Searching for dictionary articles

Chuck Forsythe

Greetings all:

I have a collection of all my dictionaries and encyclopedias.

How do I search for the "main" article of APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE in that collection?

I do not want to search for every article that contains the words "APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE".

Thank you !

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Graham Criddle

How do I search for the "main" article of APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE in that collection?

Try clicking the All Text link and select Heading from within the Search Fields section of the dropdown.

The search will now only return results from those resources that have your selected phrase in the heading.

Note, some - older - resources don't have that tagging so some people choose to include the Large Text search field as well.

Chuck Forsythe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201605#Comment_1201605

Thank you Graham:

I clearly am doing something wrong.

When I add apocalyptic literature to the sear field I get these results (which lead Logos to say I have nothing that matches in the Dictionary-Encyclopedia collection:

Chuck Forsythe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201610#Comment_1201610

Chuck Forsythe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201610#Comment_1201610

Chuck Forsythe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201610#Comment_1201610

I guess pasting an image in the forums does not work.

Chuck Forsythe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201610#Comment_1201610

Well,

I guess someone is going to to have to teach me how to add an image to a forum post. Neither pasting it in the post or adding it as an attachment seemed to work.

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201616#Comment_1201616

I guess someone is going to to have to teach me how to add an image to a forum post. Neither pasting it in the post or adding it as an attachment seemed to work.

Does this help? https://wiki.logos.com/Screenshot#Attaching_a_Screenshot

May need to make a page with pictures, though.

Chuck Forsythe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201618#Comment_1201618

Thank you Mick

When I think I am following Graham's instructions, this is the menu I get. Then when I select Apocalyptic literature, Logos does not find anything in my library (despite owning 25 plus dictionaries and encyclopedias. :

Clearly I am doing something wrong, but do not know what.

Roy

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201625#Comment_1201625

Two things.

First in your screen shot have you pressed ENTER yet?

The drop down displayed is a list of suggestions to further refine your search, but it is not your search results.

In case you did not know, ignore the drop down and press enter.

Second, if you have already done the above, what does your collection rule look like?

I created one as type:encyclopedia OR title:dictionary.

My apologies if you already know this, but I did not want to simply assume anything.

EDIT: p.s. You might want to add quotation marks around your search string "Apocalyptic literature".

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201625#Comment_1201625

When I think I am following Graham's instructions, this is the menu I get.

Hm. I just used "type:enc" as the ad-hoc collection to look into, which looks like this:

Logos does not find anything in my library

Do you by chance have "match case" turned on?

Roger Pitot

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201628#Comment_1201628

I did what Graham said (heading text) and in <encyclopedia> I get 82 results and in my Bible Dictionaries collection I got 66 results).

So it does work!

Chuck Forsythe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201673#Comment_1201673

Thank you all for your help. My problem is solved by your kindness,

Turns out, I was confused by the drop down menu. I assumed I needed to select "topic" to run the search. Wrong assumption. I only need to wade through the 80+ hits now.

BTW, I did not have match case turned on.

Chuck

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201737#Comment_1201737

Thank you all for your help. My problem is solved

Good to hear!