BUG: Search All from Factbook Generates Illegitimate Keywords

Justin Gatlin

When I open the Factbook for Theodore of Heraclea and scroll down to Dig Deeper and click Search, it gives me

term:(biography:"Theodore of Heraclea" OR milestone:biography:"Theodore of Heraclea" OR headword:"Theodore of Heraclea" OR "Theodore of Heraclea")

That gives an error message

Unknown data type value:"Theodore of Heraclea"

So I have to manually remove the biography tags to run the search. I tried to reproduce with other people, and I noticed that there is nothing tagged biography for Virginia Chun-Nei Wong, but the search doesn't crash, it just gives some irrelevant results for other Factbook entries (like the state of Virginia). I am not sure why the search doesn't fail gracefully for Theodore, except that Logos doesn't know any more about him than I do.

41.0.416, Logos Max, Windows 11

Justin Gatlin

There is an equivalent(?) entry for Theodore of Heraclea (Greek Prelate), which also turns up no results but fails gracefully.

MJ. Smith

Thank you for a great illustration of the weakness of the All Search.

There are no results when there is an actual match (plus Factbook tags which aren't expected to show). It is as if it didn't convert to a precise search. However, if I switch from All to Book Search to get Precise, I get the error you reported.

Super good catch, Justin. I think the nonsense has to do with the duplicate entry for the man. However, the one with the qualification "(Greek Prelate)" uses the search argument term:(topic:"Theodore of Heraclea (Greek Prelate)" OR section:topic:"Theodore of Heraclea (Greek Prelate)" OR milestone:topic:"Theodore of Heraclea (Greek Prelate)" OR headword:"Theodore of Heraclea (Greek Prelate)" OR "Theodore of Heraclea (Greek Prelate)") fails to pick up results because the qualification is in Logos alone rather than the common name.

I wonder if this is related to the removal of the multiple forms of the name from the Factbook header?