Arranging resource in my Libary

If you want to create collections based on the various types in the Logos Library, use this syntax in the collections. Use a new collection for each line of syntax.

type:"Bible Commentary"
type:Encyclopedia
type:"Bible Notes"
type:Grammar

Plus any of the other types listed in steve's picture.

Tes said:

Hi, Kevin and Steve, where do I type them?

You can test a filter like "Type:Bible" by typing it into the "Find" field when you're looking at your library. If you want to create a collection with that filter, select "Collections" under the "Tools" menu. If the collection that comes up is named "Unnamed Collection", you can type in a new name to rename the collection. Then type your filter into the field below "Start with resources matching:". That will give you the same set of resources in that collection (at least as a starting point) as you would have seen in your library when using the same filter.

Hope this helps,

Donnie

Thank You! This is an excellent explanation for amateurs like me still getting to grips with the program after a year. [Y]

Tes said:

I want to arrange all my resources according to what you have done it,it would be very helpful for me

Tes,

Before you start doing your whole library, first do the example i have shown when you get time. Then after you have done the example, post a screen shot of the Passage Guide showing the Collection bar expanded here in this post so i can see that you got it right. Then we can proceed in helping you make more collections.

Tes said:

I have tried to click to expand my newly created collection ,but it is dead,have made any wrong?

Hi Tes, I'm not Steve, but I noticed that you have put your "Bible dictionaries" collection in a Commentaries section instead of a Collections section in your passage guide. Bible dictionaries are not commentaries, so they are not indexed by Bible references, so the way you did it will not work. Go reread that part of Steve's instructions, as he explains how to do it right.

Tes,

Now for helping you organize more of your library....

i do not have a large library like you, so i cannot tell you exactly how to create your collections. But there are other users which have large libraries and have added collection info on the wiki. So now let's learn how to use the collection info that others have contributed.

This section will describe how collection info is shown in the Example Collection wiki

1.  This is a screen shot of the Example Collections wiki page open in my browser.
      a.  The link to open this wiki page is Example Collections

2.  Notice the bold text above bulleted areas. This is the Collection name the user had for their collection.

3.  The Rule shows the rule that the user had in their rule box.

4.  The Manually Included Items shows books that they added in the Collection tool. You would do this when your rule does not find a book, but you want it added to your collection manually.

          a.  To add these books into your collection, you would open your Library next to the collection tool.

          b.  Then locate the book that you wanted to manually add to your collection. Then drag it to your collection and drop it in the box + Plus these resources and drop it there

            c.  After you drop the book, Logos4 shows it in the Plus these resources box and adds it to your collection.

5.  The Manually Excluded these items shows what the books that the rules included in the collection, but the user did not want them in their collection.

                   a.  Locate the book in your collection that you want to manually remove.
                        Then grab it with your mouse and drag it to the Minus these resources box and drop it there.

             b.  Notice that Logos4 removed that book from your collection and it shows up in the Minus these resources box.

6.  The Library size shows you how many resources that the user had in their Library.

            a.  There are comments at the top of the wiki page that describes why these are shown.

            b.  This is the final number of books in this Collection.

Now let's build a new collection from information on the wiki....

1.  In the wiki page of your browser, drag your mouse over the title Bible Backgrounds to select it.

           a.  Right click on the selected text, in the pop-up menu click on Copy.

2.  Now in your collection tool in Logos4, click on New to create a new collection.

        a.  Then right in the name box

        b.  In the pop-up menu click on Paste.

3.  Now in the wiki in the browser, use your mouse to drag over the Rule to select it (But NOT the word Rule: ).

        a.  Then right click on the selected text.

        b.  Then in the pop-up menu click on Copy.

4.  Now in the Logos4 collection tool, right click in the Rule box.

        a.  In the pop-up menu click on Paste.

5.  Now you have a new collection !

Now you can use this collection in your Passage Guide like you did in my earlier example.

Now that you know how to create collections found in the wiki page Example Collections, you can decide which collection that might be useful to you. I would not expect every collection to be useful to you. But there are several collections which will help you inside your Passage Guide.

Tes said:

Should I add them all In " collections/All Resources? If so I have tried to add "Bibles" which I have created,but it did not show up.

Tes, it does not make sense to add a Bibles collection to a Passage Guide. The Passage Guide is for generating a report of all the resources you have which discuss a particular Bible passage. Of course all your Bibles contain that passage you are studying, but they do not discuss it, nor do they have references to it. Whereas other books will refer to Bible passages with references like "John 3:16," you will not see such Scripture reference text within a Bible anywhere.

Could you tell us what you are trying to do by including your Bibles collection in a Passage Guide? Are you trying to make it show you that reference in all the different Bible versions? You can't do that within a Passage Guide, but there are other ways to do it. For a quick method, press F7 when you have a Bible open to a given verse, and it will show you that verse in all your top Bibles. For more control (passage ranges and unlimited number of versions), use the Text Comparison tool.

