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In Logos 8, the fully redesigned Home Page gets you into Logos quicker. Customize your launch pad for the ways you use Logos most, so you can launch right into your favorite workflows, reading plans, layouts, and more.

We've provided information on using the Home Page here:

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Bruce Dunning

Now we just need the real thing to go live.

Graham Owen

One thing that I really liked about the old home page and used a lot was the easy access to my reading plan.

In Logos 7 the link for today's reading took me straight to the open Bible in my current workspace at the correct locations.

In Logos 8 it opens a new workspace, I'm sure that this is configurable but how to change this is not immediately obvious to me.

Can anyone help? Please!!!

David Taylor, Jr.

One thing that I really liked about the old home page and used a lot was the easy access to my reading plan.

In Logos 7 the link for today's reading took me straight to the open Bible in my current workspace at the correct locations.

In Logos 8 it opens a new workspace, I'm sure that this is configurable but how to change this is not immediately obvious to me.

Can anyone help? Please!!!

This is a known issue.

Daniel

Each time I launch Logos 8, I have to keep resetting the home page to 'auto' for the columns to fill my screen. It seems to default to 4 columns which is annoying as I want it wider!

Cynthia in Florida

My understanding is that they're working on this...

Alan Palmer (Logos)

Each time I launch Logos 8, I have to keep resetting the home page to 'auto' for the columns to fill my screen. It seems to default to 4 columns which is annoying as I want it wider!

Thanks, Dan. Sorry for the inconvenience, we are working on persisting this setting.

Graham Owen

One thing that I really liked about the old home page and used a lot was the easy access to my reading plan.

In Logos 7 the link for today's reading took me straight to the open Bible in my current workspace at the correct locations.

In Logos 8 it opens a new workspace, I'm sure that this is configurable but how to change this is not immediately obvious to me.

Can anyone help? Please!!!

This is a known issue.

Does anyone know when this will be fixed?

I accept that I can workaround this but wish that I knew about this before I took the plunge because like the Note function, where the changes were highlighted, its something that I use daily.

What is the logic for opening a new workspace?

Jim Julian

How do you change Bibles now; did they do away with downloaded books info? Jim Julian

Mark Barnes

How do you change Bibles now; did they do away with downloaded books info? Jim Julian

Can you explain what you mean by "change Bibles"?

John Fidel

How do you change Bibles now; did they do away with downloaded books info? Jim Julian

Your preferred bible is now set in the library. See the Quick Start Video on Library for further details.

In addition when you click on the menu on the left side you can see all the books downloaded or updated within a certain number of days.

Jim Julian

You use to have 3 Bibles to set. How do you change to set a different Bible?

Jim Julian

Where are the Quickstart 8 videos?

Dan Francis

Go box is completely neutered. Under previous versions entering a verse/ verse range automatically brought up a passage guide. Now all it does in verbum is open the bible to the verse. This is a major step back and will turn my study into a more complicated thing. I have no idea how to fix this. At thing point i really would love to downgrade to 7.

-dan

SineNomine

You use to have 3 Bibles to set. How do you change to set a different Bible?

Your preferred bible[s] [are] now set in the library. See the Quick Start Video on Library for further details.

David Taylor, Jr.

Go box is completely neutered. Under previous versions entering a verse/ verse range automatically brought up a passage guide. Now all it does in verbum is open the bible to the verse. This is a major step back and will turn my study into a more complicated thing. I have no idea how to fix this. At thing point i really would love to downgrade to 7.

-dan

Type the reference or reference range, wait one second and click "Open Passage Guide"

Alan Palmer (Logos)

Go box is completely neutered. Under previous versions entering a verse/ verse range automatically brought up a passage guide. Now all it does in verbum is open the bible to the verse. This is a major step back and will turn my study into a more complicated thing. I have no idea how to fix this. At thing point i really would love to downgrade to 7.

-dan

When entering a reference, the box should provide you with a drop down menu of options. In the Layout category you will find "Open Passage to <reference>".

