Multiview - the absolute best feature for me, so far.

What is and how do you use Multiview?

thanks,

David

Thanks for the link Sarel;  I'll take a look.

update:  that's a pretty cool tool.  I'll have to check that out in L7.

David

Another unexpected benefit of Multiview is that study bible links open in a different pane.

You no longer have to navigate back to the previous content, once you're done reading the linked material.

Since the MultiView dropdown uses any user-edited resource titles and user-edited series names, you can move your most commonly used commentaries or study Bibles to the top of the list.

Use of user-edited resources/series also shows up in the other tools as well.

Most obvious, Cynthia, is the initial resource is the leader; added resources automatically link, and follow the leader. 

So you keep your place in your Bible, while reading your commentaries, etc.  

Not sure why not simply have added leader links.

Cynthia Tucker said:

How do you guys use this differently than linking various windows together?

I create shortcuts in my shortcuts bar so I can access different Bible multiview configurations in one click (people in our church use several different versions, and the 'pulpit bible' is not my preferred version):

• NIV only (personal use)
• NIV with LHB and SBLGNT (when I need quick access to original languages)
• NIV with NKJV (when preparing sermons)
• NKJV with NIV (when preparing sermons and the NKJV is substantially different from NIV)
• NIV with NKJV, ESV and KJV (a last check so I can see what 90% of congregants will see)

It achieves the same thing as multiple windows linked together, but because I can switch to a different configuration in a single click, it's much, much quicker.

Sarel Slabbert said:

I love the way I can add a commentary series, like Word Biblical, and no matter where I scroll in the Biblical text, the correct commentary from WBC opens at the correct (as far as it is possible in the layout of the commentary) place. I can also add my Hebrew and Greek Bible and only the correct one will automatically open. Absolute magic

This fixed the biggest issue I've had with Logos since I first bought L3. Great!

Cynthia Tucker said:

I was just trying to figure out Multiview's uniqueness. For example, in what situation would I choose Multiview over Layouts and when would I choose Layouts over Multiview.

I don't view them as mutually-exclusive choices. Here's some background: in every seminary course or online exegetical study I watched in which some type of bible software was used, it was always BibleWorks or Accordance using their version of what is now Multiview in L7. So I've been asking for this kind of feature for a long time.

When using the techniques available in the past, either only 1 translation was visible at a time; or, if i tried to manually create something like multiview, each tab took so much space (window borders, scroll bars, etc.), that you couldn't get very many translations to all appear at the same time. And even then it wasn't a seamless experience.

So my main text window is now multiview. By hover or click, it's much easier to see the equivalent words / forms in the other views than before. But I still have multiple windows open with historically-typical layout panels for other kinds of resources.

Donnie

Just a couple of days ago someone showed me the Follow option in Text Comparison when that tool had a linking bug. So I thought all resources had that, but I see they don't; it's just Text Comparison. So I understand better now the benefit of Multiview to keep one resource stationary.

I have a layout that I've used for quite sometime: Text Comparison (floating); 2 bibles in the left pane, with one linked and one not (to eliminate the problem described above) as well as other tabs I might need like search, word study, etc;  and in the right pane about 12 commentaries, all in individual tabs, so I have to click each one to see them.

When I get the time, I will recreate this scenario in Multiview to see how it works, though I suspect all those commentaries will take up too much room, even though I do have two monitors. I could probably limit them. I only regularly consult about 3 or 4 of them, but I occasionally look at them all for a particularly difficult passage of scripture.

I assume Multiview can work in conjunction with other tools, interactives, etc. Mark seemed to indicate that unlike layouts, perhaps more than one Multiview can be open at a time?

MJ. Smith said:

The Antioch Bible i. e. Kiraz, George A., and Andreas Juckel, eds. The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible with English Translation: Deuteronomy. Translated by Carmel McCarthy. Antioch Bible. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013.

Do you have this as a Logos resource?  I don't see it available at this time.  I have Kiraz's original language Peshitta and his lexicon, but it's hard to use since I don't know Syriac.

Where would I locate Multiview and Sermon Editor?