I wish Fill in the Blank Books had a "Notes" Field

Among many others of similar nature I have the MacArthur Bible Studies books in my collection. Having just started

MacArthur Bible Studies: Galatians for a Sunday School class, it occurred to me that it would be abundantly handy if these resources had the ability to receive and store written text. In fact the same kind of gizmo that's in the passage guides so that....

Instead of this:

We'd have this:

Sure I could put a traditional note there, but then the note wouldn't print. [:)]

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George Somsel

Among many others of similar nature I have the MacArthur Bible Studies books in my collection. Having just started

MacArthur Bible Studies: Galatians for a Sunday School class, it occurred to me that it would be abundantly handy if these resources had the ability to receive and store written text. In fact the same kind of gizmo that's in the passage guides so that....

I realize this would be desirable, but I also tend to think that it might be a programming nightmare. Perhaps they can and will develop in that direction, but in the meantime i would suggest simply making a note file to go with the workbook so that you can enter your answers there. Also, it's changeable.

Floyd Johnson

MacArthur Bible Studies: Galatians for a Sunday School class, it occurred to me that it would be abundantly handy if these resources had the ability to receive and store written text.

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Lynden O. Williams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/250242#Comment_250242

I second the motion Thomas. Maybe in Logos 5.

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/250219#Comment_250219

I realize this would be desirable, but I also tend to think that it might be a programming nightmare. Perhaps they can and will develop in that direction, but in the meantime i would suggest simply making a note file to go with the workbook so that you can enter your answers there. Also, it's changeable.

I agree 100% George. And for the moment, a notes file per book/series is going to be my route, I'll just have to export both of them on facing pages or something. (I print out my own copy and buy the dead tree books for the students).

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/250219#Comment_250219

I realize this would be desirable, but I also tend to think that it might be a programming nightmare.

Actually this function has been available (sorta) in legal software for years and is similar to the notes function in Google. Add it to the list of items in the uservoice note rewrite request. (actually, I will). It's just another variant.

Jacob Hantla

I agree Thomas! There are so many workbooks in our library. I ran into one yesterday and really wished I could do exactly what you said. Currently, I simply highlight the blank area and add a note to a note file. That works fine as you said but doesn't print.

MAYBE a good solution to this problem and an added benefit in other ways would be a new kind of note entitled, "IN LINE NOTE". It would be a note that could be taken in the text of the document and is printable with the document. We could then use it for fill in the blanks and also for other types of notetaking where we would like to be able to see what we have typed without clicking/hovering on the note file.

Josh Weiland

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/251072#Comment_251072

This looks like it has made an appearance in L5! In all of my "Opening Up..." series of commentaries you can now "fill in the blank". (I think it's new to L5, I'd never seen it before...) Curious where it saves the notes files, though... --- AND, if/how I can incorporate a field like this into my personal books...

Philana Crouch

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/421809#Comment_421809

This looks like it has made an appearance in L5! In all of my "Opening Up..." series of commentaries you can now "fill in the blank". (I think it's new to L5, I'd never seen it before...) Curious where it saves the notes files, though... --- AND, if/how I can incorporate a field like this into my personal books...

This was possible in recent versions of L4 as well. Also at least on the iOS versions you can type those in on mobile devices.

Josh Weiland

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/421829#Comment_421829

Any idea if it's possible to add fields like that into personal books?

Alan Palmer (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/421833#Comment_421833

Any idea if it's possible to add fields like that into personal books?

Not yet, Joshua. Keyword: "yet". [;)]

I'm pretty sure I've heard that feature mentioned, but it will take a considerable amount of planning and work and I'm not willing to go on the record promising anything (or any time frame).

Philana Crouch

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/421878#Comment_421878

Would it be possible to add the fill-in-boxes to the LifeLessons Series by Max Lucado and Read Greek in 30 Days by Larry Richards. It would be great for anything that is a textbook or study guide.

Alexander

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/421886#Comment_421886

When I first saw these options in some of the work books before L5 I was excited. I hope to see more of these active text fields!

Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/421889#Comment_421889

How cool is that? I had no idea these existed till I read this thread... nifty![:D]

Don Cameron

I don't know if anyone is still trying to add text inputs into a book they are creating in the library, but here is the basic info. I have found the id=IDENTIFIER can't start or end with a number.

Text input box

Insert a text input box for use within the compiled book.

{{input id=IDENTIFIER | type=text | lines=number | width=number | prompt="text"}}

• identifier — input id=IDENTIFIER is mandatory. The identifier value of the id attribute must be uppercase, start with a letter, and may consist of letters, numbers, underscores, hyphens, and periods. It must be unique within the resource.
• lines — lines=number is optional. This controls the vertical size of the text box, in whole number line-heights. Default is 1.

• width — width=number is optional. This controls the horizontal size of the text box, in whole number character-widths.

Note: Users can specify either lines or width. If both are given then the compiler will use lines and ignore width.
• prompt — prompt="text" is optional. This may be used to specify text that will be displayed in the text box until the user inputs something.

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