How To Search

Android/Samsung Note 9

What I want to do is search my current bible for a word or phrase.

I open a bible and click the vertical ellipsis. It offers a list of search locations, eg <Mark 14:7>. Since I have no other choice I pick one and it searches all resources for the verse specified. I can now (if I remember) click "all resources" then "bible" then clear the passage and then search for what I want.

Is there no natural way to simply search the bible?

Thanks,

MJT

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Martin Denham (Faithlife)

There are several ways to bring up Search. Touching the bottom right 'hamburger' menu and selecting search from there will open up a new empty Search view. The bottom right menu is the main app menu whereas the top right menu is specific to the currently displayed resource.

Martin Tohill

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1072325#Comment_1072325

Thanks for the explanation. As a user I find having two different routes to the same search engine providing two different search experiences confusing but I'll remember this for now.

Thanks again

MJT

Fr Devin Roza

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1072533#Comment_1072533

If I understand correctly, Martin wasn't asking how to open search, but how to search the Bible or resource you are currently using:

What I want to do is search my current bible for a word or phrase.

Even with the new redesign of the Moibile App search interface in v8.7 this is still way too difficult to do.

99% of the time I search on the Mobile App, I want to search my current resource/Bible. And yet, even with the recent redesign, that still implies a long process of taps (around 10) to achieve. On just about every other Mobile Reader app I know of you can achieve it with 2 taps (1 tap to select the text you want to search for, and 1 tap to search the current resource for that text).

Martin Tohill

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1072695#Comment_1072695

If I follow the instructions, click on the hamburger and then the search it then will default to search the bible and allow me to change the range of the search. If I forget and click the vertical ellipsis's then I get the general search. Certainly an awkward arrangement but will do for now.

I am not a robot.