[resolved]Is the selection of resources working correctly
I wanted to provide a list to use in lieu of the standard Top Bibles. I expected to be able to do it as a selection criteria on abbreviated title but have found I have to use the full title ... which makes it as easy to drag and drop. Is this behavior the intended behavior?
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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That is what I would expect.
JB without the quotes matches anything with JB as a substring in the abbreviation, which includes JBL. Putting quotation marks around it forces it to match whole words only. That's why JPS still matches all those JPS Commentary volumes.
You'd probably get better results if you added type:bible to your starting filter. And then you probably won't need to use the quotation marks. Note that I don't have JB but otherwise, this works for me, and should be what you'd expect:
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That also is not quite what I want - I want JPS but not JPS CT; NRSV but not NRSVCE. I've created what I needed but I did not realize that library attribute matches were anywhere in the string i.e. like a Find even within quote marks. But that does explain why people use "Commentary" when they want "Bible Commentary" and ignore the extra books. And I don't mind the way it works - it just means my shortest short cut didn't work ... but drag and drop was only slightly more work.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Yeah, but at least this has the effect of limiting the selection of resources to a reasonable number that you can then select and drag and drop.
I don't think there's any way to make a library filter match exactly only the text you give it. It's always a subset. And it appears to only do subsets from the beginnings of words. For example, the reason type:bible JB doesn't match anything in my library is that I have NJB but not JB (I guess they don't sell JB yet), and JB doesn't match NJB. I kind of wish that substrings worked regardless of where in a word they appeared, but perhaps the developers have ascertained that it would give unwanted results more often than it would be helpful.
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No, they don't sell the JB which is a sore point for English speaking Catholics outside North America. It is the JB not the NJB that is used for the lectionary in much of he world.
Edit: I had confused the behavior of mytags with the general behavior of the library filter.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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