Search Syntax to find sermons I preached in 2015

Say I wanted to see what I preached about in a given month, can someone with some knowledge help me out with the particular syntax of finding all my sermon documents that were preached in February of 2015 (assuming I filled in the occasion information)?

Or, rather, can someone simply help me with the syntax of searching for anything within the metadata of a sermon document? Many thanks!

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Beloved Amodeo

Say I wanted to see what I preached about in a given month, can someone with some knowledge help me out with the particular syntax of finding all my sermon documents that were preached in February of 2015 (assuming I filled in the occasion information)?

Or, rather, can someone simply help me with the syntax of searching for anything within the metadata of a sermon document?

Hi Andrew,

Hope this helps. Taken from Searchable Labels in Logos Help:

Sermon

Labels a single sermon in a collection of sermons. A search for this label populates the "Sermons" guide section.

• Creator ~ "..." — normalized name of the person who developed and delivered the sermon
• Title ~ "..." — name given to the sermon by its creator
• Subtitle ~ "..." — ancillary title information given by its creator
• Series ~ "..." — series in which the sermon was originally preached, if any
• References ~ <Bible ...> — Bible references for the sermon as a whole
• Date ~ <Date ...> — when the sermon was first delivered
• Liturgical Date ~ <LiturgicalDate ...> — typically the liturgical date when the sermon was first delivered

For example:

• {Label Sermon WHERE Author ~ "Charles H. Spurgeon" AND References ~ <Bible Romans 5-7>}
• {Label Sermon WHERE Title ~ "Signs of the King" AND Creator ~ "Timothy J. Keller" AND References ~ <Bible Acts 2:37-47> AND Date ~ <Date Aug 13, 1989> AND Series ~ "The King and the Kingdom"}

Logos Help. (2016). Bellingham, WA: Faithlife.

Dave Hooton

Not entirely. Use Creator rather than Author. I couldn't get Series and Date to recognise my sermon.

Use Basic Search > Your Documents.

See Why doesn't the Sermon Editor accept my Topic entry

Andrew Batishko

Currently the following Sermon Label attributes are supported for searching Sermon documents:

Title
Creator
References

I've created a case to make the Series and Date attributes also searchable.

In addition to doing a label search (which will also return sermons that have been tagged in your library), you can also do a search that finds values in specific fields. The following fields are supported:

title
author
church
series
date - I think this may be document creation date, not the occasion date
tag topic
tag passage
audience
description
notes
content

I'll create a case to add the occasion date and venue fields as well.

Some example searches would be:

series:"In the Beginning"
[field tag topic]love
[field date]<Date second half of 2016>

Philana R. Crouch

Say I wanted to see what I preached about in a given month, can someone with some knowledge help me out with the particular syntax of finding all my sermon documents that were preached in February of 2015 (assuming I filled in the occasion information)?

Or, rather, can someone simply help me with the syntax of searching for anything within the metadata of a sermon document? Many thanks!

You should be able to search for this in 7.5 (7.5.0.0031).

Andrew Zoll

You should be able to search for this in 7.5 (7.5.0.0031).

This is awesome! Thanks for getting this implemented, Faithlife! Me likey!