Deleting from Search Collections box
I am at a place where i wand to build a search collection to use with templets. How can I delete what is there at this time so I can start fresh?
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Ronald Sharp said:
I am at a place where i wand to build a search collection to use with templets. How can I delete what is there at this time so I can start fresh?
Are you asking how you can delete existing collections? Or how you can start with a clean slate in the Collections tab to create a new collection?
If the former, click the Open button in the Collections tab to drop down the menu listing existing collections. Right-click on any you want to delete and choose Delete.
If the latter, just click the New button and it will start you off with a fresh (empty) collection named "Unnamed Collection" (you can edit that text to name it whatever you like).
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Very nice.
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Jack Caviness said:
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Very nice.
Yes, it was exceedingly difficult and non-intuitive, even though I was the one who documented the old method of doing it before the website upgrade. But I'm going to have to update the documentation on the wiki, because it's based on the old site.
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I still haven't gotten an answer on how to delete from this box that holds what collections have been put in them. Help
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I'm afraid that's probably because we don't understand your question. There's too many things you could be referring to. Please be more specific about what you want to do. A screen shot would also help.
Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2
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I bought Proctors live seminar video I want to build my own guide and want to add collections to it. when I open the collections box there is many things in it and they are in no order at all. I would like to be able to delete some collections from the search box and put in others and than organize the search box. Thanks
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This might help. When I do a search and than tab entire library a search box comes down. I want to delete collections that I have created and are in that box. Can I and how?
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Ronald Sharp said:
When I do a search and than tab entire library a search box comes down. I want to delete collections that I have created and are in that box. Can I and how?
If I understand you correctly, Rosie told you how to do that 10 minutes after you posted your original post. Are we missing something?
By the way, that "box" is usually called a dropdown. [;)] "Box" is usually used about the place where you type e g a Bible reference, or a word you want to search for. This is one of the reasons we were so confused.
Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2
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Ronald Sharp said:
I bought Proctors live seminar video I want to build my own guide and want to add collections to it. when I open the collections box there is many things in it and they are in no order at all. I would like to be able to delete some collections from the search box and put in others and than organize the search box. Thanks
Not sure what you mean by "no order at all" (unless it's a Mac bug--I'm using Windows). The collections should be listed alphabetically:
Those are all the possible collections. Each collections section in the guide uses only the one collection that you select using this drop-down menu.
As Rosie described, you need to open the collections window if you want to delete collections from the list:
MacBook Pro (2019), ThinkPad E540
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Ronald Sharp said:
I bought Proctors live seminar video I want to build my own guide and
want to add collections to it. when I open the collections box there is
many things in it and they are in no order at all. I would like to be
able to delete some collections from the search box and put in others
and than organize the search box. ThanksRonald Sharp said:This might help. When I do a search
and than tab entire library a search box comes down. I want to delete
collections that I have created and are in that box. Can I and how?OK, Ronald. I think you're referring to the "Search in"
dropdown menu in the Search Tab which shows you a list of your
collections, among other things that can be used to restrict your
search. They are not in "no order at all" -- there is some rhyme and
reason in the order. Here, this might help:First comes a list of all your Open Resources. These are in
alphabetical order by title within the "Open Resources" section of the
menu:Then comes a list of all your Collections that you've created
intentionally (you can get to them under Tools > Collections). These
too are in alphabetical order within the "Collections" section of the
menu:Next is a section of auto-generated collections called "Tags and
Ratings" -- these are listed with "mytag" first and "rating" second,
with all your user-applied tags listed in alphabetical order, and
ratings 1-5 listed in numerical order. This provides a quick way to
limit your search to just the resources that have one tag or one rating:
Finally there's a section called "Series" which lists (in
alphabetical order) all the series that you have in your library. Books
like commentaries often come in series, and the series metadata will
show up in the Series column in your Library. So by selecting one of the
items from this section of the dropdown menu, you can limit a search to
just the books in one of these series.There is no way to delete things from that dropdown list. The list is
auto-generated based on what resource you currently have open, what
collections you have created, what tags you have applied to books in
your library, and what series you own in your library. The only way,
then, to reduce the number of things that shows up in this list would be
to delete collections (which I explained how to do in my first answer
and which Todd expanded on with graphics), or remove tags from your
books.You can, however, filter the list, so that it only shows
things that match whatever you type into the Find box at the top of it.
That is the way to simply your search for something to select in the
list, so you don't have to scroll through all the irrelevant content.
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