Is there a way to associate personal books with topics?

Tom Vidal
Tom Vidal Member Posts: 270 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I would like my personal books to appear in relevant Topic guides.  Is there a way to tag them so that it can be done?.  I'm able to get them to surface in all the other guides where I need access to them through collections.

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 35,876

    Tom Vidal said:

    Is there a way to tag them so that it can be done?.

    It cannot be done. As a workaround, you should choose as headwords the topic names that you can get via Topic Guide, or that appear as Topics in the Factbook drop-down menu. The Personal Book should be type Encyclopedia.

    Run Topic Guide, open a resource from Topic section, and then use Parallel Resources to find you Personal Book. You should be able to see it directly in the Collections section.

    Dave
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    Windows 11 & Android 13

  • Tom Vidal
    Tom Vidal Member Posts: 270 ✭✭

    Thanks, Dave.  That workaround is a great solution for my needs here.  Thank you for this.

  • Tom Vidal
    Tom Vidal Member Posts: 270 ✭✭

    So I've tested this using the @headword tag, but It's not working for me.  The headword tag is working, because I can see it in the personal book after being built.  Here's an example.  The personal book I'm testing this with is on the subject of prayer.  I found a Topic Guide topic for Lord's Prayer.  So, I tagged the section on the Lord's Prayer in the personal book with [[@Headword: Lord's Prayer]].  When I run the guide, I do not see this in the collections neither can I get it to come up as a parallel resource. The books is configured as an encyclopedia.

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 35,876

    Tom Vidal said:

    I tagged the section on the Lord's Prayer in the personal book with [[@Headword: Lord's Prayer]].

    Make sure there is no space after the colon i.e. [[@Headword:Lord's Prayer]]

    That does work, but the PB does not appear in Collections section.

    Dave
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    Windows 11 & Android 13