Several Questions and a Few Beefs

1. I have several commentaries that I use regularly. How can I set them to open on seperate tabs in the commentary window by defaualt? I have added them by clicking on the plus tab in the window and selecting the commentaries but when I exit Logos and come back in they are all closed but the default commentary. Is there a way to get Logos to remeber multiple tabs as a default?

2. In Logos 3, I routinely used the Home button the launch my default homepage, usually the Standard Sunday School Lesson Commentary. From there, I couldopen the desired lesson, lesson handouts, powerpoints, etc. However, I have found no way to do this in Logos 4. This is a multi-step process whereas in Logos 3 it was much easier. From my Library or from my Lesson Commentary Collection I can open the desired lesson Commentary and jump to the lesson desired but I cannot seem to get to the Powerpoints or lesson handouts. I was hoping that I could customize the default Logos 4 homepage to do this but haven't been successful. Is there a way to duplicate or immulate the homepae function in Logos 3.

3. Logos 4 appears to have all my purchased books but not my collection of PBBs. Will they eventually be available for use in Logos 4?

4. In Logos 3 I had gone to some length creating a number of desktops for different types of studies. However, I was disappointed that they were not imported/converted and abailable in Logos 4. Anyway to do this without reinvinting the wheel? How can I recreate and save multiple desktops?

5. Logos 4 didn't bring over my notes from Logos 3. Anyway to do this? Also, I cannot get hyperlinks to work in the notes. Anyone else having this problem?

6. At times Logos 4 seems to get a bad case of the slooooows. This happens sometimes when selecting text, typeing (sometimes it takes a moment or two for the displayed typed text to catchup to these slow fingers of mine) and so forth. Not seeing this in Logos 3 or any other application.

7. What are the different fields for above the text area of a note file?

Well, that's enough for now.

Thanks,

Michael

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Ken McGuire

1) Put your prefered commentaries at the bottom of your list of prefered books. I say bottom, because if they are above the bible, bible references will pull up the commentary instead of the bible. If you do this, your top commentary will open whenever Logos opens a commentary and your next favorites will be there waiting for you to add them.

2) Logos 4 has dropped 3rd party home pages. I hope that somehow something like this functionality will be created via a Logos book for future productions like the Standard Lesson series, but I suppose we will have to wait and see.

3) PBBs will return as full Logos books in the new format. Logos has explained that the old PBBs were too tied to MS IE to import easily...

4) Custom Workspaces are gone. They are now called Layouts. Whenever you have the screen looking like you want, go to the Layouts button and you can move any of the temp layouts over to the left to make them saved layouts. After moving them over, you will probably want to click on the little pencil to rename it.

5) Note import is coming real soon.

Please check out http://www.logos.com/4/missingfeatures

TCBlack

1. I have several commentaries that I use regularly. How can I set them to open on seperate tabs in the commentary window by defaualt? I have added them by clicking on the plus tab in the window and selecting the commentaries but when I exit Logos and come back in they are all closed but the default commentary. Is there a way to get Logos to remeber multiple tabs as a default?

Create the layout the way you want it then:

Click layouts
Locate the right now layout at the top,
click the tiny pencil next to where it says "snapshot: (time)"
Rename your layout.
Anytime you want to come back, click layout's and it will be on the left side the list, one click and bang there it is.
If you uncheck "use homepage" under the customize on the home screen, AND you close L4 with that layout open.... when you restart L4 it will open to your layout.

2. In Logos 3, I routinely used the Home button the launch my default homepage, usually the Standard Sunday School Lesson Commentary. From there, I couldopen the desired lesson, lesson handouts, powerpoints, etc.

Use the same procedure to create a layout and save it for your Sunday school lessons, one click and you'll be there in one step in the future.

3. Logos 4 appears to have all my purchased books but not my collection of PBBs. Will they eventually be available for use in Logos 4?

Yes, PBB support is coming, see the "what's missing" link in my sig.

4. In Logos 3 I had gone to some length creating a number of desktops for different types of studies. However, I was disappointed that they were not imported/converted and abailable in Logos 4. Anyway to do this without reinvinting the wheel? How can I recreate and save multiple desktops?

See the answer to #'s 1 & 2. [:)]

5. Logos 4 didn't bring over my notes from Logos 3. Anyway to do this?

See the what's missing link in my sig, import is coming very soon.

I cannot get hyperlinks to work in the notes. Anyone else having this problem?

I haven't tried, so I'll let someone else answer that one.

6. At times Logos 4 seems to get a bad case of the slooooows.

I think we're going to see more optimizations coming, there have already been three service releases. Keep reporting things like this here and the programmers will get it. Please start your posts with a good title, like: "BUG: Slowdown when clicking menu". (is that ok Damian? [;)] )

7. What are the different fields for above the text area of a note file?

Bohuslav Wojnar

I exit Logos and come back in they are all closed but the default commentary. Is there a way to get Logos to remember multiple tabs as a default?

Have you tried Layouts? It is very easy to create them by opening and moving stuff around as you like and then to rename the last layout with your desired name. You can have loads of them [:)]

EDIT: now, you are rally fast guys. [Y]

TCBlack

EDIT: now, you are rally fast guys.

Yeah, I think Thomas needs a break. I'm going to go do something less stressful for awhile, like build a handout...[:|]

Damian McGrath

I'm going to go do something less stressful for awhile, like build a handout...

LOL.... truly...

Rev. Michael L. Burns

Kenneth,

Thanks. This helps a lot.

Michael

Rev. Michael L. Burns

Thomas,

Thanks for your detailed assistance. This helps a great deal. However, as for the Sunday School Lesson Commentary, although I can easily set up a layout for studying for each weeks lesson, there appears to be no way to get at the lesson handouts and Powerpoints from withing Logos 4 since they were accessable from the old homepage in Logos 3. So for now I;ll just continue to use Logos three for my SS studies. Thanks again. You've cleared up a lot of fog between the ears.

Michael

Rev. Michael L. Burns

Bohuslav,

Just now finding my way around layouts. Hadn't even noticed them before. Thamks,

Michael

MJ. Smith

However, as for the Sunday School Lesson Commentary, although I can easily set up a layout for studying for each weeks lesson, there appears to be no way to get at the lesson handouts and Powerpoints from withing Logos 4 since they were accessable from the old homepage in Logos 3

I agree that this is a loss. I've used the ISSL materials as a means of verifying that my materials are adaptable across a range of denominations.