L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #147 Label search: any role

MJ. Smith

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10+ Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired by the forum post: n/a

Using the Miracles label as an example, if I want to know all miracles in which Elijah the prophet plays a part, I can start by checking what attributes of the label apply to people and come up with the following searches:

• miracle:(agent:person:"Elijah (prophet)")
• miracle:(patient:person:"Elijah (prophet)")
• miracle:(beneficiary:person:"Elijah (prophet)")
• miracle:(audience:person:"Elijah (prophet)")

Or I can get the same result by not specifying the attribute and simply using "any".

• miracle:(any:person:"Elijah (prophet)")

This works for any label, attribute, and search term. Annoyingly, I can't get the results by pericope rather than verse.

To carry this to the extreme, the application generated search argument of miracle:(agent:person:"Elijah (prophet)" AND patient:place:Israel AND title:topic:"The Three-Year Drought" AND type:Judgment) can simplified to miracle:(any:(person:"Elijah (prophet)" AND  place:Israel AND topic:"The Three-Year Drought" AND Judgment)) and still generate the same results. This is not advised because the second search is much broader than the first asking for the value in any attribute but is handy when you are simply looking for the presence of something in a label.