Suggestion: Vyrso purchase filtering

nicky crane said:

Thank you, Alabama.  I didn't know you could do that!  Can I type monograph in my vyrso library search, as I read lots of my logos books, e.g. spurgeon, muller, ramsay, in vyrso

Technically my way is a bit lazy. It would probably be preferable to search "edition:eBook." If you wanted to search for monographs, you could try "monograph" or "type:monograph." I don't have my iPad with me right now (my son is playing Angry Birds [:)]) or I would check for you.

nicky crane said:

yes, eBook worked brilliantly for vyrso resources.  Monograph also worked till I got bogged down in Perseus!  Can I searching monograph but not Perseus somehow?  Anyway I've now got all my vyrso books downloaded and more than enough logos books to keep me supplied in reading matter till I go online again.  Thank you so much for the tip!

I think, if you just input '-perseus' into the library search box should work (I'm not sitting at my L4-PC right now, so try yourself). I think there must be many a thread where this has been discussed.

Graham Criddle said:

In Vyrso I don't believe "-perseus" works on its own.

Actually, "-perseus" in Vyrso filters Library to show all 1,743 Perseus resources, same as "perseus" so the leading "-" is effectively  ignored.

In contrast, "edition:logos -perseus" shows Logos library without Perseus and Vyrso while "edition:e" only shows Vyrso purchases. Since edition currently has 3 values, then "e" is adequate to match eBook (Vyrso).

Keep Smiling [:)]

Graham Criddle said:

NewbieMick said:

I think, if you just input '-perseus' into the library search box should work

In Vyrso I don't believe "-perseus" works on its own.

"monograph -perseus" does work

Graham

Thanks - I see in L4 now that you have to have a 'positive' match to reduce something from it, and that the order of search arguments is irrelevant in this case. Thus, "-perseus monograph" is equivalent to your suggestion and both will find non-Perseus monographs.

"* -perseus" or "-perseus *" will give all resources without the Perseus ones.

Interestingly, the wiki page http://wiki.logos.com/Library__ seems to miss information on library search parameters.

Mick

Graham Criddle said:

Hi Mick

NewbieMick said:

Thus, "-perseus monograph" is equivalent to your suggestion and both will find non-Perseus monographs.

Thanks - I didn't realise that you could reverse these.

NewbieMick said:

Interestingly, the wiki page http://wiki.logos.com/Library__ seems to miss information on library search parameters.

Library search parameters are at http://wiki.logos.com/Library__#Search_Fields_that_you_can_use_in_the_Find_box. Were you looking for something else / additional?

Graham

Graham,

the table there misses the "edition" field (which is contained in the screenshot far above) and - as the section header rightly tells - it is concerned mostly with fields, less with parameters. I'd expect additional information - e.g. that "*" works as a wildcard (I found this by chance yesterday) and prefixed "-" works as exclusion (someone wrote this in the forum someday), that you may use parentheses, AND, OR and ANDNOT - thus "(Lightfoot OR Schaff) AND fathers" is a valid search expression.

Maybe this warrants a new section "Searching the library" (or did I overlook something?). After all, I find I'm often using the library search without fields, see above, as I tend to forget whether the info I'm searching for is contained in the title, the subject or has been added by myself in a tag - like "Didache", "Hermas" etc. in the Lightfoot Apostolic Fathers, where neither Author nor Subject nor even the info text contains the information I'm likely to search for.  

Mick

Graham Criddle said:

Are you up for editing the wiki article???

I'd like to, but this may take its time (after all, my workday just started). Maybe I can do something tonight, my timezone, but maybe it will take until the weekend - if you want, just go ahead, otherwise I'll take a look at it later.

Mick

NewbieMick said:

Graham Criddle said:

Are you up for editing the wiki article???

I'd like to, but this may take its time (after all, my workday just started). Maybe I can do something tonight, my timezone, but maybe it will take until the weekend - if you want, just go ahead, otherwise I'll take a look at it later.

Mick

If have questions about wiki editing, please ask.

Thanks to Steve Clark for creating wiki templates => wiki Template1 and => wiki Template2 that have many wiki formatting examples.

Looking forward to additional information being added.  Personally added edition: to table and noticed Edition column appeared earlier on page with possible values.

Keep Smiling [:)]

" rel="nofollow">Keep Smiling 4 Jesus said:

NewbieMick said:

Graham Criddle said:

Are you up for editing the wiki article???

I'd like to, but this may take its time (after all, my workday just started). Maybe I can do something tonight, my timezone, but maybe it will take until the weekend - if you want, just go ahead, otherwise I'll take a look at it later.

Mick

If have questions about wiki editing, please ask.

Thanks to Steve Clark for creating wiki templates => wiki Template1 and => wiki Template2 that have many wiki formatting examples.

Looking forward to additional information being added.  Personally added edition: to table and noticed Edition column appeared earlier on page with possible values.

Keep Smiling

I put a new section into the existing page: http://wiki.logos.com/Library__#Using_Search_operators_to_find_your_resources  - i felt this was more appropriate than building a new page. I found how to format and include nicely-sized pictures by looking at what was there already. One thing I didn't see is how to make a search string bold that contains the * character - these are plain text right now.

Feel free to update the content and formatting. If something is unclear, or more/better examples are needed, come back to me, so we might keep the examples looking similar and not contradictiong each other regarding search results.

" rel="nofollow">Keep Smiling 4 Jesus said:

NewbieMick said:

I put a new section into the existing page: http://wiki.logos.com/Library__#Using_Search_operators_to_find_your_resources  - i felt this was more appropriate than building a new page. I found how to format and include nicely-sized pictures by looking at what was there already. One thing I didn't see is how to make a search string bold that contains the * character - these are plain text right now.

Feel free to update the content and formatting. If something is unclear, or more/better examples are needed, come back to me, so we might keep the examples looking similar and not contradictiong each other regarding search results.

Noticed section name modification change flows better in page contents => http://wiki.logos.com/Library__#Using_Search_Operators_in_the_Find_box

Using escape character ~ allows * character to be bold: *~** on wiki page means:

 

• *  Bold begin
• ~  Escape to skip wiki formatting for next character
• *  Asterisk character
• *  Bold end

 

Wiki templates => wiki Template1 and => wiki Template2 now have * and / escape examples.

Keep Smiling

Thanks a lot, also for updating the page! I'll try later to get the Eri*on-Example bold as well - maybe I'll have a go at the picture-inclusion as well. Anything missing or unclear content-wise? 

EDIT: I updated the wiki, it now also contains the string search.

And: Happy New Year! Rejoice in the Lord!

Mick