Collections Question

I have split my commentaries up a while ago into various types (comm_technical, comm_intermediate, sermons etc) and regularly use an adapted passage guide to search through my commentaries. However, some new ones I forget to label and put in. I currently have my commentary guides set up to explicitly include certain series or books. Is it possible to create a collection that would look something like this:

New collection syntax type:commentary -comm_technical -comm_intermediate

The aim being it would pick up the stragglers that I've forgotten to code? I did see Mark Barnes extensive coding on how he split commentaries but still think he was writing lots of code to pick up on multiple series rather than demonstrating a syntax like that above.

Any ideas on how to implement this would be great - or if you're pretty sure it's impossible that's helpful too! Thank you!

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Mark Smith

Paul, I think the easiest approach is to create another collection with start field: type:commentary, as you've suggested, but then add the collections you've made using the "Exclude from collection" option for each of the other collections you've created (or by dragging the collections to the "Minus these resources" panel) so all your other collected end up in the "Minus these resources" panel.

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The aim being it would pick up the stragglers that I've forgotten to code?

Library filter could find stragglers. My commentary tags begin with Commentary so can find untagged ones by filtering:

Type:"Bible Commentary" -MyTag:Commentary

Screen Shot shows my list of Commentary tags. Thankful for Collection rules for sorting commentaries (updated for Logos 8 Base Packages) by Mark Barnes (so use collection rules to filter my library so can tag commentaries, which is quicker for collection cache refresh, but needs manual tag updating after purchasing more commentaries).

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Paul Chatfield

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1079637#Comment_1079637

Thank you these suggestions both of you. I've spent 2-3 hours coding some collections and then setting my final as type:commentary -(various series I have) and seem to be picking up the few that I've as yet unassigned which is great. Thank you both!

Mark Rodgers

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1079674#Comment_1079674

Paul

You sound like you are on the right track!

I have spent a good few years with my commentaries, filtering out the best, renaming them (i.e Book / Author / Series), tagging them (i.e. critical, pastoral, application etc.) and then assigning them into collections.

I have then produced a guide with the best of my commentaries arranged in the various collections. It certainly takes a long time to really sort out your commentaries, but once done, it allows you to make best use of the resources in the most efficient way.

Hope that gives you some 'extra' ideas!

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1081146#Comment_1081146

I have spent a good few years with my commentaries, filtering out the best, renaming them (i.e Book / Author / Series), tagging them (i.e. critical, pastoral, application etc.) and then assigning them into collections.

What good work you've done.

I noticed you have a typo in your rename of Calvin's commentary: "Exodues to Deuteronomy" -- has an extraneous 'e' in there. It wouldn't show up in a search for type:commentary title:exodus.

Mark Rodgers

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1081149#Comment_1081149

Well spotted Rosie! Fixed