General question on Collections

Ken Shawver
Ken Shawver Member Posts: 516 ✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

Is there a way when opening the Collections icon that it starts showing the OPEN tab rather than the NEW? Because Logos automatically creates a new collection and I don't want that. Unless someone has a better solution, I am all ears as I know there are a great number of power users I use to work with years ago.

Thanks for any advice.

In Christ,

Ken

Lenovo Yoga 7 15ITL5 Touch Screen; 11th Gen Intel i7 2.8Ghz; 12Gb RAM; 500Gb SDD;WIN 11

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,440

    Ken Shawver said:

    Is there a way when opening the Collections icon that it starts showing the OPEN tab rather than the NEW?

    Unfortunately, no.

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 35,776

    Ken Shawver said:

    Is there a way when opening the Collections icon that it starts showing the OPEN tab rather than the NEW? Because Logos automatically creates a new collection and I don't want that. Unless someone has a better solution, I am all ears as I know there are a great number of power users I use to work with years ago.

    Thanks for any advice.

    Keep it in your layout to avoid creating a new collection.

    Dave
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    Windows 11 & Android 13

  • Andrew Batishko
    Andrew Batishko Member, Administrator, Community Manager, Logos Employee Posts: 5,395

    The newly created empty collection should get removed when you close the Collections panel, so it shouldn't show up anywhere after that. Are you not seeing that to be the case?

    Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer

  • Chris Heil
    Chris Heil Member Posts: 166 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1302766#Comment_1302766

    Andrew Batishko said:

    The newly created empty collection should get removed when you close the Collections panel, so it shouldn't show up anywhere after that. Are you not seeing that to be the case?

    It does get removed when the Collections panel is closed.  All those deleted Unnamed Collection collections show up as deleted documents in https://documents.logos.com/ which bloats the number of items if/when I try to undelete a document/collection.  I recognize I can use the filter to narrow the list though.  Just strange that a new collection would be created each time the tool is activated when often I am simply wanting to tweak and existing collection.

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  • Ken Shawver
    Ken Shawver Member Posts: 516 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1302766#Comment_1302766

    Andrew, it is apparently removed when one closes the Collection function, but - at least in my case, and I get the feeling from others - I go in to look at my existing Collections the first option should not be "New" or at least an Option to allow me as the user to select if I want it to default to "New" or "Open" when accessing Collections.

    Forcing someone to start with "New" is not helpful or intuitive. Intuitive would allow you to see what Collections you have because it you have a lot you don't have them memorized (at least I don't as it seems a waste). Then if you want to create a Collection then being able to select "New".

    In Christ,

    Ken

    Lenovo Yoga 7 15ITL5 Touch Screen; 11th Gen Intel i7 2.8Ghz; 12Gb RAM; 500Gb SDD;WIN 11

    http://wiki.logos.com/

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