Verbum 9 Tip 9k: Collections

Collections Section

The Collections section searches against the entire library (default) or a specified collection for the guide’s key passage, topic, or preaching theme. Users can add multiple instances of the Collections section to any guide so they can search a variety of resource collections concurrently.

The section has several different views:

•     Articles — displays a compact list of matching article and resource titles.

•     Ranked — matches the article titles with brief contextual information and number of search hits. Items are ranked according to relevance.

•     By Resource — displays matching resources in a two-level list where the top level shows matching resources listed alphabetically by title, and the second level (accessed by clicking the resource title to expand its results) shows the results in each resource. The top level also shows the number of results found and the number of articles containing those results.

•     By Count — displays the same information as By Resourcebut resources are listed from the greatest number of hits to the least.^[1]

Collections

Add resource types (title:lexicon or author:lewis) in the Rule field to add books; manually add or remove items with the plus and minus fields.

Use Collections to group resources of a similar subject or purpose. Collections are a completely customizable grouping of resources, which can then be searched specifically in several places within Verbum.

Create a new collection

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1.   Click Tools > Library > Collections

2.   The tool opens to a new Unnamed Collection. If an existing collection is open, click New.

3.   Type a unique name for the collection, replacing “Unnamed Collection.” If the name matches another collection title, a (2) will be added to the end of the title.

4.   Check Show in parallel resources to make the collection available in Parallel resource sets.

5.   Click into the Rule field and enter book title(s) or subject(s).

•    Examples: kjv, esv, niv; or child, teen, parenting

•    Tag resources in the Library and use mytag:tagname to narrow the list of books by that tag.

•    Other examples: type:dictionary, title:lexicon, subject:archaeology. (For more examples, see Library Filter Fields.)

•    Full query syntax is supported, such as: AND, OR, and ANDNOT. Example: type:dictionary ANDNOT title:lexicon.

•    As the rule is typed, results will appear in the lower part of the Collections panel under = Resulting Collection. If the resulting collection is acceptable, the process is complete. If there are missing or unwanted resources, follow steps 6 and 7.

•    When new books are added to the Library, those that match the criteria of an existing collection will be automatically added to it.

6.   To remove an unwanted resource from the collection, drag it to the - Minus these resources section.

7.   To add a missing resource, open Library and drag the desired resource to the + Plus these resources section.

Modify a collection

From the Collections panel, click Open and choose a collection to modify.

•     Add or remove items from the Rule field;

•     Drag additional resources from Library to the + Plus section; or

•     Drag a resource from the - Minus  section to place it back in = Resulting Collection.

In addition to adding resources into the + Plus or - Minus section, users can also add entire collections:

1.   Click Open to view the list of collections.

2.   Drag the desired Collection from the drop-down list to the + Plus or - Minus section.

It might be helpful to mention that cloud resources do not show up in collections. The resources must be downloaded to your library to be useable in a collection.