Graham Owen

How do you change Bibles now; did they do away with downloaded books info? Jim Julian

Your preferred bible is now set in the library. See the Quick Start Video on Library for further details.

In addition when you click on the menu on the left side you can see all the books downloaded or updated within a certain number of days.

It looks like upgrading to Logos 8 is going to be more painful than I anticipated and I'm starting to regret not waiting longer. I was expecting a more polished Logos 7 and was certainly not expecting to have to watch a Quick Start Video on the Library to find out how to change the preferred Bible. It's beginning to feel like a lot of stuff that was not broken in 7 has been fixed in 8.

Personally I'm not a fan of videos so what I need is a Quick Start guide to what has changed, is there such a document?

Phil Gons (Logos)

Go box is completely neutered. Under previous versions entering a verse/ verse range automatically brought up a passage guide. Now all it does in verbum is open the bible to the verse. This is a major step back and will turn my study into a more complicated thing. I have no idea how to fix this. At thing point i really would love to downgrade to 7.

-dan

This will be fixed in 8.1. For now, you just need to hit the down arrow before hitting enter or clicking Go.

Fred Chapman

Where are the Quickstart 8 videos?

If you have the Quickstart Videos in your library, then you can view them within logos. If not then you cn view a library video here

John Fidel

Hi Graham,

The videos are not long, easy to follow and go step by step through some of the changes and set up. Give them a try and I think many of your concerns will be resolved. If you still find things difficult or frustrating post back.

Mark Barnes

Personally I'm not a fan of videos so what I need is a Quick Start guide to what has changed, is there such a document?

The "big picture" of what has changed is here: https://community.logos.com/forums/t/173743.aspx

The Home Page is all new, so there isn't a list of everything that is different from the previous version. That would be quite tedious. But apart from Notes, there's nothing else where there are major changes from L7 (there are major additions, of course, but that's a different issue). There are also changes to the Documents and Tools menu, and the Library, but there's very little lost functionality there.

PS - Do you change your preferred Bible often?

Don Randolph

In Logos 7, I had set what would come up on the home page to items I utilized most. Now, I am seeing things from Proclaim Blog and other items I don't normally use. Is there a way to decide what will and won't come up on the home page in the "Explore" section?

David Taylor, Jr.

In Logos 7, I had set what would come up on the home page to items I utilized most. Now, I am seeing things from Proclaim Blog and other items I don't normally use. Is there a way to decide what will and won't come up on the home page in the "Explore" section?

This is being worked on and is coming in a future release.

Simon’s Brother

Once again Logos has released software that is not ready for the end user and have made workflow changes that impact upon the way we use the software everyday. They only ask fanboys and girls to private beta test and so don’t get honest feedback on whether the software is ready. I used to be a private beta tester but the stopped asking me because I gave honest feedback about things like this and they did not want to hear it. They only want to hear from people who say yes, Bob, the software is great. Users shouldn’t have to be changing workflow and then have to change it again when 8.1 is released because the software was prematurely released. And if L8 is supposed to simply things why would you move the ability to changed preferred bibles from the home page or bury a link to a users account in the about page when it also used to be one click away in a visible position on the home page. Once again FL designers have forgotten the everydSh user with some of these backwards changes for the sake of change.

MJ. Smith

The Home Page has changed the definition of the meaning of the "Saints" section/card. Mind you, the change of meaning doesn't bother me per se ... but the loss of functionality does.

In L7, the sidebar "Saints" was intended solely for the calendar of saints celebrated by a particular church - a short list for Anglicans and Lutherans had their calendars ever been build. The meaning has been changed to be all saints recognized by a particular church/resource.

That may sound picky but the new meaning assumes that the resource is designed in calendar order where the main driving resource in L7 is in alphabetical order. This difference makes it so one no longer sees the multiple saints that may be assigned to a date and that "next" is a meaningless next saint alphabetically.

