PBB Links from Resource to Other Reference Resources

Greetings all —

I'm trying to refine my PBB version of The Golden Legend, and (as you might expect) it superabounds with points of reference that would helpfully be clarified with links out to various dictionaries, encyclopedias, and so on. I've figured out how to incorporate links to the biblical text (ones that don't show up in the body of the resource), so that's good; and I believe I can build in links to specific resources that I have (Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is a good example), but not how to trigger a general look-up for "Augustine of Hippo" or "Gregory the Great".

So if that's not functionally possible, it's a shame but I can cope. But I'd think that it oughtn't to be that hard; am I missing something?

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Rosie Perera

how to trigger a general look-up for "Augustine of Hippo" or "Gregory the Great"

I'm not sure if it's possible to do that. A user could select "Augustine of Hippo" and right-click on it, then choose "Lookup." As a PB author, you could indicate "this might be a good phrase to look up" by putting that phrase in bold or something. But it would be even better if you could make it into a link so all the user has to do is click on it to trigger a lookup. Maybe there's some way, but I'm not aware of it.

Don Awalt

how to trigger a general look-up for "Augustine of Hippo" or "Gregory the Great".

I am not sure you can do a general lookup, but you can do a specific lookup. You could do a Basic search for any interesting terms in your library, searching only Heading Text, and then copy the URL and use the hyperlink in your personal book. Clicking on it would only go to that particular book, not to any book with that head word. For example, Lexham Bible Dictionary has "Augustine of Hippo" as a head word, so you could imbed

logosres:lbd;ref=biblio.at$3DInterpretation,$2520History$2520of$7Cau$3DTalbert,$2520Andrew$2520R.;off=18460

anywhere in your text that you wanted to, and clicking on it in your personal book will go right there.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

... , but not how to trigger a general look-up for "Augustine of Hippo" or "Gregory the Great".

Thankful can copy search location to URL:

=> logos4:Search;kind=Basic;q=$22Augustine_of_Hippo$22;match=stem

=> logos4:Search;kind=Basic;q=$22Gregory_the_Great$22;match=stem

Keep Smiling [:)]

A. K. M. Adam

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/588827#Comment_588827

I'm sorry to be thick, but I'm not quite sure what to make of this. Just how would I go about inserting this sort of link into the resource text?

If this were the text in question, I'd put double brackets, then continue with the text such as Augustine of Hippo, then two angle brackets/greater than signs, then {logos4:Search;kind=Basic;q=$22Augustine_of_Hippo$22;match=stem} then close the double brackets?

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/588924#Comment_588924

It's the same syntax as a resource.

A. K. M. Adam

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/588931#Comment_588931

Excellent! I gave it a try, and this does just what I had hoped. It's a bit cumbersome, but the results are right; thank you very much.