Offline Search Syntax for iPad?

Daniel Lee
Daniel Lee Member Posts: 274 ✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

I know in the desktop version of Logos4 (Windows, for example), you can search using various terms like AND/OR/NOT/NEAR.  Is this functionality available in the iOS app at all? 

Specifically,  if I wanted to do a search for, say, "pastor OR elder OR deacon," what is the syntax? I tried, for example, "deacon OR elder", doing a Bible search of NAS.  It seems to work fine when I'm online in the Logos app, but when I'm offline, I get "no results matched your search."

On a related note, offline search appears to be strict, e.g. searching for "elder" only returns "elder", rather than also including passages with variations like "elders".

Any suggestions?  Is this a current limitation of the offline search mode of the app?

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  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 32,474

    Hi Daniel

    Specifically,  if I wanted to do a search for, say, "pastor OR elder OR deacon," what is the syntax? I tried, for example, "deacon OR elder", doing a Bible search of NAS.  It seems to work fine when I'm online in the Logos app, but when I'm offline, I get "no results matched your search."

    I get the same thing - I assume this is a limitation of offline search as you suggest. I think it is a fairly basic search capability without the enhanced capability such as use of Boolean operators we get with access to the Logos backend servers

    On a related note, offline search appears to be strict, e.g. searching for "elder" only returns "elder", rather than also including passages with variations like "elders".

    I would think that the same factors explain what you are seeing here

    So I do think this is a current limitation - whether or not it will change is something we would need the developers to comment on but I expect they would be reluctant to add too much complexity (and hence processing power requirements) to the offline search. But that is just me speculating!

    Graham

  • Rod Bergen
    Rod Bergen Member Posts: 251
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/268080#Comment_268080

    It appears to do one word searches fine offline.  Multiple word searches are effectively phrase searches.

    But it would be nice if you could do basic boolean searches offline.

    I would also be interested in knowing whether this is coming in the future.

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