Tips & Tricks

When I do that it changes colors completely...red, green, yellow, blue...

Are you turning the scroll wheel while you're still holding down the mouse button, that is, while you are still in the process of drawing the line?

With reference to type:Bible and similar used in collection searches ... is there any way to see the types that a particular resource responds to?

I realize that this is a Logos feature but there are freeware utilities that do this; Sketch it! being one of them.

What I miss, although if locked resources are not going to be included in Logos 4 I guess it's irrelevant, is the index that is included in About This Resource in Logos 3.  That was helpful to me in deciding whether or not to purchase a locked resource.

If you have a resource open, click the circled "I" on the right side and it instantly gives you all of the info about that resource including it's searchable fields!

I'm not convinced "I" tells the whole story, esp. when you compare fields available from the resource in v3 (Help | About this Resource | Search Capabilities).

I was also concerned about the lack of info in the new "About Resource".

I was also concerned about the lack of info in the new "About Resource".

What would you like to see?

Bob, the screen shot posted earlier by Rober P. showing the difference between Logos 3 and 4 for BDAG  is what is raising our concerns. It maybe that this information is not available now that we don't have keylinks but I would assume there is still underlying datatypes that are revlevant to setting up prefered resources (I am yet to figure out that new system) and so knowing what datatypes are underlying a resource I think are still relevant.  Also things like file location are not there - mabye not relevant at this stage of the beta  but would be good to see in final release when we have control over resources location. I appreciate the goal to keep it simple and that is a good thing.  Mabye, for want of a better description and advanced view button or setting to show the power user extra the information, assuming its still there in the system.

With reference to type:Bible and similar used in collection searches ... is there any way to see the types that a particular resource responds to?

 

 

Yes. If you open My Library or your collections and change the View to see all the fields, you can right click and add additional fields such as "subject" and "type" These will give you the fields you can enter for subject: and type: Hope that helps. It seems like most of the fields can be used to filter collections as well, so you could create collections like publisher:Intervarsity Press or publisher:logos. I can't get Publication Date to work, but maybe I'm doing it wrong.

 

Thanks for the tip David I hadn't worked that one out.  I found only 1 or 2 resources showing information for either publicaiton or electronic publication date. Series looks promising but has a lot of  'guff' in the field for resources that aren't part of a specific series. Subject likewise which I missing only seems to have 1 or 2 resources with useful information.

Another tip with this is drag either Author or series into the first column position and sort on that column. Because of the guff I mentioned earlier you get a better result with author.

From the screen shot you can see there is stil the issue of different books being published with slight variations on author name but being able to sort by author goes a long way in solving the issues that presents and for my needs that is a good solution, as I'd prefer the information to be consistent with what is in the world at large.

Resizing columns

If you have four vertical columns that are unevenly spaced and want to make them equal width , Layouts->Vertical. Even though the image shows three columns, it will leave you with four equal width columns.

Yes. If you open My Library or your collections and change the View to see all the fields, you can right click and add additional fields such as "subject" and "type" These will give you the fields you can enter for subject: and type...:

I too found this tip very helpful. While testing it I found the Cairo Fragments typed as "Bible." I would love a separate type for these resources of "Bible Fragement." They really fluff up the translation lists and are rarely used, at least by me.

Would like this also but I think there is only a slightly greater chance of this than there is of getting the full resource versions of interlinears included back in 4.0

Not really tip or trick but useful to note anyway, the three circles in the visual pane bar are coloured according to the number of items you have selected.  For example I only have 1 visual filter on two circles are white and 1 is coloured.

Small but helpful at a glance information.  What might be helpful is if each colour is representative of a particular filter.  At present I can only seem to get it to white out the bottom left circle for one resource not on and the bottom right for two resources off.

Jason

For some reason if you are in chapter 1 of a book and you type "2" (or any other number) into the ref box, it will take you to chapter 2 (or whatever chapter number you chose). But if you are in any other chapter, the number typed into the reference box will take you to the verse of that chapter.

When I'm in chapter 1 of Romans, Genesis, 1 Peter, etc.  and type "2" or another number, it goes to the verse:  Romans 1:2, Genesis 1:2, 1 Peter 1:2.  As soon as I type the number in the reference box the drop-down says Go to: Romans 1:2.  I wonder what we're doing differently?

Melissa

That's what drove me nuts with V3....the PG displays whole pericopes instead of the chosen passage