Insights Feature Request: Persist Related books selection

In the Insights Sidebar, if I use the Change dropdown to select a resource in the "Related books" section, that selection is reset to the Faithlife Study Bible the next time I open that Layout. I think that selection should persist along with all other selections when the Layout is updated.

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Jed Royce

It might even be nice if there was more of an option to add or subtract the number of related books, i.e. commentary sets, etc. Right now I perceive insights as a shortcut to the factbook…… but without utilizing book prioritizations. Which leaves me returning to the factbook to find what I'm really looking for.

MJ. Smith

@Jeff Fischer

The Related Books section is based on your highest priority study Bible and Bible commentary. Change your priorities in the Library prioritization panel and the change is permanent. See https://support.verbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019683812-Prioritize-Books#:~:text=prioritization&text=prioritization

Jeff Fischer

Thanks @MJ. Smith . Interesting. I did have other resource types prioritized, including Bible Commentaries, but when I examined the list, I saw that I did not have a Study Bible resource type prioritized. I added the one I wanted, and behold: that selection automatically replaced the default Faithlife Study Bible on a relaunch of Logos.

So again, thanks for that workaround; however, I would still like my original request to be given consideration. The non-persistent selection is still an issue, but at least now I can make it default to the one I want most often.

MJ. Smith

@Jeff Fischer

I don't see it as a work around. The books chosen are based on your priorities; the change option in the panel is for immediate, temporary viewing. I can see why you might want to make it semi-persistent while you are doing a particular task but I would be concerned that making it persistent would make it unpredictable - but then I put up with very computer savvy cats who set things I don't know how to reset except through a reboot.

Jeff Fischer

@MJ. Smith

Fair enough. Computer-savvy cats notwithstanding 😉, I guess I'm looking for more flexibility in the Insights column. Currently it appears to have three sections: Related Books, Related Passages, and Cross References. The Related Books section is further subdivided into two (unnamed) panels, which appear to feature your highest-priority Study Bible and your highest-priority Bible Commentary (oddly in v40 that order has reversed, at least for me). What I'm after is for the Related Books section to instead remember what resources you had selected there (via the Change drop-down) the last time you saved that layout using Update active layout.

But I'm perfectly willing to accept that I'm not using the Insights column the way it was intended to be used, and that very few others are interested in seeing it behave the way I want. Perhaps instead I should train my cat to traverse my keyboard precisely enough that this feature appears to have been implemented. 🐈️🐈️🐈️ 😀

MJ. Smith

Having the saved layout retain a change is much more likely than a more generic save as it is easily traced back to its source. It's those things that make people say "the system changed - I didn't do it" when it fact they did do it and simply don't remember or didn't know what it did that create support nightmares.