"Not" Collections

Some time ago I purchased several of the Perseus collections, when they were free. They are wonderful resource sets, but wow there are a lot of them, and they tend to pop up when I'm trying to do unrelated things with Logos. "Hiding" them isn't really an option because there are thousands of them and apparently you can only "hide" books one at a time- not by a collection or search. And besides, there are times I want to use them.

So how can I create a collection that is everything except my Perseus items? I can create a Perseus collection, and I see I can drop a collection I have into the "minus these resources" part of creating a collection, but the part I don't know how to do is to start a collection that by default includes everything, so that I can then put the Perseus books in the "Minus these" section and have a "Not Perseus" collection.

Thanks!

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Stephen McCracken

Kay, I have been fairly new to L5 and I have found Mark Barnes videos really helpful with these questions and also giving you other tips before you have even thought of them. I suggest you take some time to watch through them and your question and others will be answered.

see http://www.logosbiblesoftwaretraining.com/ and the drop down from Tutorial Videos (esp Prioritizing)

Pastor Kay

Oh, I should have figured this out- you can just type e into the "start with anything that includes this" box and it'll bring up everything (or I think everything). And then put the Perseus collection in the "minus" section and there you go. Well, might as well leave this up if anybody has the same question.

fgh

how to do is to start a collection that by default includes everything

E g rating:<6.

To exclude Perseus: rating:<6 -perseus.

apparently you can only "hide" books one at a time

On Mac: select the books, Opt-right-click and choose Hide These Resources. Not sure what Opt would be on PC. Experiment.

However, you can only unhide one book at a time, so you should definitely not hide anything you want to use.

Timothy Brown

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/580128#Comment_580128

You can also use the collection rule: Rating:<6 -Publisher:Perseus .

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/580128#Comment_580128

you can just type e into the "start with anything that includes this" box and it'll bring up everything (or I think everything)

No, it won't. Most, but not everything.

A star should work, though. It used to be too slow to use, so I keep forgetting they've now optimized it.

Erwin Stull, Sr.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/580128#Comment_580128

Hi Kay;

I have created a collection named "Full Library:No Perseus" with the following rule "myrating:>=0 -publisher:perseus" (without the quotes). This will list my entire library excluding Perseus.

Todd Phillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/580131#Comment_580131

how to do is to start a collection that by default includes everything

E g rating:<6.

To exclude Perseus: rating:<6 -perseus.

Logos has optimized the wildcard character (*) so that it is fast now when matching whole words. So you can use this to exclude perseus:

* -perseus