Share feature in iphone app is weird
Maybe it's just me, but today I tried the share feature in the Logos app for iphone for the first time. I highlighted the text, hit share, and everything worked fine. Then, when I went to my FB page, all I saw was a link that led to a page at faithlife.com that required me to sign in for access to my books. On top of that, it showed only part of the text I had highlighted and shared. Did I do something wrong? I figured the Share feature would do just that -- share a selected text on my Facebook wall. But it obviously does not do so.
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Jeremy said:
Did I do something wrong?
Nope. That is how it "works." I don't know if there are license agreement reasons for the behavior or not... I don't know. FWIW - I will often "share" to email to get a better result, which I copy & paste into FB. Here is the result:
"Most seminarians enter the pastoral office unaware of and ill-equipped to respond to the conflicts they will inevitably face in their churches."
http://ref.ly/o/d76365ba9897dbfa481cd1d722571da1/49269?length=143 via @LogosmacOS, iOS & iPadOS |Logs| Install
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It is weird. It may be a limitation of the way Facebook displays link postings. In my Facebook iOS app, I see the whole quote:
but when I use web browser, Facebook only displays the first 4 lines of the quote:
I would prefer that the quote be entered into a status update and not a link. That would fix the problem I think. However, Logos sees Facebook as a marketing tool, so they probably implemented this feature the way they did to get people to go to the FaithLife site. I'm not sure it's successful, though, since I don't post to Facebook from Logos because of the limitations.
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Thanks, Todd, that's how it works for me, too. When I view it in a web browser on a desktop computer, it displays only the first four lines or so, and the link then takes you to a window that has more of the text but still not all of it (at least in the case of what I quoted). It's pretty disappointing. I thought the great thing about having a Share button was that it would do just that: share it on FB with a single tap. But then I realize that I will just have to do it the "old" way--copying and pasting text directly into FB. That's okay, but it kind of makes the whole Share feature pointless.
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FWIW, I've also found the iphone app to be limited in other ways. For example, I can't do a regular text search in a book. All I can type in to the little search field at the top is a book reference, not a search string. Maybe I've overlooked something, but I don't think so.
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Jeremy said:
, I can't do a regular text search in a book. All I can type in to the little search field at the top is a book reference, not a search string. Maybe I've overlooked something, but I don't think so.
Can you give some examples?
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