[unresolved] BUG Bibles in "Top Bibles" ignores advanced prioritization as well as canon of Bible

No, but I was comparing non-Bible texts to answer a forum question immediately before I noticed the problem.

No, even with the new beta I am only getting two Bibles.

Dylan Rondeau said:

I'm not able to reproduce, so I'd suspect something in advanced prioritization is causing problems also. 

That may be true but the behavior changed at a time I was not manipulating advance prioritizations - just playing with the highest ranked Bible.

My priorities run several pages  and unfortunately those that are specific to a specific commentary aren't really captured in a screen shot as only the resource title not the series to which it belongs shows.

So I move the primary prioritization to the top - everything belong applies to a specific resource. That gives me as the top priorities:

This improves my results in top Bibles to include 3 bibles ... it appears that Top Bibles doesn't bypass priorities for am irrelevant text or for a resource that does not include the text. Which may also explain why I had to put Psalms of Solomon and Enoch where I did ... otherwise they weren't treated as findable in Bibles.

What I want my prioritization to do is:

1. access the broadest canon my library supports
2. prioritize Bibles for lectionaries that are permissible for us in the church sponsoring the lectionary
3. prioritize the Bible which a commentary uses as its primary translation when specified by the author; sometimes this is multiple versions but priorities are so tedious to build that I ignore that
4. my personal choice of Bibles to prioritize as default - which varies depending upon what I am doing - liturgical, Bible study, ecumenical Bible study or devotional reading.

That sounds like reasonable expectations to me although I know Logos didn't really plan for 3.

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A bit of additional information:

1. I moved the LES for Psalms of Solomon to below NET

2. Entering Psalm of Solomon 2 in the Go box correctly brought up the standard layout with data

3. Opening Text Comparison defaulted to the LXX group with 5 Bibles

4. Switched Text Comparison to Top Bibles and got zero Bibles

Clearly the problem is with the definition of Top Bibles and its relationship to advanced priorities and incomplete biblical canons.

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Okay I have proved that "Top Bibles" ignores whether or not a book occurs in the Bible and ignores any advanced priorities. With the following order: NRSV, NABRE, NJB, NEB, NET, LES ... when I do a Text Comparison on the Prayer of Manasseh on Top Bibles I get the NRSV and the NEB but not the LES,

Changing the order to NRSV, LES, NABRE, NJB, NEB, NET ... when I do the same test I get the NRSV, LES and NEB; If I change to John 1:1 using the same priority sequence I get NRSV, NABRE, NJB, NEB i.e. only 4 Bibles because the LES is ignored. If I apply LES only to the range Psalms of Solomon-odes, it is still chosen if I enter Genesis 1:1.

Obviously, this implies that Faithlife must immediately add the broadest available set of apocrypha possible for each translation!! [:D]

More seriously, this presents a serious limitation to the usability of "Top Bibles" to anyone preferring an OT only translation (JPS, LXX) or a NT only edition. And it appears to override the rules for determining priority making it very difficult to determine what priorities should be and where they are going awry.

It is not a bug in the sense that it is by design but it does render it (a) useless and (b) inconsistent with the basic concepts of prioritization. Thus it is not a bug it, it is ill-conceived.