Verbum Tip 3b: Personal name everything search results part 2

MJ. Smith
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edited November 2024 in English Forum

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Your documents section

From Verbum Help:

[quote]Your Documents

Lists results from documents created in Verbum.[1]

Your Documents includes most user created content in Verbum. Exceptions include:

  • Personal books which appear in the Your Personal Books section.
  • Community tags which appear in the Community Tags section.
  • Ask the author which does not appear in any search
  • Charts which are not persistent
  • Highlighting palette which does not appear in the everything search.

Documents that are included in Your Documents include:

  • Bibliography                      Documents à Bibliography
  • Canvas                                Tools à Canvas
  • Clippings                             Documents à Clippings
  • Handout                             (deprecated legacy)
  • Homily                                Tools à Homily Manager, Homily Builder
  • Morph Query                    Search à Morphology Search
  • Notebook                           Tools à Notes
  • Passage List                       Documents à Passage List
  • Prayer List                          Documents à Prayer List
  • Reading Plan                     Documents à Reading Plan
  • Resource Collection        Tools à Collections
  • Sentence Diagram           Documents à Sentence Diagram
  • Syntax Search                    Search à Syntax Search
  • Visual Filter                        Documents à Visual Filter
  • Word Find Puzzle             Documents à Word Find Puzzle
  • Word List                           Documents à Word List

 

In order to get results, I am changing the search argument to Jesus.

The results are available in two sequences:

  • By title (alphabetic)
  • Alphabetic by title with document type

The results appear in one of two formats:

  • Format 1: the entry can be expanded and collapsed. In expanded mode, it shows a title and an excerpt in which the results are highlighted. Mouse-over on a highlighted result opens a preview; clicking opens the resource to that position.
  • Format 2: the entry has no expand/collapse option nor preview. Clicking on the document name opens it.

One may also view the results in document type sequence. Results under the document type behave as in the By Title view.

Your personal books section

From Verbum Help:

[quote]Personal Books

Lists results from user-created Personal Books.[2]

Note I changed the search argument from <Person Abraham> to “Abraham” in order to get results.

The results from resources built by the Personal Book Builder are similar to the Verbum supplied resources with little or no Faithlife coding. The behavior of the results is identical to that in our numerous examples of basic and Bible searches.

Faithlife sermons section

From Verbum Help:

[quote]Faithlife Sermons

Lists community-created sermons uploaded to Sermons.Faithlife.com that are related to the search term. Click Search all sermons at Sermons.Faithlife.com to open a browser to additional sermon results from Sermons.Faithlife.com. [3]

This section searches outside your library, searching the Faithlife web site Sermons.Faithlife.com for relevant sermons. Options allow you to search all sermons, sermons of people you are following, or only your own uploaded/published sermons.

One can see the same results by executing the “Search all sermons at Sermons.Faithlife.com” at the bottom of the section.

Notice that Abraham (and related forms e.g. Abrahamic) are shown in bold in the extract of the text. Occurrences of Abraham in the title and in the topic list lack special marking.

Faithlife Sermons will be discussed in detail when the Homily Manager/Homily Builder is discussed.

Faithlife media section

For Help see: Use Faithlife Stock Media

Full access to FaithlifeMedia is a separate subscription.

On mouse-over, a title or Bible reference is given. A click takes one to the web site:

Again, a discussion of the media site is reserved for the discussion of building lessons in the homily builder.

Topic section

From Verbum Help:

[quote]Topic

Lists articles that discuss the search term that appears under Look it up. A search suggestion, and links to re-run the search as a Topic Guide and Sermon Starter Guide appear above the Look it up options.[4]

This section is often omitted from the results. I switched the search argument to the text argument “Abraham” to obtain results.

  • On mouse-over article title or resource, a standard preview window opens.
  • On click the resource is opened to the article shown.
  • One can control the order of the list through prioritizing the resources.


[1] Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).

[2] Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).

[3] Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).

[4] Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).

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