The new definition of "saints" has distinct advantages for adding additional church calendars which I will try shortly. But it does require a new edition of Saints. Bellingham, WA: Verbum, 2013. that is in calendar order rather than alphabetical.

Required actions for Faithlife to clean this up:

Saints card must have calendar function
"Next" must be limited by date OR multiple saints shown for the date
the resource "Saint" must be revised to work with the new definition of the function of the Saint card/section

In the next few days, I'll build the equivalent to "Saints" for another denomination to see if other issues appear.

MJ. Smith

The Library "type" item has either changes the meaning of Calendar Devotional OR tagged some resources in error. Calendar devotional previously meant solely "secular calendar"; items indexed by liturgical date could not function as a devotional on the Home Page. However at least these resources are indexed only by liturgical date but are tagged as Calendar Devotions. Therefore, they show up as options for the Daily Devotional on the Dashboard, but if selected do absolutely nothing.

Oden, Thomas C., and Cindy Crosby, eds. Ancient Christian Devotional: A Year of Weekly Readings: Lectionary Cycle A. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2007.
Oden, Thomas C., and Cindy Crosby, eds. Ancient Christian Devotional: A Year of Weekly Readings: Lectionary Cycle B. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2011.
Oden, Thomas C., and Cindy Crosby, eds. Ancient Christian Devotional: A Year of Weekly Readings: Lectionary Cycle C. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2009.

My preferred solution would be to expand Daily Devotional to include Liturgical Date Devotionals ... there are a number of additional resources that are used in this manner. Until that is accomplished, items that cannot be used on a Daily Devotional card should not be listed as options.

Don Randolph

Thank you David. I will be looking forward to cleaning it up again. Don

MJ. Smith

Leithart, Peter J., David A. deSilva, Greg Forster, Craig L. Blomberg, Robert N. Wilkin, Mark L. Ward Jr., R. Michael Allen, et al. Reflecting on the Word: Video Devotionals (Year A). Logos Mobile Education. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016.

I would like to be able to schedule resources such as the above on the home page as a Daily Devotional rather than Courses because I would like it to present the reflection appropriate to the date rather than where I last left off.

Dave Hooton

They only ask fanboys and girls to private beta test and so don’t get honest feedback on whether the software is ready. I used to be a private beta tester but the stopped asking me because I gave honest feedback about things like this and they did not want to hear it.

That is demeaning a number of people you know well from the forums, because the feedback they gave was honest, and passionate at times. And they got equally honest responses... So here we are, and I can safely say that your feedback would not have made any difference to the outcome.

Going forward, I hope that you can provide feedback without getting personal, as 8.1 isn't the end of the line.

William Walker

Leithart, Peter J., David A. deSilva, Greg Forster, Craig L. Blomberg, Robert N. Wilkin, Mark L. Ward Jr., R. Michael Allen, et al. Reflecting on the Word: Video Devotionals (Year A). Logos Mobile Education. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016.

I would like to be able to schedule resources such as the above on the home page as a Daily Devotional rather than Courses because I would like it to present the reflection appropriate to the date rather than where I last left off.

I'm in agreement with M.J. that this would be useful and time saving to bring up reflection/devotion based on relevant date. I believe this was requested in the Logos 8 wish list as well.

PetahChristian

Any plans for a layout card which lets us open one of our custom layouts?

Kiyah

Any plans for a layout card which lets us open one of our custom layouts?

I second this.

Phil Gons (Logos)

Any plans for a layout card which lets us open one of our custom layouts?

I second this.

Yes. We'd definitely like to expand the layout card to include all layouts, including your own saved layouts. We did this already on the mobile app. No time frame, but definitely on our list of ways to improve the homepage.

Pastor Keith

Hi Kyle, how do I delete the cards on the explore part of the home page?

Alan Palmer (Logos)

Hi Kyle, how do I delete the cards on the explore part of the home page?

This is coming soon. We are actively working on this issue.

