Collection of resources not in a series
I'm being dense or doing something silly. How do I create a collection of all resources without an entry in the series column?
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MJ. Smith said:
I'm being dense or doing something silly. How do I create a collection of all resources without an entry in the series column?
rating:>=0 ANDNOT series:(a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p ,q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z)
seems to work for me
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Thanks, that works. I'd been trying a < blank or null ...
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They really should introduce a NULL or BLANK value that we can use for collection rules. This is a clever workaround, but it's an indication of missing functionality.
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NB.Mick said:
rating:>=0 ANDNOT series:(a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p ,q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z)
Noticed one series that begins with a numeral (3E Ministries Study Guides) so filtering library by:
rating:>=0 -series:(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z)
leaves resources that are not in any series.
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NB.Mick said:
rating:>=0 ANDNOT series:(a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p ,q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z)
Noticed one series that begins with a numeral (3E Ministries Study Guides) so filtering library by:
rating:>=0 -series:(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z)
leaves resources that are not in any series.
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Thanks. I don't have a non-alpha series in my library, so this didn't occur to me.
As I'm not sitting at my L5 machine right now, and just in case Logos would include (or allow us to include in the editing of series fields currently in beta) other languages or symbols, can you check whether
rating:>=0 ANDNOT series:?*
works? the two wildcards should capture any series string of at least one arbitrary character.
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NB.Mick said:
rating:>=0 ANDNOT series:?*
Filter of:
rating:>=0 -series:?*
also works since - is equivalent to ANDNOT.
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Noticed one series that begins with a numeral (3E Ministries Study Guides) so filtering library by:
rating:>=0 -series:(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z)
It's not necessary to include the numerics. series:a finds series with a letter 'a' anywhere int the series name, not just at the beginning.
NB.Mick said:As I'm not sitting at my L5 machine right now, and just in case Logos would include (or allow us to include in the editing of series fields currently in beta) other languages or symbols, can you check whether
rating:>=0 ANDNOT series:?*
I would strongly discourage use of wildcards - they're very slow.
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Mark Barnes said:
It's not necessary to include the numerics. series:a finds series with a letter 'a' anywhere int the series name, not just at the beginning.
Mark,
you are nearly right. The rule series:a finds series with the letter 'a' at the beginning of any word in the series name, not only the first word (thus many that have a 'and' in them. You may try series:y versus series:library (which contains y) for a quick comparison.
Which means, KS4J and I (must admit, I own one volume from the 3E Ministries Study Guides series) overlooked that M, S and G will trigger the rule. A series name of '3E' alone, however, won't, which may give rise to the need for a more inclusive rule.
Since current beta allows editing the series field, I tested the '3E' case. I also found that series name 'Ä' (German umlaut of 'a') is treated the same as 'A' - even in the rule. I expect the same would be true for the scandinavian characters. However, series name '#' is not captured even by the wildcard rule, which is probably the case since Logos strips all punctuation characters (guess here: all non alphanumeric ones) from the string before it generates the lookup index. Which means, I can't even find this with series:# as a rule and would discourage such series names.
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Mark Barnes said:
I would strongly discourage use of wildcards - they're very slow.
On a laptop with SSD and 3rd Generation i7, found:
rating:>= 0 -series:?*
took twice as long as:
rating:>=0 -series:(a,b,c,d,e,h,l,m,o,r,s,t)
Bit over 3 circle animations with wildcard compared to 1.5 animations with enough letters to remove all series.
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Rosie Perera said:
They really should introduce a NULL or BLANK value that we can use for collection rules. This is a clever workaround, but it's an indication of missing functionality.
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