Prioritizing isn't working.... Can anyone help?

It is very possible that I'm doing something wrong. But I have never noticed this before. I began noticing today that my fav Bible Dictionary (ABD) isn't the first listing in my search results. On a simple search like FAITH, I get all sorts of resources at the top of the search results including resources I do not have prioritized. ABD can be found if I scrolled way down the page. As you can see, NDBT (New Dictionary of Bible Theology) shows first but isn't even a prioritized resource.

Whats going on here?

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tom

As far as I know, search results does not take into account our prioritizing. It uses (IMHO) a worthless algorithm to sort the items.

T Gerold Castle

REALLY? Is this right? Not doubting you, Bro. Tom. Just exclaiming my surprise at this.

What, then, is the purpose of prioritizing again?

Darrell

It looks to me like it's searching a collection named "Dictionaries". Check collections and see if the search is returning the order of your references listed in a collection,,

T Gerold Castle

It looks to me like it's searching a collection named "Dictionaries". Check collections and see if the search is returning the order of your references listed in a collection,,

You cannot manually adjust the order of resources in a collection. The NBDT is not in my priority list but it is certainly part of the collection as that collection is just ALL of my type:encyclopedia resources.

I was under the impression that prioritization affected the search results. It is highly possible, and even more highly likely, that I was mistaken.

Again, what then is the purpose of prioritization and what are it's limitations?

Jerry M

Tom, if you were in Hebrews 11 for example and right clicked on faith and then clicked on selection in the popup, AYBD would show up on the left at the bottom. That is one advantage of prioritizing. Another would be in a Bible Word Study, where AYBD would show up as a hyperlink. I am not sure, but it seems that your conclusions about search are accurate. Ranked as a category in search isn't the same thing as prioritization.

Darrell

You could adjust the order of the references in a collection if you wanted to take the time to go to your library and add a numerical value to the beginning of the name of the reference, this would make the references take the order you give them by number. It would reorder the library listing and the collection listing.

It will search by your prioritization if you search the entire library and of course there you can drag the references to the order you want in the priority list.

Jerry M

To answer your question then, prioritizing affects the results in tools and guides. In search you can search AYBD by itself or in a collection or from a right click, but if it is a search from a collection then it doesn't necessarily show up first, except that it starts with the letter A, which affects searches dependent on title. Of course there could be more to this than I am seeing.

Jerry M

add a numerical value to the beginning of the name of the reference

This is a good tip Darrell.. I did this to NICNT in my library to get them to show in canonical order, also I have collections of commentaries in the collections tool which are ordered in canonical order this way.

tom

Again, what then is the purpose of prioritization and what are it's limitations?

Jerry already responded to this question. I always have my results listed by title. Listing them by ranked or by count is simply worthless to me.

T Gerold Castle

Again, what then is the purpose of prioritization and what are it's limitations?
Jerry already responded to this question. I always have my results listed by title. Listing them by ranked or by count is simply worthless to me.

This is what I've been doing in the mean time. I like this return just fine. Was just curious about the expected or unexpected behavior of the search with prioritization.

T Gerold Castle

You could adjust the order of the references in a collection if you wanted to take the time to go to your library and add a numerical value to the beginning of the name of the reference, this would make the references take the order you give them by number. It would reorder the library listing and the collection listing.

It will search by your prioritization if you search the entire library and of course there you can drag the references to the order you want in the priority list.

Would this change the results of the search as far as order? Tom's post above seems to indicate that the search uses a ranking algorithm (arbitrary or not).

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

Personally not know Rank algorithm for sorting results. In contrast, the definition section in Bible Word Study does show headword entries in prioritized order:

Keep Smiling [:)]