This issue could also be posted in the General Logos forum because it is still there in 6.4 which has now been released. However, since the discussion started in this forum (https://community.logos.com/forums/t/101889.aspx) I thought I would continue it here. I am still experiencing a delay in the display of certain search results. I should immediately add that, so far as I can recall, this delay was not there prior to 6.1, which was a release focussed on performance. Things were improved, to a degree, in 6.3, but they are still problematic in my experience and the issue remains in 6.4.
I should emphasize that my problem is not with the speed of the search itself, which is always very quick, but with the display of the search hits. Here is my experience in summary fashion:
Obviously the problem is with the fourth bullet point. To my observation the issue seems to be that Logos is "huffing and puffing" to sort and rank the results. Or perhaps the extra delay is because Logos has to retrieve the text preview excerpts, which are displayed by default in the Ranked view but require click on a triangle to expand in the By Resource and By Count views. I'm not sure where the lag is coming from, but it would seem to me it is one of those two areas.
Since 6.3 this lag does not reach the point of having the title bar display "(Not Responding)" as often as it did in 6.1 and 6.2. However, what baffles me is why I never seemed to have any problem with the display of ranked results in 6.0. So far as I can recall, it only began after the performance update of 6.1, and I can consistently reproduce the problem after that.
Is Logos still working on this problem, or is there some technical issue that prevents recapturing the same performance that we used to enjoy for Basic searches with ranked results that we had in 6.0?
If anyone can shed light on the situation that would be appreciated. And once again, thanks for all your hard work. It is appreciated. Logos continues to be a fantastic piece of software.
PS I'm on Windows 8.1
Jason Van Vliet:A Basic search in "All Resources" or a collection, with the "Ranked" view chosen, completes the search quickly but has a very noticeable lag before displaying the hits.
I'm not able to reproduce this; could you post a screencast?
Sure, I'd be more than willing to do that. What's the best way to do it? I haven't really done a screencast before, but I suppose it's not hard to learn.
I've found Jing to be a free, easy way to take screencasts and publish them to the web: https://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
OK. I figured out the screencast. Below are two of them to compare and contrast. A few things worth noting:
Search for "Bucer" with "Ranked" Results display
http://screencast.com/t/OdUjEjNzYSu
Search for "Bucer" with "By Resource" Results display
http://screencast.com/t/e4e4e3xgMY
I hope this helps diagnose the problem. And if I can help in any other way, please let me know.
Thanks, I think that's enough for us to go on right now.
OK, I hope you're able to come up with a solution. That would be great.
Hi Bradley,
Here's another clue to the Delayed Search Results puzzle which may help you. If we stay with the same example as in the screencast, that is, searching for "Bucer", then Logos functions in a slightly different way in each of the following two scenarios:
Maybe (likely?) there's more going on behind the scenes, but from my point of view as a user, if Logos would only do what I described under the first bullet point all the time, it would be great. So long as the first window full of results pops up almost immediately, I don't mind one bit if Logos keeps ranking things further down the list. It will probably take me 5-10 secs looking at the first 10 results anyways, to decide if any of them are relevant for my purposes.
Well, if these comments help that's great.
Thanks.
Dear Bradley & Logos team,
I just switch to Logos 6.6, and I'm very thankful to report that the issue of the delay in displaying ranked search results is solved. I didn't see a reference to this fix anywhere in the release notes (although perhaps I missed it). However, the important thing is that it is fixed. Now ranked search results begin to display immediately, while the program continues to rank and populate the results in the background. Perfect!
Thanks so much.