SUGG: Limit library searches by title or author

Would there be a way to limit the list in the library according to whether the word/s is in the title or in the author field.

If I type "Mark" into the reference box (or whatever it is called), A list of 88 items appear. If I sort these by rank, the Word Biblical Commentaries come in at #s 44 and 45 (!).

I would like to be able to type in t:mark or TITLE=Mark or some such so as to be able to limit the list to only those books which titles include the word "Mark". Then, I could quickly work out which commentaries I have on individual books.

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Christopher W. Myers

Agreed. L3 had it right, it just took up a lot more space. I hope they figure out how to keep the clean look of L4 and add this feature to Library searches.

Phil Gons (Logos)

If I understand what you're asking, you can already do this:

title:mark
author:mark
type:commentary

You can search for multiple criteria by doing title:mark type:commentary and find all of your commentaries with Mark in the title.

Christopher W. Myers

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/7595#Comment_7595

Duh...Thank You

Damian McGrath

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/7595#Comment_7595

Thanks Phil.

That hasn't made it into the help yet as far as I could find. I tried a few things but not that one [:$].

I see that "author:" is similar.

spitzerpl

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/7603#Comment_7603

Are there plans to add the available search options in a selection box similar to the morph search?

Bob Pritchett

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/7617#Comment_7617

Are there plans to add the available search options in a selection box similar to the morph search?

Not at this point. We're trying to keep the UI as clean as possible. I know that things like "author:smith" (not to mention "g:logos") aren't obvious, but we're hoping they are in the category of "you only need to hear it once", and that we can cover them in introductory videos.

The iPhone gets pretty high marks for usability, but actually has some impossible to discover things in it. But once someone says "swipe your finger to change photos" or "pinch to zoom out" you've got it. I don't think anybody wants those instructions on screen after the first day.

Of course we may be over or under-shooting our target on the interface; that's why we're beta testing with you! :-) And we've actually defaulted to less-discoverability and to not telling you everythiing in the release notes in order to see what really is obvious, or how little help it takes to make something clear. Because it's easier to add that help after seeing it's needed than to take it away later.

BTW, if you switch the Library to details mode you can double-click on a column header to sort on that field. You can also right-click on the column headers to see all the other fields you can add to the details display.

Jacob Hantla

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/7641#Comment_7641

I think it makes the program fun: Easter eggs...like f8. I think we'll be discovering fun things for years to come.

But seriously, I think that a cleaner interface like this is preferable.

Would it be possible to right click over the search field and have the options popup (like a context menu of search operators and a context menu of things like mytag: author: title: etc? That would make it not only easy and clean for power users, but it would make the learning curve a little less steep for the newbies (Among the casual, non-techie user at my church, there is a sense that Libronix is an impossibly hard program and general fear to learn new things, and something like this suggestion will keep it clean and make it easier to use).
-Jacob

J.R. Miller

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/7706#Comment_7706

I like the idea of a right click on the search fields to get a quick list of search commands. That would help me A LOT!!!

Simon’s Brother

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/7716#Comment_7716

I have to agree with Jacob and Joe here on this one. When designing reports for the end user in the business enviorment I did something like this with some new reports I was designing, to give clear context as to what the number in the column represented so that everyone using the report was then on the same page as to its intrepretation. It became a requested feature in reports from that point onwards, Keeping the interface clear and uncluttered is piriotiy but popup hovers giving context sensitive quick lists or commands that can be used or definitons, are just as important. I like to think I only need to be told something once but reality is that as each year passes I do have more senior moments than I care to admit to and any helpful, quickly accessed little reminders are reallly appreciated.