[resolved] BUG: Incomplete building of Search

MJ. Smith

1. Open a BWS for the word "Servant"

2. Under Phrases, select Factbook | A Servant of a Priest

3. Under Semantic Roles --> As Experience, select clause search on "Experiencer: A Servant of a Priest"

4. Expected: the 2 results shown in the Factbook; BUG: no results because the previous content of the Search was not completely overridden - SBLGNT doesn't do much for finding an Old Testament reference.

Eli Evans (Logos)

There's at least one open case for adjusting this hyperlink, but I'm not sure we can fix this issue entirely.

The Clause Search can only search one database at a time. We currently have no whole-canon databases. So, for this example, we could automatically choose the OT database we have by checking to see if there are only hits in the OT. But other examples, say, Abraham as agent, will have hits in both OT and NT, and LXX deuterocanonicals as well. There's currently no way the hyperlink can set the search collection correctly in those cases, because it must choose one and only one database.

So instead of making effort to be right sometimes and wrong others, we decided to make the hyperlink agnostic and leave whatever the user had chosen before. It's not a very satisfactory solution. The right thing would be to re-architect the Clause Search so it can search across databases. Until then, this is likely in "won't fix" territory.