L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #167 Simplify the creation of collections

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 posts: "Collections" Need A Ton Of Work - Logos Forums

If you are starting a collection from scratch, you can select multiple volumes in the library and then create a collection from the info panel

For instance, if you want to add all the volumes from the New International Commentary on the New Testament (NICNT) AND all the volumes from the Expositor's Bible Commentary (EBC), you can only filter for one or the other. 

Have you looked at using rules in Collections for this sort of thing? For example, the string NICNT OR EBC

Dragging is hard work. If you know about filtering Library, you can apply the same filter under "Start with books matching" e.g.

NICNT OR EBC 

which will ensure that any new titles for those series will automatically be included in the collection

Because these acronyms relate to the abbreviated title of each resource, you can be more precise by using

abbrev:NICNT OR abbrev:EBC

You can also address them via their series name  e.g. series:"New International Commentary on the Old and New Testament" which will involve both NICNT and NICOT volumes. And that can be shortened to series:"New International Commentary".

You can see other fields that can be used in this wiki article.