Adding Authors to Collections tool?

Liam

I'm trying to creat a "favorite authors" collection using the collections tool. My problem is that whenever I add a second author to the collections rule the resources below included for the first author dissapear and suddenly no resources are included in the collection.

I'm using the rule as follows "author:(john calvin) OR author:(martin luther) OR etc...." I have also tried AND instead of OR and get the same results. 

For some reason this is not working. Am I doing something wrong?

NB.Mick

Have you tried a list, such as author:(calvin, luther, ...) - these should work (and do in the denominational lists)

Liam

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/571918#Comment_571918

Excellent! Thank you Mick!

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/571939#Comment_571939

You're very welcome - it's my pleasure to help.

John

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/571939#Comment_571939

Liam,

This also works for dynamic collections. 

1> Create separate collections for each author

2> Create a "Favorite Authors" collection where you drag and drop each of the previous collections into the (+) Add area of this collection.

This way you can use each collection separately for other things and all your collections are automatically maintained as you add additional resources to your library.

Mark Barnes has some excellent training videos on how to do this:

http://www.logosbiblesoftwaretraining.com/other-videos/collections-and-prioritising/

See the 2 videos on Collections.

Hope this helps,

John

Todd Phillips

Liam Walsh said:

I'm using the rule as follows "author:(john calvin) OR author:(martin luther) OR etc...." I have also tried AND instead of OR and get the same results.

Regarding your rule above, phrases with spaces in them need to be quoted.  This works:

author:("john calvin")  OR  author:("martin luther")

or to use Mick's format:

author:("john calvin","martin luther")

You'll also find that last name first works as well (my choice of format):

author:("calvin, john","luther, martin")

If it's not quoted, then a space usually represents an implicit "AND" between the words. However, when there's an unquoted space used with a field operator (i.e., author:), the results seem unpredictable:

(This list makes no sense)

So always remember to quote your phrases.