How do I create a collection of all but Bibles?
I've tried -type:bible but that gives me Bibles.
I've tried NOT type:bible with the same result
I've tried NOT mytag:bible and -tag:bible without success. They give me a reduced list, but some have mytag bible.
I'm at a loss.
Have a great day,
jmac
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This should work:
* -type:bibleThe minus and NOT ANDNOT operators (which are equivalent) can only take away results, so you first need some results for them to take away from. Using the asterisk indicates all books from which you then take away the Bibles.
Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer
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Try
* ANDNOT type:bible
And there is a helpful list of sample collection definitions at https://wiki.logos.com/Example_Collections
It suggested rating:<=5 ANDNOT type:bible which gives the same results.
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Your intuition is logical, but the NOT operator in the library is spelled ANDNOT, and it has to have a left side (results to filter) and a right side (what to filter out). So you want something like
title:* ANDNOT type:bibleMinus is a synonym for ANDNOT, so you could use just title:* -type:bible.
Either way, that starts with every book that has a title, and then removes Bibles from the result set.
There's more help here. I hope that gets you going!
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Oh, Graham you beat me to it. And Andrew, too!
(If anyone is wondering why I added the title field, it's because I have an aversion to using naked * in Library queries, simply because it's searching all the book metadata. The results are the same.)0 -
Or, being a minimalist (sometimes) : * -type:Bible
There is the metadata thing, but on the run, its almost instant for me.0 -
Andrew Batishko said:
This should work:
* -type:bibleThe minus and NOT ANDNOT operators (which are equivalent) can only take away results, so you first need some results for them to take away from. Using the asterisk indicates all books from which you then take away the Bibles.
Thanks!
Have a great day,
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Eli Evans (Faithlife) said:
I have an aversion to using naked * in Library queries, simply because it's searching all the book metadata.
It maybe did that about ten years ago... it's since been optimised to instantly return a list of all records with no searching. (So has title:* because all books have a title.) So go ahead and use a naked * in the Library Catalog without hesitation.
(NOTE: This is for a * search in the Library panel; a * search within your books in the Search Panel is something quite different...)
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Have a great day,
jmac0 -
