Help with searching personal letters

I am playing around with this feature for the first time and find it interesting. I can get results using {Label Personal Letter}

I change the string to {Label Personal Letter WHERE Author ~ Athanasius} Knowing I have a letter from him found in the {Label Personal Letter} search and it does not show up.

Am I missing something? Is the tagging incomplete in this feature? I notice I have letters from Spurgeon that don't show up as well.

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GregW

I right-clicked on the name Athanasius at the top of one of his letters, and it gave me this syntax, which appears to work.

{Label Personal Letter WHERE Author ~ <Biography Athanasius of Alexandria>}

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/857895#Comment_857895

I right-clicked on the name Athanasius at the top of one of his letters, and it gave me this syntax

That's the best way to get syntax when you know a place where the text is tagged.

The Help file resource, under Searchable Labels, shows the syntax + an example {Label Personal Letter WHERE Author ~ <Biography C. S. Lewis>}

The datatype <Biography> has to be used. To get the correct name type Athanasius in a Search box and select a Person symbol with description that matches e.g. Athanasius of Alexandria. This will then give you <Biography Athanasius of Alexandria>, for the label search!

Mike Tourangeau

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/858336#Comment_858336

I right-clicked on the name Athanasius at the top of one of his letters, and it gave me this syntax

That's the best way to get syntax when you know a place where the text is tagged.

The Help file resource, under Searchable Labels, shows the syntax + an example {Label Personal Letter WHERE Author ~ <Biography C. S. Lewis>}

The datatype <Biography> has to be used. To get the correct name type Athanasius in a Search box and select a Person symbol with description that matches e.g. Athanasius of Alexandria. This will then give you <Biography Athanasius of Alexandria>, for the label search!

This worked, Thanks! This can be a useful search in trying to find where a person talks about suffering or some other known topic in their personal letters. Very interesting. I hope further letters get tagged. (I.e. Spurgeon's)