Determining which commentary is which from parallel commentaries window

Hi there

I am coming across a problem with the 'parallel commentaries' window, shown below. When looking for a parallel commentary, there is no additional information about a commentary available. This makes it quite hard to distinguish between commentaries, before opening them, unless you happen to be able to remember what the cover looks like. It would be nice to have the commentary series show in the text description or additional information show when hovering over the commentary name. Are there any options I'm missing to enable further information?

thanks

Paul

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John Fidel

I agree. I think if you rename the resources they display as you name them but we shouldn’t have to do that. I often have to go to the title page because I forget what the abbreviations mean as well.

Morgan

There are no options to toggle more information.

A workaround is to rename your commentaries as I have below to include all the relevant info:

As you can see I haven't gotten around to renaming every single book as the work is fairly tedious and works better with series. To rename a book open the information panel from the book or from the library panel and you can click the title to edit.

Doc B

Not ideal, for sure.

An easy fix would be to allow a hover to show a pop-up of a detailed biblio, similar to hovering over a tab.

Morgan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1324302#Comment_1324302

Not ideal, for sure.

An easy fix would be to allow a hover to show a pop-up of a detailed biblio, similar to hovering over a tab.

1

This is already a feature. It just takes a moment for it to show up.

Doc B

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1324311#Comment_1324311

This is already a feature. It just takes a moment for it to show up.

Fascinating...I've never seen it....guess I'm not waiting long enough.

1Cor10 31

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1324275#Comment_1324275

I also give my own "Short Title" so as to be able to know what book it is. But as the others have said, this is time consuming work, even to do it just for the prioritized books.

My question: Is there a way to automate renaming Short title as "Series-Last name of Author"?

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1324312#Comment_1324312

This is already a feature. It just takes a moment for it to show up.

Fascinating...I've never seen it....guess I'm not waiting long enough.

I suspect this is old toolbar vs. new 'dynamic' resource toolbar. The popup is absent from the new toolbar.

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1324515#Comment_1324515

This is already a feature. It just takes a moment for it to show up.

Fascinating...I've never seen it....guess I'm not waiting long enough.

I suspect this is old toolbar vs. new 'dynamic' resource toolbar. The popup is absent from the new toolbar.

I can confirm (running Logos 37 with new toolbar and Verbum 36.1 with old), that's the issue - and should be fixed soon.

Paul M

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1324311#Comment_1324311

This is already a feature. It just takes a moment for it to show up.

Thanks Morgan, I was obviously not waiting long enough. If I wait a bit longer it does appear. Interesting that most people have not spotted this, perhaps an indication that the wait is too long?

Morgan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1324515#Comment_1324515

This is already a feature. It just takes a moment for it to show up.

Fascinating...I've never seen it....guess I'm not waiting long enough.

I suspect this is old toolbar vs. new 'dynamic' resource toolbar. The popup is absent from the new toolbar.

I am running with Logos Pro and have the new dynamic toolbar with popups. Seems inconsistent user to user then?

Roger Pitot

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1324529#Comment_1324529

Interesting that if you are in Insights and click on the down arrow next to a commentary, the series are clearly shown next to each name

Christian Alexander

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1324535#Comment_1324535

Open the Information panel (found in the Tools menu) and hover over each commentary. This will provide a brief description of the resource, though it does require an extra step.

Doc B

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1324535#Comment_1324535

if you are in Insights and click on the down arrow next to a commentary, the series are clearly shown next to each name

Useful info...thx!!

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1324516#Comment_1324516

This is already a feature. It just takes a moment for it to show up.

Fascinating...I've never seen it....guess I'm not waiting long enough.

I suspect this is old toolbar vs. new 'dynamic' resource toolbar. The popup is absent from the new toolbar.

I can confirm (running Logos 37 with new toolbar and Verbum 36.1 with old), that's the issue - and should be fixed soon.

... and I see this fixed in Logos 38 Beta 1.

Kristine Lewis

I have the Logos PC desktop update to 38.0.578 today. I hoped to see a popup book info on hover for parallel books in my commentary window, with author, series and rating info. But there is no popup on hover for parallel books in this update. I thought that was going to be addressed. This feature was present until my Pro subscription rollout.

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1347289#Comment_1347289

Hm.

I see that in my Logos 38.0.578 sofware:

Kristine Lewis

I am referring to the Commentary window and not a Bible window. I am not referring to Add parallel text on the toolbar but to the small downward arrow next to the commentary book icon (hovering over the downward arrow shows Change book). Clicking on the small downward arrow presents All parallel books, with a dropdown menu listing all my commentaries for the scripture passage and book of the bible I am studying. I used to enjoy a popup of additional book information when I hovered over any of the commentaries listed in the dropdown menu, including series, author and rating. It was useful to see more than the title or partial title and book icon of the parallel commentaries I have to choose from.

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1347437#Comment_1347437

Yes, sorry. I saw that yesterday when looking at my own screenshot from an earlier v38 beta earlier in the thread. I even confirmed (to my astonishment) that the fix existent in that beta did not make it to the stable v38 - some unintended regression perhaps? Conflicting check-ins of people working in the same area of source code? Somebody starting work on a section of the new toolbar from an outdated code base?)

The fix needs to be reinstated.

Paul M

As far as I can see, this has gone backwards I am not seeing book info when hovering either on the list of options generated by the Add Parallel Texts option, or when clicking the book image shown to the left of the bible reference when viewing a commentary. It seems that there are several regression here or at least inconsistencies. I am running 38.0.