Alternate Title Field: What is it good for?

SineNomine
SineNomine Member Posts: 7,043
edited November 21 in English Forum

In Verbum/Logos 9, I find an "alternate title" field. I imagine that it's been there forever, but....

What is the alternate title field for, i.e., what is it good for? The present Help documentation is lacking.

So far all I've figured out is that the non-command Open <alternate title> is useless.

(Technically, I suppose I've also noticed that many alternate titles are identical to the default title, that some have typos in them, and that I can't edit them.)

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,143

    Bug report that may need to be a suggestion to fix: BUG 5.1: Using Alternate Title in the Command box - Faithlife Forums (logos.com)

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    From http://wiki.logos.com/Collections

    Filterable fields

    you’ll notice things like title: and type: and you might be looking for the other fields you can use to filter your collection. The various fields can be found by opening your library, setting it to table view (click on “view” to alternate views) and right clicking on the columns’ headers. Most of these fields can be used to filter your collection. Some are not exact matches. For instance to filter by My Tags you must use mytags:. Below is a list of the fields and their corresponding search format.

    Image – Not usable Type – type: Title – title: Author – author: My Tags – mytag: Rating – rating: Abbreviated Title – abbrev: Alternate Title – alttitle: Tags – tag: Electronic Publication Date – epubdate: Languages – lang: Publication Date – pubdate: Publisher – publisher: Series – series: Subjects – subject:

    This seems to be used inconsistently - providing alternative common references for a scholar, grouping a book split into multiple parts, grouping commentaries .... I think we need a definition from FL then a concerted effort to clean it up. If it groups split books than it solves a problem I've been suggesting a similar fix to for years.

    See Fix Alternative Title for Libreria Editrice Vaticana publications | Faithlife Feedback as a start to cleanup.

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 35,682

    So far all I've figured out is that the non-command Open <alternate title> is useless.

    And I think it should stay that way (as per the referenced forum thread)

    I've never found a use for it, but alttitle: does work.

    Dave
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  • SineNomine
    SineNomine Member Posts: 7,043
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1162905#Comment_1162905

    So far all I've figured out is that the non-command Open <alternate title> is useless.

    And I think it should stay that way (as per the referenced forum thread)

    I just want to know what the Alternate Title field is actually for. It doesn't seem to do anything. What does the program actually do with it? What can I do with it, other than filter for it in the Library for no discernible reason? Why do most resources not have one? Why can't I change it?

    (Meanwhile the Abbreviated Series field, which does do something, is invisible in the Library panel.)

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