Tes said:

I want to add To my collection "hard saying  of the bible" and "figurative speech of the bible" could you tell me how and to which collection I have to add,

i don't have the book "hard sayings of the Bible". But you could create a new collection or add the books manually to a collection that you think they should be in.

1.   Open your Library next to the collection tool window. Then locate the book in your Library.

2.  In the collection tool window click on New.

3.  Then name your new collection

   Or if you want to add it to an existing Collection, click on Open and open that collection (in this case you would skip steps 2 & 3)

4.  In the Library window use your mouse to click and drag the title of the book to Plus these resources box in the collection tool window and drop it there.

5.  Now notice that Logos4 shows your book title in the Plus these resources box of the collection window. Also notice that your book appears in your collection list in the collection window.

Repeat step 4 for other books that you want to manually add to your collection.

Tes said:

but still  I have two passage guides,the one on the left side is the new one ,which I have created,and the one on the right side is ,perhaps the standart passage guide of logos 4.

There is your problem. You have 2 copies of your Passage Guide open to the same scripture reference. Unfortunately Logos4 does not permit naming saved Passage Guides.

The next step in using a Passage Guide where you want specific Collections (or other bars that you have added) to show up each time you pull up a Passage Guide is to build a Custom Passage Guide. Once that you build a Custom Passage Guide you can open it directly from the Guides menu.

To learn how to build a Custom Passage Guide view this wiki page: Customizing the Passage and Exegetical Guides

Tes said:My fear is if I delete the right one ,then I am not going to be able to get it back again,

If you build a Custom Passage Guide, then you can always get it back. When you open your Custom Passage Guide, you would just need to type into the reference box the scripture passage you used the last time you were in the guide.

EDIT: after zooming on your image in the previous post, i see that your scripture references are not the same. Logos4 will save guides on exact scripture references. So Logos4 has saved your guides on both of your scripture references. Even though they overlap, they are not the same scripture reference.

One way to get back to a specific saved guide is to add your Passage Guide (while viewing your exact scripture reference) to your Favorites and renaming it in your favorites so that you can find it again.

1.  With your mouse grab and drag your Passage Guide ....
     (while you are dragging your Passage Guide, the Passage Guide window will temporarily disappear because Logos4 is not sure if you are just rearranging your layout, but after you drop it in step 2 your guide will reappear)

2.  To your Favorites tool window and drop it there.

     a. After you drop it there you will probably want to rename it so that you can easily find it again.

     b. Then in the future when you want to open it, just click on it in your favorites.

Tes said:

I am having problem to build custom passage,The collection I have created have different headings than ,what are listed in the standard list.I am a bit confused .

Give me some time and i will add a new wiki page for an example on building a new Custom Passage Guide. When i get it done i will post a link to it here.

EDIT: the new wiki is: Building a Custom Guide Example

Tes said:

steve clark said:

Give me some time and i will add a new wiki page for an example on building a new Custom Passage Guide. When i get it done i will post a link to it here.

Ok.thank you steve.

the new wiki is: Building a Custom Guide Example

Tes said:

I have seen a good list in your Passage guide .How did you create the resources you have listed them in the custom bible study guides? 

Collection Title:  All Bibles
Collection Rule:  type:Bible ANDNOT (title:targum)
Use: Mostly for searching

Collection Title:  Bible Background

Collection Rule:  the same as on Example Commentaries wiki page
Use: Mostly in Passage Guide

Collection Title:  Bible Dictionaries

Collection Rule:  type:encyclopedia AND subject:bible
Use: Mostly in Passage Guide

Collection Title:  Bibliography

Collection Rule:  rating:>=0

Use: For printing a list of all my books

Collection Title:  Comm NT

Collection Rule:  ((subject:"N.T." OR title:(matt, mark, luke, john, acts, romans, corinthi, galat, ephesh, philippi, colossi, thessa, timoth, titus, phile, hebrews, james, peter, john, jude, revela)) ANDNOT (title:(old,henry,study,genes, exodu, levit, deut,joshu,judges,ruth,samuel,kings,chronic,ezra,nehem,esther,job,psalm,proverb,eccles,"song of son"),subject:"O.T.")) AND type:comment

Use: Mostly in Passage Guide, New Testament commentaries

Collection Title:  Comm OT

Collection Rule:  (title:old OR title:(genes, exod, levit, numb, deut, josh, judg, ruth, samue, kings, chronic, ezra, nehem, esther, job, psalms, proverb, "song of", eccles, isaiah, jerem, lament, ezekiel, daniel, hosea, joel, amos, obadiah, jonah, micah, nahum, habakk, zephan, haggai, zecha, malachi) ) AND title:commen

Use: Mostly in Passage Guide, Old Testament commentaries

Collection Title:  Devotionals
Collection Rule:  type:devotion
Use: Mostly for searching in my devotional resources

