iPad Suggestion - Pin feature on search bar
I realise there are limitations to an iPad app. But if there was one small thing I would like to see it would the the ability to "pin" the Search bar facility. Ever time you click on a searched item on the left bar it brings up the whole book and the search bar then disappears. It is a little tedious to search in this way.
But if a "pin" button could hold it in place until you find what you are looking for, that would be great for searching. And then "unpin" it when you find what you are searching for.
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Stephen McCracken said:
It is a little tedious to search in this way.
Exacerbating the tedium is the fact that the search results don't display the title of the works in question. On Saturday I did a search with a fairly lengthy list of results. I had absolutely no idea what resource would come up when I touched one of the results.
Donnie
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Donnie's point is a good one (and you wonder if the iOS guys/gals search with their iPads). I'm an iPod'er so 'pinning' probably isn't in my future.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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My frustration searching on iPad has been solved by the latest IOS update today. When viewing a searched book, I swipe the screen from the left and the searched item list appears again. I like the changes Logos.
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Overall, the search behavior seems much improved in the 4.0 release. However, the details provided in the search results list is still lacking. The title of the resource in question has to be displayed, in addition to the heading text of the "section" of the resource that the matching text was found in.
Donnie
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Donnie, I agreed with you points about the previous version.
But now each search hit includes the Section/chapter heading and then the Title of the resource.
Underneath these titles we find the sentence the search as a hit in.
Do you want the search to display more of the paragraph that the search relates to rather than just one line?
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Stephen McCracken said:
But now each search hit includes the Section/chapter heading and then the Title of the resource
That's not what I'm seeing. I see more detail, but not the title of the resource. I checked this by going into several resources in a search results list and comparing the resource title (top of page and in the "Info" popup) against the text displayed in the search results. They did not match.
I'd prefer the resource title being the first thing in the top line of a search results entry, followed (if appropriate? optionally?) by a section / chapter / article heading. And all the matches from a single resource ought to appear together in the search results (which I don't believe is the case now).
Donnie
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