Is there a way to search for products on all the FaithLife web sites simultaneously? Rather than checking LOGOS, Vyrso, Verbum, etc., separately, but to search all the possible sources with a single search?
No.
Has Bob or some other FaithLife rep suggested why this has not been implemented? It would seem easy to set up a common catalog and allow the user to filter-out results if they are only interested in results from only one or two FaithLife publishers.
Has Bob or some other FaithLife rep suggested why this has not been implemented?
Not to my knowledge.
There is a suggestion on the Logos.com UserVoice forum which is crying out for more votes. I've just added a comment to it to make sure they have it address ALL of the Faithlife product sites, not just Logos and Vyrso as the original suggestion was worded.
Go vote for it. This UserVoice forum doesn't compete for your 10 votes available for Logos features, so you can probably afford to put the max of 3 votes on this. It uses your same login email address as for the other UserVoice forum and Logos.com.
https://logosdotcom.uservoice.com/forums/183408-general/suggestions/6719655-in-product-search-let-the-user-know-if-its-availab
Added my three votes - makes a lot of sense, both for the user and for the company.
It would seem easy
Apparently it isn't. The Vyrso site in particular is very "bare bones" in functionality.
With over 47 years experience in the computer industry, I find that really hard to believe. Certainly easier than some of the other searches LOGOS has implemented.
I do hope this gets done - I expect LOGOS loses some sales given the current set of tools.
A workaround I use is https://community.logos.com/forums/p/82288/575992.aspx#575992
I don't believe there should be a resource on Verbum that is not part of Logos. At least that is my experience so far, which is not exhaustive. I have pointed out on a couple of occasions where a sale item on Verbum was not reflected in Logos, but the Catholic sales rep was able to forward that discrepancy to the right department to have it listed on both. I'm thinking there is not an intention of having a disconnect between the sites, although sometimes it happens. I'm not sure the same thing is true with Noet. I'll do some checking.
That does not solve the problem between LOGOS and Vyrso.
I don't believe there should be a resource on Verbum that is not part of Logos.
I'm not sure the same thing is true with Noet.
I think that's true with Noet too, at least it has been so far. In fact, the Noet website used to redirect people to the Logos website to purchase, but now it has its own shopping cart. They might have future plans to add more resources for Noet that are not on the Logos site, but at least they are all for now "Logos editions" (as opposed to eBooks). Perhaps there will someday be a Noet edition which has different features for other non-biblical scholarly literary studies. But for now there isn't.
