Guide search results- curious about process

Doc B

Today, I entered a pretty broad topic into the home page Go box: "sovereignty of God".

As expected, L7 generated two guides: the Topic Guide and the Sermon Starter Guide.

Here's where it gets curious. L7 automatically entered a search term (or title) for each. Into the TG, the term 'Sovereignty' was entered, and into the SSG, the term 'God: Sovereignty' was entered.

First, I'm curious how my entry, 'Sovereignty of God' was interpolated differently for the two guides.

Second, there was a significant difference (IMO) in the results. My TG had entries in the Sermons category, but my SSG had none. That is unexpected and a bit disheartening. I'm pretty sure the difference isn't totally due to the resources in my library.

What the metadata is going one?

(Screen shots below.)

Sean Boisen

These two guides operate from different (but related) information:

• Topic Guide supports well over 20k different concepts: so it's a very fine-grained set of categories.
• Factbook has mostly the same large set of concepts, though slightly different results, and some different sections (for example, Factbook on Baptism includes Senses and Cultural Concepts, but Topic Guide does not)
• Sermon Starter Guide has a much smaller, broader set of "preaching themes" (216 to be precise), which are very general categories, along with supporting Bible references

That being said, it seems like a bug that the sermons shown in Topic Guide don't also show up in Sermon Starter Guide (they should also be in Preaching Resources for Factbook on the same concept). We'll look into it.