Warning of lost functions
Disappointing, wish you would have informed the user of the features that would no longer be available with this new update. Totally removed the functionality of the app for Mobile Ed users, cant access the links to suggested reading in the course, it only opens the resource to title page, the old app would open resource to the exact referenced page but no more. The split screen view allowed you to open different resource within the screen but now forces the user to tab view. I used split screen a lot.
I don't see this as an upgrade at all but now no longer is useful and really a frustrating interface. I use iPad Pro for travel and depended on the app for Mobile Ed Studies.Very disappointing that developer lost sight of the functional progress of old app.
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Hi Trent - and welcome to the forums
I doubt if this was intentional but agree it is frustrating. I didn’t see it come up during beta testing.
Hopefully someone from Faithlife will comment further.
Graham
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The split screen view allowed you to open different resource within the screen but now forces the user to tab view. I used split screen a lot.
Hi Trent, you can have a split screen/tabs still. Tap the Tabs icon in the bottom nav bar-- and then when you're zoomed out, there's an icon in the top right corner of the tab that you press to split it.
As for the mobile ed issue-- that's a bug that we're working to fix.
Thanks for sharing-- we hope you'll give us another try!
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I'm probably going to get in trouble, (and agreeing with your distress), but if you have an older ios with pre-10, it loads in the earlier version. I noticed that yesterday.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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The split screen view allowed you to open different resource within the screen but now forces the user to tab view. I used split screen a lot.
Hi Trent, you can have a split screen/tabs still. Tap the Tabs icon in the bottom nav bar-- and then when you're zoomed out, there's an icon in the top right corner of the tab that you press to split it.
As for the mobile ed issue-- that's a bug that we're working to fix.
Thanks for sharing-- we hope you'll give us another try!
Hi Daniel
Agreed you can have split screens but in the scenario Trent is describing it looks as though suggested resources are opened in a new tab not in the split screen.
This is similar to how clicking on a resource link in a commentary opens another tab as opposed to utilising the split screen
Do you envisage this changing?
Graham
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I understand the split screen and how to link the two , but that is not what I am describing.
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Think about the old app.. If you had the spilt view which you had a slider bar to open and close the view. You could have two books open and if you click on a link it would open the resource in the adjacent panel, so you could continually open resource after resource In the adjacent panel.You would also be able to use the arrow icon at the top panel to select and go to the previous book. Now with this app you can only have two books open and if you select a new book it will only open in a new tab. not in the adjacent panel or screen life the old app.You have basically limited the functionality of the split screen with this new app. Not sure why you opted to drop this feature.
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I am using the IPad Pro 10.5 and iOS 11.1.2
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Think about the old app.. If you had the spilt view which you had a slider bar to open and close the view. You could have two books open and if you click on a link it would open the resource in the adjacent panel, so you could continually open resource after resource In the adjacent panel.You would also be able to use the arrow icon at the top panel to select and go to the previous book. Now with this app you can only have two books open and if you select a new book it will only open in a new tab. not in the adjacent panel or screen life the old app.You have basically limited the functionality of the split screen with this new app. Not sure why you opted to drop this feature.
Trent, thanks for bringing this up. The new way of opening a link in an unopened resource is, indeed, undesirable.
This same annoying behavior occurs when opening a new resource from the Library. In the old app the resource would open in the split window which was active when the Library icon was clicked. Now opening a new resource opens a new window.
I hope these issues will get addressed soon, and the previous functionality can soon be restored.
Pastor, North Park Baptist Church
Bridgeport, CT USA
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