Bibliographic Report Webpage

i mentioned in this post that i am working on a Window's VB app that will mimic Mark Barnes' former website that generated a webpage which showed all your book covers in your Logos library.

Over the weekend i was viewing the books and wished that the database had them in order. So i thought that i could build an add-on feature which allowed me to manually sort the book covers in the order that i wanted. So i was wondering if there was sufficient interest in coding this feature into the app that i am building. I also thought that creating user selectable headings would be of use as well. There are several other sub-features that come to mind as well, but if there is not sufficient interest it is not worth all the extra coding.

So please let me know what you think.

Below is a quick view of quick manual change (via HTML tweaking). [click on image below to see full size]

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Brother Mark

Steve, I think that all of us would appreciate the ability to sort alphabetically, by author, title, subject, tags, pub date, collections, etc. But, frankly, I think we're all just appreciative of the effort you've already poured into the project. Thank you, sir!

--Bro Mark

Scott E. Mahle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552373#Comment_552373

Steve, I think that all of us would appreciate the ability to sort alphabetically, by author, title, subject, tags, pub date, collections, etc. But, frankly, I think we're all just appreciative of the effort you've already poured into the project. Thank you, sir!

--Bro Mark

[Y] May God richly bless you and yours, Steve. Thank you for what you do for the Logos community.

steve clark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552373#Comment_552373

I think that all of us would appreciate the ability to sort alphabetically, by author, title, subject, tags, pub date, collections, etc.

The program will not do this automatically inside the program. The catalog.db has many inconsistencies of text within its fields. So my original thought was to add tools which would allow the user to filter by Type (Logos types as found in your Library window) or Tagging (user tagging) and they manually check (a checkbox would appear next to each title) the titles to add to a list. So this would be somewhat tedious to the user. As said, inconsistencies in the db info would require this.

Although i am considering pre-sorting all title by Logos type before generating the webpage file.

steve clark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552381#Comment_552381

Below is a link to a demo view of my library.

Please keep in mind that the Demo is being loaded off the internet. This is just so you can see what the program that i am working on produces.

When the program is running on your PC, it will load very quick since all the files will be present on your PC. Also you will be viewing YOUR books not mine (as shown in this Demo).

Link to view Demo

EDIT: modified the demo to only show the 1st 10 covers for each library type.

Brother Mark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552473#Comment_552473

Beautiful!

Floyd Johnson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552473#Comment_552473

It looks great - thanks. Would it be possible to create a link associated with each image so that when chosen with a mouse click (or a touch) the book would open within LOGOS? The effect would be like walking through a library or book store and picking a book off the shelf to see if might answer a specific question or might address a larger problem.

In my mind it does not seem too much of a stretch to add links to a web page, but then I have not seen the code you are creating. Thanks for considering it.

steve clark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552537#Comment_552537

Would it be possible to create a link associated with each image so that when chosen with a mouse click (or a touch) the book would open within LOGOS?

In the Demo, try clicking on one of my books that you have in your library (e.g. ESV Bible). It should open in Logos.

Floyd Johnson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552548#Comment_552548

Wow ... thanks [:)]. Very cool.

Timothy Brown

Beautiful work, Steve. Manual sorting would be nice.

Peter Bongers

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552473#Comment_552473

Wow... this is great stuff! Thanks for what you have done so far, and keep on going! [:)]

steve clark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552680#Comment_552680

Mark Barnes deserves all the credit for how nice the pages look. It is his design that i made a few tweeks to. i am just a fellow servant who is writing code so that others can utilize his design.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552649#Comment_552649

Manual sorting would be nice.

Being able to drag and drop to reorder books on our shelves, like we can do with out physical bookshelves, would be awesome.

steve clark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552852#Comment_552852

i could use a Verbum catalog file to help me add the ability to do dual HTML file generation. So if someone who has Verbum and has less than 2500 book would be willing to share their Verbum catalog file please email me at the address below.

i only need a few, so if you send yours, please post here on this forum thread so others will know how many have been sent.

Thanks in advance.

(i will be out of town most of today, so i will not respond until later tonight)

Floyd Johnson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552939#Comment_552939

i could use a Verbum catalog file to help me add the ability to do dual HTML file generation.

Steve - I don't use Verbum, but it might be helpful to cross post this request on the Verbum forums; you might reach more of your target audience.

I am anxious to see this project move forward - thanks for all the work you are doing to make it work.

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553013#Comment_553013

it might be helpful to cross post this request on the Verbum forums

What Verbum forum? There is none.

Floyd Johnson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553031#Comment_553031

What Verbum forum? There is none.

Oops - there isn't even a Catholic forum. That does surprise me.

I guess I learned something today. Though I still think it is a good idea [:)].

steve clark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/552939#Comment_552939

removed

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553163#Comment_553163

Steve, have you looked at today's beta release notes?

(Sorry, I'm on Mac so I can't help you.)

steve clark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553167#Comment_553167

Steve, have you looked at today's beta release notes?

Sounds like i may be spinning my wheels (so to speak). If you are on the Beta, could you post a screen-shot of the Library using the new Bookshelf view?

Thanks!

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553177#Comment_553177

Sounds like i may be spinning my wheels (so to speak).

Yes, I felt a bit sorry for you when I read that.

If you are on the Beta, could you post a screen-shot of the Library using the new Bookshelf view?

I'm not, but I just found one in New Library View.

steve clark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553276#Comment_553276

Yes, I felt a bit sorry for you when I read that.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention! There are at least 2 positive things that come to mind: 1) i don't need to finish this work, 2) everyone will have access to their bookcover's view.

Thanks