had everything on that drop down except Factbook.
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3 lines, not 3 dots - they’re different menus. The three dots are for verse-related tools, but the three lines are a way of jumping to any tool.
Just to check, you have bought Logos 9, yes?
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Ron Ferguson said:
Does it require a Fl Connect mobile subscription?
You will need either a Faithlife Connect subscription or to have purchased a base package that includes as least the Starter Feature Upgrade
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I'll look for the 3 lines. By buy, I have 8 up to the gold package, but I haven't purchased Features and I don't have Connect. The web page isn't very clear as to access to Factbook. I'm probably wrong but I though you got Factbook on all platforms without a paid subscription.
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Ah, no. The Factbook on Mobile is a new feature with Logos 9. You need to own Logos 9 or subscribe to FL Connect in order for it to appear as an option.
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Thanks James, I'll need to re-subscribe to Connect.
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Ryland Brown said:
I keep playing around with Factbook and am blown away. One can search a person and their books show up. Also, the lemma search! And grammar search! This could replace a lot of googling users do.
we get Lena and grammar on mobile? How do I get those to show up in Facebook?
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Ok so the Emma’s have showed up if I type a person but not a theological concept like justification. They did not show up either if I type in faith. A bit confused why it shows up sometimes and not others.
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Tim Nargi said:
Ok so the Emma’s have showed up if I type a person but not a theological concept like justification. They did not show up either if I type in faith. A bit confused why it shows up sometimes and not others.
Sorry Tim but I'm not following you here.
Please clarify the issue you are seeing
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Like so many of LBS features, this one has great potential.
I do like what's been done to enhance this feature. However, here's something I noticed. Karl Barth has two different entries in the Factbook dropdown menu. Same person, of course. But each of them returns different results. The first Barth entry has a Works section which includes links to the Church Dogmatics. It also has one item under Letters (in my library): a letter included in a Bonhoeffer volume. The second Barth entry does not have a Works section. It does have a Books from Your Library section. Even though I own the Church Dogmatics, none of these volumes are listed. I also own Barth in Conversation (all 3 volumes). Volumes 1 and 3 are listed in this section, but not 2. What a mess. 
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Graham Criddle said:Tim Nargi said:
Ok so the Emma’s have showed up if I type a person but not a theological concept like justification. They did not show up either if I type in faith. A bit confused why it shows up sometimes and not others.
Sorry Tim but I'm not following you here.
Please clarify the issue you are seeing
Lemmas don’t always show up for a search, even if I type in a word like “faith.” Why is this?
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Tim Nargi said:
Lemmas don’t always show up for a search, even if I type in a word like “faith.” Why is this?
Because the Factbook is matching against the word you enter and there isn't a lemma that matches f-a-i-t-h.
If you enter pistis you will get the lemma shown
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Graham Criddle said:Tim Nargi said:
Lemmas don’t always show up for a search, even if I type in a word like “faith.” Why is this?
Because the Factbook is matching against the word you enter and there isn't a lemma that matches f-a-i-t-h.
If you enter pistis you will get the lemma shown
But when I enter DAVID I get a lemma result...
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Tim Nargi said:
But when I enter DAVID I get a lemma result...
Yes, because there is a match on letters (or maybe the underlying tagging - I'm not sure)
Try Peter where you will see a lemma but it has no relationship to the person Peter, it is just that the letters (at least the consonants) match
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Tim Nargi said:
Lemmas don’t always show up for a search, even if I type in a word like “faith.” Why is this?
The lemma is a suggestion when you type "Faith", but it's crowded out by the other suggestions. If you select the "Show all for Faith" option (or use shift-enter), then you'll find lemma options grouped together.
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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Graham Criddle said:Tim Nargi said:
But when I enter DAVID I get a lemma result...
Yes, because there is a match on letters (or maybe the underlying tagging - I'm not sure)
Try Peter where you will see a lemma but it has no relationship to the person Peter, it is just that the letters (at least the consonants) match
The autocompleter does suggest matches on the gloss of the lemma.
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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The autocompleter does suggest matches on the gloss of the lemma.
Thanks Andrew
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Tim Nargi said:
Lemmas don’t always show up for a search, even if I type in a word like “faith.” Why is this?
The lemma is a suggestion when you type "Faith", but it's crowded out by the other suggestions. If you select the "Show all for Faith" option (or use shift-enter), then you'll find lemma options grouped together.
So it does!
Sorry, Andrew, I missed that. Very nice!!
