Search bar will only search Bible
I'm trying to do a search of open resources.
I click the Search button near the top of the open resource window. The search bar opens. It says "Search All Text in All Passages" for..." I click where it says All Passages so I can change the resources I can search, but I am limited only to a Bible search. I have read that this search feature is supposed to allow me to select what type of resources it searches, but this is not allowing me the option. The only only is to search Bible (BHS).
Any guidance?
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You are opening the "search this resource" icon so you are limited to things relevant to that resource. You must open the search from the application bar to get the generic search.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Searching this resource is what I'm trying to do. But it somehow will only search the Bible, which is not this resource.
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Mike Durso said:
But it somehow will only search the Bible, which is not this resource.
No, it's not searching the Bible rather this dropdown is giving you the option of choosing a Bible passage range within which to search.
This option is only available for "versified resources" - i.e those which have a Bible index which, being a Bible commentary, it does.
As this is a commentary on Micah, this option is only really useful if you want to limit any search to a subset of Micah - so choosing Micah 1-2 at this point and running a search will just find results within the portion of the commentary discussing those first two chapters.
Does this help explain what you are seeing?
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I'm not sure I understand. Here's the situation... I copied and pasted a quote from one of two Micah commentaries, but forgot which one. I was trying to search each one for the quoted sentence so I can properly cite it. Can I not search this particular resource for a word or phrase to locate it in the work? That's all I'm trying to do.
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Mike Durso said:
I'm not sure I understand. Here's the situation... I copied and pasted a quote from one of two Micah commentaries, but forgot which one. I was trying to search each one for the quoted sentence so I can properly cite it. Can I not search this particular resource for a word or phrase to locate it in the work? That's all I'm trying to do.
Yes, you can. A commentary is a versified resource, which means it is indexed by bible reference. So just leave that Bible reference dropdown set to "All Passages" and it should search the entire commentary for whatever word or phrase you're looking for. That dropdown is there in case you wanted to restrict your search to just a portion of the work.
Another way to search in an open resource is to use the main Search command on the application toolbar, do a "Books" search, and select the title of that book in the leftmost dropdown in the Search tab.
The results won't necessarily be in page order within the book as they would with the other method, as they use Logos's internal relevance ranking system, which I don't fully understand. But you have more control over how you view the results, since you can see the full context in the book when you click on any one of the hits.
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Like so?
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Ok, I don't know what was going on earlier, but I have done this before and knew how to do it, but it was not working. I was doing the exact thing you're showing there and it was doing nothing but searching the Bible. For whatever reason it is working now.
I thought I was going crazy. Must have been a weird glitch. I knew I had done this many times before. I've been using Logos for 12 years [:(]
Thanks for bearing with me.
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