Bug: Search Not Finding Obvious Results

Jordan Nash
Jordan Nash Member Posts: 27 ✭✭
edited March 29 in English Forum

How do I force Logos to index and search a book?

I searched for the word "immerse" which is obviously present in the Talmud, but precise search refuses to show any results from this book.

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Update: I restarted and now it works. I wish Logos would be more consistent in its behavior.

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  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 33,287

    How do I force Logos to index and search a book?

    Use the command reindex the jerusalem talmud and select the command from under the Tools section

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    And I would advise not tagging this as a bug as, hopefully, it is something we can fix in your installation.

  • Jordan Nash
    Jordan Nash Member Posts: 27 ✭✭

    It fixed itself after I made a minor setting change (specifically, I enabled logging) and it prompted to restart Logos.

    This is definitely a bug, as Logos search shouldn't say there are no results when there are.

  • Jordan Nash
    Jordan Nash Member Posts: 27 ✭✭
    edited March 29

    I used the incantation "reindex" in the "Passage or topic" box to trigger reindexing of all books.

    The bug, to be more precise, is that Logos should have known that the specified book was not indexed, and it should have automatically indexed it instead of returning a null search result.

  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 33,287

    The bug, to be more precise, is that Logos should have known that the specified book was not indexed, and it should have automatically indexed it instead of returning a null search result.

    Someone from the Logos team would need to comment definitively on this but I expect this would be seen as a change in functionality / feature request as opposed to a bug.

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,339
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1364625#Comment_1364625

    In the Command Box, the command to trigger re-indexing of all books starts with rebuild i.e. rebuild library index.
    reindex by itself might have provided the command for your book.

    But you say that "I restarted and now it works", and it appears from your screenshots that indexing was underway when you got results (see the warning message under the Search box). It is possible that it had just been downloaded as a new book (with other books) when you got no results and automatic indexing had commenced before you restarted Logos.

    Dave
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    Windows 11 & Android 13

  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 33,287

    and it appears from your screenshots that indexing was underway when you got results (see the warning message under the Search box)

    Thanks @Dave Hooton - I missed that message, probably due to use of dark mode

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