Translations and guides

Background: some commentaries (oddly, aggravatingly) are published separately from the commentaries' translations. Such as:

Allen P. Ross' Psalms (2 volumes of commentary, 2 volumes of text [translation])
Eugene Merrill 1&2 Chronicles (1 volume commentary, 1 volume text [tr])
J. J. S. Perowne Psalms (2 volumes commentary, 1 volume text [tr])
J. A. Motyer's translations of Psalms and Isaiah (contain commentary, but aren't displayed with commentaries on Passage Guide)
Etc.

On the Commentaries section of the Passage Guide, only the commentary displays, not the translation. There is no Text or Translation section that I can find. So when I want to see the translation that goes with the text I'm reading, it's a chore to find — which is not the case with the hard copy.

My questions are:

How can I get the translations added to the Commentaries section on the Passage Guide tab?
Failing that, how can I create a Translations section in the Passage Guide and include these and similar books?

Thanks!

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MJ. Smith

Background: some commentaries (oddly, aggravatingly) are published separately from the commentaries' translations

This is deliberate and unlikely to change because it allows the translation to behave as a Bible and the Commentary to behave as a Commentary. My complaint is the opposite of yours - the Bibles that are embedded in commentaries that cannot be accessed as Bibles. There are two ways around your problem:

make the two parts a series and use the parallel resources function
make the two parts connected via a multi-view window - my method of choice.

How can I get the translations added to the Commentaries section on the Passage Guide tab?

By making the translation an added resource in a multi-view window on the commentary

Failing that, how can I create a Translations section in the Passage Guide and include these and similar books?

By making them into a collection ... but they are already treated as Bibles and should be available as parallel resources.