Creatng Collections for a single bible book commentary
I have tried to find a simple way of doing this- but to be honest the way these are tagged is a nightmare you are forced to go book by, or seriess by series or just scroll through your library.
Please fix this so if we want to create a collection say for 1 Peter- we can just type in "1 Peter or First Peter" and get all the commentaries in our library on that particular book.
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Whyndell,
I agree that the subject tagging leaves a lot to be desired, but a string like type:”bible commentary” AND (title:hebrews OR subject:hebrews) works for most books.
The worst is John's gospel, but even that can be done:
type:commentary AND (title:john OR subject:john)
ANDNOT (subject:”1 John” OR subject:”2 John” OR subject:”3 John” OR
subject:”John, 1st” OR subject:”John, 2nd” OR subject:”John, 3rd” OR
subject:revelation OR subject:”epistles of john”)This is my personal Faithlife account. On 1 March 2022, I started working for Faithlife, and have a new 'official' user account. Posts on this account shouldn't be taken as official Faithlife views!
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Whyndell Grizzard said:
Please fix this so if we want to create a collection say for 1 Peter- we can just type in "1 Peter or First Peter" and get all the commentaries in our library on that particular book.
I too tried this and it took me about 45 minutes to create a "close enough" string, and then compare the results with what the passage guide spits out to make sure I wasn't missing anything.
There are two ways for future users to accomplish this more easily. 1) Logos to spoon feed us the tagging (my much preferred way), 2) For 5 or more users to tag them the same so that the tags get pushed to everyone. I'm game to tag what I have for 1 Peter as a sample to see if it will work.
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Mark Barnes said:
The worst is John's gospel, but even that can be done:
type:commentary AND (title:john OR subject:john)
ANDNOT (subject:”1 John” OR subject:”2 John” OR subject:”3 John” OR
subject:”John, 1st” OR subject:”John, 2nd” OR subject:”John, 3rd” OR
subject:revelation OR subject:”epistles of john”)Probably a better way would be to make the collections for each of the epistles and revelation, and then exclude those collections from the John collection.
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Phil
I'll try the one you have for 1 Peter to see if it works.[;)]
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Philip Spitzer said:
Probably a better way would be
to make the collections for each of the epistles and revelation, and
then exclude those collections from the John collection.I chose to do it the other way around. My epistles string is type:commentary AND (title:john OR subject:john) ANDNOT (subject:revelation) with John's gospel collection excluded. I didn't need individual collections for each of the epistles.
Philip Spitzer said:I too tried this and it took me about 45 minutes to create a "close enough" string, and then compare the results with what the passage guide spits out to make sure I wasn't missing anything.
This took 6 minutes to create - 3 of which were spent trying to work out why it wasn't working - I had an 'or' in lowercase! It's for 1 Peter. All Petrine commentaries, apart from those only about 2 Peter:
type:commentary AND (title:peter OR subject:peter) ANDNOT ((subject:"2nd" OR title:"2 Peter") ANDNOT (subject:"1st" OR title:"1 Peter"))
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I tried this- type:commentary AND (title:1 Peter OR subject:1 Peter)
got Jeremiah, 1/ 2 Thess and numerous other volumes [:)]
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You have to put quotes around strings (multiword search terms).Whyndell Grizzard said:I tried this- type:commentary AND (title:1 Peter OR subject:1 Peter)
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Try subject:"1 peter" in quotes.
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worked fairly well in "library (14)" but in "collections (23)" it also included the 1 Peter comm's.
But still did not bring up all my comm's.
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Whyndell, try my string above. Does that work for you?
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nope no good hear
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Whyndell Grizzard said:
nope no good hear
What's wrong with it? Something missing? Something in that shouldn't be?
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I used (type:commentary AND (title:"Peter" OR subject:"Peter"))
this gives me all my comm's on 1/2 Peter- which is fine I can use the comm's in a collection this way.
Thanks for the help and learning experience you guys are great.
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AND (title:"James" OR "Jude" OR subject:"James" OR "Jude") AND type:commentary)
AND (title:"Romans" OR subject:"Romans") AND type:commentary)
AND (title:"Corinthians" OR subject:"Corinthians") AND type:commentary)
I used this to get my 1 & 2 Corinthians,Romans, James and Jude comm's- it included single and multi book volumes.
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I guess you get the idea these seem to work good let meknow if you find a better way
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To bad we can't have the Tech boys write a script to do this for us [:D]
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Whyndell Grizzard said:
I used (type:commentary AND (title:"Peter" OR subject:"Peter"))
This should work for 1 & 2 Peter, but
type:commentary AND (title:peter OR subject:peter) ANDNOT
((subject:"2nd" OR title:"2 Peter") ANDNOT (subject:"1st" OR title:"1
Peter"))excludes commentaries on 2 Peter if you need it. It includes everything apart from Horae Homileticae, which has very poor metadata, and doesn't include anything it shouldn't.
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