Factbook and Search Helps

I don't know if this is a good idea or suggestion or just unreasonable or what. I love the Factbook. I would love it even more if it would help me build searches.

For example, I would like it to help me with all these labels, sections, etc. If I do a Facebook search for, say, benedictions or prayers, a section on search syntax would be great. I usually go to a place in the Bible that has an example of what I'm looking for and then grab the search from the context menu. But I think going through the Factbook would be another helpful avenue.

On a related note, are there plans to develop a different search builder? Something even better than search templates?

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Andrew Batishko

There's a search link at the bottom of the See Also section which should give you what you are looking for. Here's the example from "Benediction":

<Topic Benediction>, {Section <Topic Benediction>}, {Milestone <Topic Benediction>}, {Headword Benediction}, {Headword Benedictions}, Benediction, Benedictions

Karl Fritz Jr.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1159008#Comment_1159008

Hi Andrew, that's somewhat helpful, but it's not helpful in constructing the primary search I have in mind. The {Label Benediction} search isn't there, along with all the possible aspects. So, when I want help with building a search along these lines...

{Label Benediction WHERE Addressee ~ <Person Moses> AND Speaker ~ <Person God> AND Title ~ <Topic God Offers a Benediction to Moses>}

...I have to find an example in the Bible first.

I'm not sure if that exhausts the aspects to the Label. I know I can track down the documentation somewhere, but even that isn't to be found in the initial Factbook entry. So, I was envisioning a section that, perhaps, extracts search helps from documentation. Or better yet, what I just mentioned along with a more granular search feature like the one you showed me, rather than throwing everything and the kitchen sink at the Everything search.

I guess in the end, I'm looking for a more exhaustive search template feature that covers all the other great data features in Logos.

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1159106#Comment_1159106

Ah, I understand now what you are pointing out. You are correct that the search you are interested in is not exposed through Factbook.

Currently the quickest way to get to that is as follows:

Go to the Factbook page for a benediction you are interested in, such as "God Offers a Benediction to Moses": https://ref.ly/logos4/Factbook?ref=bk.%25godMoses_Benediction
Click the verse in the Key Passages section to open your Bible to the verse. (Or click a verse link in the Key Article section.)
Right click in the verse to get to the Label

Alternatively

Open to anywhere in the All the Benedictions in the Bible resource and navigate to a passage. (By the way, this is where the label search documentation exists.)
Right click in the verse to get to the Label

On a related note, are there plans to develop a different search builder? Something even better than search templates?

"Of making many plans there is no end" -- a rough paraphrase of Ec 12:12.

There are always plans. Unfortunately, there is no timeline for any specific changes. I recommend using https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-desktop-app to provide and vote on suggestions. For example, this might match up well with what you are requesting: https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/search-templates-for-labels

Karl Fritz Jr.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1159116#Comment_1159116

For example, this might match up well with what you are requesting: https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/search-templates-for-labels

Yes, that's the perfect Feedback suggestion. Thanks for pointing that out. Got my vote.

Thanks, Andrew.

SineNomine

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1159117#Comment_1159117

For example, this might match up well with what you are requesting: https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/search-templates-for-labels

Yes, that's the perfect Feedback suggestion. Thanks for pointing that out. Got my vote.

You might also be interested in https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-resource-updates/posts/search-documentation-in-help and/or https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-resource-updates/posts/update-help-documentation-regularly, but that could just be wishful thinking on my part.

Karl Fritz Jr.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1159231#Comment_1159231

You might also be interested in https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-resource-updates/posts/search-documentation-in-help and/or https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-resource-updates/posts/update-help-documentation-regularly, but that could just be wishful thinking on my part.

Definitely interested. Voted.