Collection Title:  Dictionaries
Collection Rule:  (title:dict AND type:Encyclopedia AND subject:bible)
Use: Mostly for searching in my dictionaries both English and Bible

Collection Title:  DictLex
Collection Rule:  mytag:dict OR mytag:lexicon
Use: Mostly for searching in my dictionaries and lexicons that i have tagged in my Library

Collection Title:  English Bibles
Collection Rule:  type:bible AND lang:english
Use: in various searches and other places

Collection Title:  Grammar
Collection Rule:  type:grammar OR subject:grammar
Use: Mostly in Exegetical Guide

Collection Title:  Images2
Collection Rule:  type:media OR type:map
Use: Mostly in searching for images for my Grandkids Bible study

Collection Title:  Monographs
Collection Rule:  type:monograph
Use: Mostly in searching for something in Non-Bibles

Collection Title:  Non-(Bible,Commentaries,Dictionaries)
Collection Rule:  rating:>=0 ANDNOT (type:bible OR type:commentary OR type:encyclopedia OR title:study OR title:systemat)
Use: Mostly in searching for something in Non-Bibles Non-Commentaries, & Non-Systematic Theology books

Collection Title:  Non-Bibles
Collection Rule:  (rating:<=5)  ANDNOT (type:Bible, mytag:maps, title:image, type:timeline, mytag:music)
Use: Mostly in searching for something in Non-Bibles, but includes Commentaries

Collection Title:  Other Commentaries
Collection Rule:   (mytag:"fav commentary") ANDNOT (mytag:"comm verse" OR mytag:"comm topic" OR mytag:"comm howto")
Use: Mostly in searching for something in Commentaries which i have tagged that i like, but are not my normally used ones

Collection Title:  Study BIbles
Collection Rule:  (title:Study AND title:bible)
Use: Mostly in searching for something in my study Bibles that are in my collection

Collection Title:  Top Bibles
Collection Rule:  (mytag:"fav bibles" AND rating:>=3)
Use: Mostly in searching for something in my favorite Bibles that are in my collection that i have tagged and rated

Collection Title:  Topic Commentaries
Collection Rule: (mytag:"comm topic")
Use: Mostly in searching for something in my commentaries that i have tagged as dealing with scripture in a topic format

Collection Title:  Topical Search
Collection Rule:  title:topical OR subject:topic
Use: Mostly in searching for something in topical books

Collection Title:  Verse Comm
Collection Rule:  (mytag:"comm verse")
Use: Mostly in searching for something in my commentaries that i have tagged as dealing with scripture in a verse format

Steve,

Excellent work and you are to be commended for your patient follow through in this whole thread - helping everybody who will ever stop by.

My question is : I was told on another thread that many Collections will slow down L4. Is this true? Under all circumstances (just having created them - even if you are not currently searching them)

Paul Bradley said:

Matt Jarka said:

David Carter said:

David Paul said:

Paul, Matt, David, David,

glad i could help!

EDIT: sorry it took me so long to respond to ya'll, got busy answering posts and making wiki pages.

Tes,

Tes said:

1.  I have no orientation `,no idea.about the last post you have sent me,how?

In your post that i answered you showed my list of Guides. My answer shows you which tools i have installed for each of my guides.

Tes said:

2.  How do I add new resources to the collection I have already created,for eg I want to add "figurative speech "and "hard saying of the Bible" and to which collection ?

1.  i explained how to add these books to a new collection in this post    (i do not have the 'Hard Sayings' book)

2.  Open your passage guide and enter the scripture reference Rom 1:16 and press Enter.

3.  Use the Add to add your new collection like i showed you in steps 3 & 4 (bottom half of post)  this post

4.  change the Settings to use the collection Sayings & Figure of Speech following step 6 (bottom half of post shown in above step) .

5.  Then just view that collection. Notice all the hits for Figures of Speech.

Tes,

Looking at your Passage Guide on the left in the top picture of your post, i noticed that you have several copies of collections named Bible Backgrounds. i am not sure what you have as Rules for each of those collections. If they have the same rules, you probably want to delete those collections (except keep just one of them).

1.  Open the Collection tool. Then click on Open. Logos4 will show the drop down list of your collections.

2.  Notice that i have 2 copies of Sayings & Figure of Speech.
         In your case, you will probably see Bible Background (x)
                              

3.  If you right click on the collection that you want to delete, Logos4 will show you another drop down menu.

4.  If you click on Delete, Logos4 will delete that collection. Warning: when you delete a collection it is permanently gone!

i also wonder how many Bible Dictionaries (?) that you have. If you have more than 1, then you probably want to delete them too.

Having so many collections in your Custom Passage Guide will really slow down how fast the Passage Guide works. Not to mention that it can be confusing to you.

Once that you clean up your list of collections, we might want to review how to edit a Custom Passage Guide. But i will be busy most of today. But maybe later this evening we can review how to do that.