Verbum 9 Tip 8f: Search functions: Faithlife Assistant continued
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Note this post has more than it's share of error reports; consider them as a warning to use with caution, to check the results, and to report errors.
Faithlife assistant: Bible browser
With the Bible browser commands, we have a slightly different position. The facet trail in the Bible browser is identical to what would be created if a user had chosen the facets. The more interesting issue is whether or not Faithlife Assistant has been updated when new facets are added to the Bible Browser.
To Faithlife assistant: Browse pericopes in an intertextual citation
Response: The request for pericopes is ignored and verses selection retained; see BUG: Faithlife assistant fails to set unit correctly - Faithlife Forums (logos.com). The (intertext) relationship:citation is presence as expected.
To Faithlife assistant: Browse pericopes in the book of Luke
Response: The request for pericopes as the unit is ignored; I would assume the same error in all subsequent examples. I don’t recall an equivalent Search.
To Faithlife assistant: Browse pericopes in Genesis
Before running this command, I manually changed the unit to pericope.
Response: The request for pericopes as the unit is ignored; I would assume the same error in all subsequent examples. I don’t recall an equivalent Search.
To Faithlife assistant: Browse pericopes where Edomites speak
Response: The Faithlife assistant selects a qualified version of Edomites (Divided Kingdom) rather than the simple Edomites requested; see BUG: Faithlife assistance selects wrong facet - Faithlife Forums (logos.com). Then if fails to return the 2 results that are to be expected.
Results as generated by Faithlife Assistant:
Results as generated manually for correct results:
To Faithlife assistant: Browse pericopes where the figurative language source is person
Response: Expected unit problem occurs but the figurative language attribute of source with a value of person is handled correctly.
To Faithlife assistant: Browse verses in Romans
Response: Unit problem persists – manually set to verses; select of Bible book works as expected.
To Faithlife assistant: Browse verses on the topic of foreign trade
Response: Ongoing unit issue; selection of topic “foreign trade” worked as expected.
To Faithlife assistant: Browse verses where the figurative language category is structural metaphor
Response: Ongoing unit problem: correctly chose structural metaphor value for figurative language category but did not translate it in heading; see BUG: Attribute shown in code rather than normal title in Bible Browser - Faithlife Forums (logos.com).
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