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If I'm reading a Bible or book and click on a word, is there a way to easily look this up in factbook (such as with press and hold) or do I need to copy and paste? If not, this would be a valuable addition. Also, will some level of visual filters ever come to mobil? I'm using Android.
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danwdoo said:
If I'm reading a Bible or book and click on a word, is there a way to easily look this up in factbook (such as with press and hold) or do I need to copy and paste? If not, this would be a valuable addition.
This is not currently possible if you have the "Selection" option selected on the left side. However any of the various reference options on the left side that actually show up will provide a link to Factbook.
danwdoo said:Also, will some level of visual filters ever come to mobil? I'm using Android.
I don't know the status of this.
Both of these sound like good candidates for suggestions here: https://feedback.faithlife.com/
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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danwdoo said:
If I'm reading a Bible or book and click on a word, is there a way to easily look this up in factbook (such as with press and hold) or do I need to copy and paste? If not, this would be a valuable addition.
This is not currently possible if you have the "Selection" option selected on the left side. However any of the various reference options on the left side that actually show up will provide a link to Factbook.
I’m really sorry, but I have no idea what this means - can you unpack or share a screenshot? Is it specific to Android instead of iOS?
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To clarify, I have no idea what it means to select a “Selection” option on the left side.
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In context menu (opened by selecting text and right clicking)
To select = to click on
Selection = top item on the left hand side is usually labelled "Selection" as it is what was selected text when you opened the menu
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But the options on the left are the back button (top) or home button (bottom) - the pop-up and share menu don’t seem to match either. Are we sure this relates to the mobile app?
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James McAdams said:
I’m really sorry, but I have no idea what this means - can you unpack or share a screenshot? Is it specific to Android instead of iOS?
I'm so sorry, I lost track of the fact that this post was in the Mobile forum. My answer applies to the desktop software.
I don't believe there's an option to automatically look in Factbook for the selected text.
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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I don't believe there's an option to automatically look in Factbook for the selected text.
The current work around is to copy the lemma, open factbook, and paste.
Creating a link to factbook from a long press would really be a great improvement and make the feature more accessible to MANY users. Someone mentioned something to the effect, "Factbook will eliminate many google searches." I agree... but only if users can find it!
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Love Factbook. It has officially become my go to on Mobile. I have noticed, however, that the Mobile Version pulls up resources that are not in my library. This does not happen with the Desktop Version.
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Aaron Sauer said:
Love Factbook. It has officially become my go to on Mobile. I have noticed, however, that the Mobile Version pulls up resources that are not in my library. This does not happen with the Desktop Version.
Can you share an example of which section and which Factbook page this occurs on?
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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Aaron Sauer said:
Love Factbook. It has officially become my go to on Mobile. I have noticed, however, that the Mobile Version pulls up resources that are not in my library. This does not happen with the Desktop Version.
Can you share an example of which section and which Factbook page this occurs on?
Ah. I think it has been happening with resources that I have hidden on the Desktop. I hid the the old ISBE because I have the newer edition. Factbook on Mobile is pulling up my hidden resource...and on Desktop Factbook it says no results for the Key Article
Here is what I get on Mobile Factbook:
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Aaron Sauer said:
Ah. I think it has been happening with resources that I have hidden on the Desktop.
Thanks for this information. I'll create a case for this bug.
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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Aaron Sauer said:
Ah. I think it has been happening with resources that I have hidden on the Desktop.
Thanks for this information. I'll create a case for this bug.
Thank you Andrew. I have plenty of other dictionaries/encyclopedias but it does not pull any of them up on Desktop Factbook and pulls up only a hidden resource on Mobile. This happens on other searches as well...but not all.
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Aaron Sauer said:
I have plenty of other dictionaries/encyclopedias but it does not pull any of them up on Desktop Factbook
The Key Article section is not intended to display all resources. It's looking for articles in a specific list of resources, or (if not found) will fall back to a single resource based on prioritization.
The Dictionaries section comes closer, but will show only articles that have been specifically tagged for the Factbook page.
There is a Search link at the bottom of the See Also section that can be used to try and find all places in your library that may be referring to the subject of the Factbook page.
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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Got it. I have ISBE, Revised Edition set as a priority so I am sure that as Factbook continues to be refined it will pull it in more often instead of trying to pull in an older version that I have hidden. Great work on this and, again, it is very nice to have this on Mobile!
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Aaron Sauer said:
Great work on this and, again, it is very nice to have this on Mobile!
Thanks! I'm really glad you are enjoying it!
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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