Bible Book Guides

This is a really great new feature, and works well with some books of the Bible (like the book of Romans in the featured video), but I cannot figure out the correct search terms in Factbook for many books (e.g. 1 John, Acts, 2 Peter, etc). Anyone get the Bible Book Guides to work for these types of books?

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Andrew Batishko

Try: First Epistle of John, Book of Acts, Second Epistle of Peter.

Mary-Ellen

"Epistle to the Philippians" turns up as a suggestion when I type in just "Philippians." It seems like "Book of Acts" could be a suggestion when I enter "Acts," and something similar for common short names for all Bible books.

John Fidel

When in doubt, open the Topic Guide and then use the link to Factbook from there. The Topic Guide is much better at making suggestions at this point.

toughski

Try: First Epistle of John, Book of Acts, Second Epistle of Peter.

Andrew, this is verbose and not very intuitive, so could you provide a full list of Factbook-approved Bible Book names. Also, how about training Factbook to recognize reftagger-type abbreviations for bible books. Just a suggestion. [:)]

Lee

I agree Please give us a list full list of approved Bible Book Names..

toughski | Forum Activity | Replied: Tue, Nov 18 2014 8:18 AM

Andrew Batishko (Faithlife):

Try: First Epistle of John, Book of Acts, Second Epistle of Peter. Andrew, this is verbose and not very intuitive, so could you provide a full list of Factbook-approved Bible Book names. Also, how about training Factbook to recognize reftagger-type abbreviations for bible books. Just a suggestion.

Andrew Batishko

Andrew, this is verbose and not very intuitive, so could you provide a full list of Factbook-approved Bible Book names. Also, how about training Factbook to recognize reftagger-type abbreviations for bible books. Just a suggestion.

I don't know the list, but I do know there are some changes being made to make these easier to find. I don't know when those changes will be ready, but I hope it will be soon.

You will have better luck finding the book entries if you prefix the book name with: "<Topic ". This limits the suggestions to only topics, and significantly raises the cap on the number of topics that can be displayed. This will make it easier to find the Bible Book items. So, type something like: <Topic Peter

toughski

You will have better luck finding the book entries if you prefix the book name with: "<Topic ". This limits the suggestions to only topics, and significantly raises the cap on the number of topics that can be displayed. This will make it easier to find the Bible Book items. So, type something like: <Topic Peter

great suggestion! thanks.

toughski

This will make it easier to find the Bible Book items. So, type something like: <Topic Peter

I tried this and actually got drowned by other topics:

1 Peter was entry 39!

2 Peter 48th on the list.

Again, I stand by my assessment that this is neither intuitive nor easy

JohnB

When in doubt, open the Topic Guide and then use the link to Factbook from there. The Topic Guide is much better at making suggestions at this point.

Anyone get the Bible Book Guides to work for these types of books?

I agree but the information and layout is NOT the same as using Factbook and nothing like as good in my opinion for this purpose. Also it is not necessarily a good help to what will work in Factbook. As an example for Deuteronomy it give Book of Deuteronomy which as of this evening does not work in Factbook. Factbook shows a purpose designed layout specifically for an introduction to the bible book.- a bit like a special guide.

Angela Murashov

but I cannot figure out the correct search terms in Factbook for many books (e.g. 1 John, Acts, 2 Peter, etc). Anyone get the Bible Book Guides to work for these types of books?

This has been fixed in 6.0b Beta 1.

Bible Book Guides will now appear when the Bible reference is entered. No longer requires specific ‘First Epistle to’ or ‘Gospel of’ to choose Biblical Book Guides.

but I cannot figure out the correct search terms in Factbook for many books (e.g. 1 John, Acts, 2 Peter, etc). Anyone get the Bible Book Guides to work for these types of books?

This has been fixed in 6.0b Beta 1.

Bible Book Guides will now appear when the Bible reference is entered. No longer requires specific ‘First Epistle to’ or ‘Gospel of’ to choose Biblical Book Guides.

Nice! I look forward to it making it out of Beta soon.

Rosie Perera

Wow, this is a great new feature! I hadn't discovered it yet. Here's further discussion of the feature for others who like me are hearing about it for the first time: https://community.logos.com/forums/t/92714.aspx

Graham Criddle

but I cannot figure out the correct search terms in Factbook for many books (e.g. 1 John, Acts, 2 Peter, etc). Anyone get the Bible Book Guides to work for these types of books?

This has been fixed in 6.0b Beta 1.

Thanks for fixing this - really helpful

Dylan Rondeau

but I cannot figure out the correct search terms in Factbook for many books (e.g. 1 John, Acts, 2 Peter, etc). Anyone get the Bible Book Guides to work for these types of books?

This has been fixed in 6.0b Beta 1.

Bible Book Guides will now appear when the Bible reference is entered. No longer requires specific ‘First Epistle to’ or ‘Gospel of’ to choose Biblical Book Guides.

Nice! I look forward to it making it out of Beta soon.

6.0b has just shipped to stable users.