Verbum 9 Tip 8f: Search functions: Faithlife Assistant continued

MJ. Smith
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edited November 21 in English Forum

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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.

P20-1 Interext


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.

P20-2 Luke


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.

P20-3 Genesis

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:

P20-4 Edomites

Results as generated manually for correct results:

P20-5 Corrected Edomites


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.

P20-6 FL Source


To Faithlife assistant: Browse verses in Romans

Response: Unit problem persists – manually set to verses;  select of Bible book works as expected.

P20-7 Romans


To Faithlife assistant: Browse verses on the topic of foreign trade

Response: Ongoing unit issue; selection of topic “foreign trade” worked as expected.

P20-8 Foreign Trade


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).

P20-9 Structural Metaphor



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