Books Search Producing Bible Results

J.D. Matthews
J.D. Matthews Member Posts: 19 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I can't remove the "Passages" filter from my books search, so I am getting results from my bibles instead of my library. If I change the resource type, the results only return my resources with bible book indexes.

I don't know why passages would be an option when there is a dedicated bible search tab.

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  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 33,184

    I can't remove the "Passages" filter from my books search, so I am getting results from my bibles instead of my library

    I'm afraid I'm not following. 

    I'm assuming the Monograph shown in your screenshot is a collection of your monographs. When I do the same and run a search the only books I get results from are monographs, not Bibles

    Please post a screenshot showing your search string and the results showing Bibles

    I don't know why passages would be an option when there is a dedicated bible search tab.

    Having this filter here is helpful if you want to, for example, run a search against your commentaries but just restrict the search to what the commentaries say on a particular biblical passage

  • J.D. Matthews
    J.D. Matthews Member Posts: 19 ✭✭

    I did not use the "Group by" tabs, so it must have defaulted to a grouping that included biblically indexed resources.

    I wasn't looking for monographs, but I had selected monographs seeing if bibles would be excluded from the results. I will try clicking the group by tabs to get desired results.

    Thanks,

    JM

  • J.D. Matthews
    J.D. Matthews Member Posts: 19 ✭✭

    I found my issue.

    I begin typing and select from the suggestions. Instead of my search terms I had accepted search topics. Search topics must be keyed more heavily to my library's bibles than other available resources.

    So when I could not get any non-biblical results, I thought it was due to the passage filter. It appears topical searches are the problem.

    Thanks,

    JM

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,129

    So when I could not get any non-biblical results, I thought it was due to the passage filter.

    When you see "All Passages" it is not filtering your Search  i.e. it plays no part in the Search.

    If you Search a collection of Early Church Fathers you can filter it, for example, with the reference Irenaeus, Against Heresies

    Dave
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