Sean

I mostly like the redesign and think the home page will be nice once it goes through a few cycles and user suggestions are incorporated. However, the Reading Plan cards are a step backwards in that they don't have all the functionality that they did when they were part of the left-hand menu.

I just finished a plan. I don't use custom plans, so when I finish the body of a work, usually a day or two of bibliography pages etc. are left to check off before the plan is completed. There's no easy way to do this from the home screen like there was in prior versions of Logos, at least as far as I can see. I had to open the Plan document in order to do it. The same problem is there, I assume, if I read ahead and miss clicking on a reading completed bar.

Also, usually I delete a plan after I finish it. In the former setup, this was very easy to do setup at the same as removing it from the lefthand menu. In 8, I had again to go into the documents menu to do it. I also had to refresh the home page before it was removed from the dashboard.

I'm sure this will become more intuitive as I get accustomed to the new UI, but it would be good if the Reading Plan cards were given more functions than they have at present.

Pastor Keith

Thanks for the reply.

Thomas Winter

Thank you for this suggestion.

I also have some devotional resources like:

Johnson, Marshall D., ed. Day by Day We Magnify You: Daily Readings for the Entire Year. Revised Edition. Minneapolis: Augsburg Books, 2008.

which also use the liturgical calendar. It would be nice to have this and other devotional resources I use to be recognized for what they are. I understand that some sort of liturgical calendar converter will be required, especially with differing calendars in East and West. I follow the older one-year lectionary for Lutherans, so I recognize that I am really in a small minority here, but I would settle for the western common calendar at least.

jedi008

Where can I see what resources were updated? In 7, it was on the Home screen, but I cannot seem to find that.

Thomas Winter

I came to the forum for the same issue. I'm sure it's there, but I can't find it.

Sean Boisen

I came to the forum for the same issue. I'm sure it's there, but I can't find it.

You can see what resources were updated in the Library filter: see https://community.logos.com/forums/p/174400/1007704.aspx#1007704 for an example.

Reuben Helmuth

Where can I see what resources were updated?

In the library open the sidebar and scroll down to the last two facets.

Richard Bush

Can you edit the Explore section of the Home Page? And if not, why not?

Graham Criddle

Can you edit the Explore section of the Home Page? And if not, why not?

Not yet - it is something that is being worked on. I think the plan this is introduced in 8.1

Whyndell Grizzard

For the life of me, I do not understand why you are still telling everyone that user control of the "explorer" section is coming SOON- 6 weeks is not soon- its a life time to look at all the nonsense.

MJ. Smith

For the life of me, I do not understand why you are still telling everyone that user control of the "explorer" section is coming SOON- 6 weeks is not soon- its a life time to look at all the nonsense.

I guess it depends on your age ... 6 weeks is very soon when you're my age ...

Graham Owen

For the life of me, I do not understand why you are still telling everyone that user control of the "explorer" section is coming SOON- 6 weeks is not soon- its a life time to look at all the nonsense.

I guess now its more like 5 weeks, remember though that if this does make the first update it is likely to be the first iteration so may not do everything that you want or expect.

Valerie Pobog

I cannot get my homepage to open to more than just 2 columns although it has the option to open to 5 via the sprocket (settings). What is wrong and how do I fix this?

MJ. Smith

What is the size of your monitor? It will only show as many columns as can fit.

Valerie Pobog

17 in only shows 3 columns. [:(] ; Thank you MJ

Mike Binks

17 in only shows 3 columns. ; Thank you MJ

My 13in MacBook Pro shows four at default scaling

Jim Julian

Where are the QuickStart 8 videos; are they only in certain udates?

Whitney Geter IV

Is it possible to add customized saved layouts to the home page as panels? I know you can add the pre loaded ones such as bible and commentary or topic study but what about the custom saved layouts that i've made?

PetahChristian

Is it possible to add customized saved layouts to the home page

Not yet, but it's a request that FL has heard and plans to implement. I'm looking forward to that feature, myself!