Building a Collection

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Ted Harms | Forum Activity | Posted: Thu, Oct 28 2021 8:44 PM

I want to build a Collection from books in my Library that deal with The Life of Christ. In my library I have several books with the title Life Of Christ and other books which have the subject of The Life of Christ. I want to build collection for those books, Have tried many options but can't get it.

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Bill Shewmaker | Forum Activity | Replied: Fri, Oct 29 2021 7:27 AM

I found this one somewhere along the line that has helped me:

title:"Life of Christ" OR subject:"Christ" OR mytag:"life of Christ" ANDNOT Christian OR topic:"Christ" ANDNOT Christian 

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DAL | Forum Activity | Replied: Fri, Oct 29 2021 8:26 AM

Just don’t build too many collections or it will slow down your machine 👌

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DMB | Forum Activity | Replied: Fri, Oct 29 2021 2:29 PM

SteveF:

DAL:

it will slow down your machine

Has anyone ever calculated the "optimum" # of Collections.

i.e. "How many" is "too many"? OR "acceptable "range" of #'s?

This thread was interesting ... especially when Armin deleted a bunch of collections for no benefit. Advised saving them first.  Later in the thread, Bradley explained the challenges of collection queries in visual filters .... surprising.

https://community.logos.com/forums/p/190721/1100428.aspx?ssi=0 

But earlier, a mystified Logosian with over 500 collections, was advised by Bradley ... that's too many. But on further review (user logs), he retracted that.

So, probabably a lot might be ok, but too many might not be ok.

Maybe someone knows.

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Dave Hooton | Forum Activity | Replied: Fri, Oct 29 2021 7:15 PM

DMB:

SteveF:

DAL:

it will slow down your machine

Has anyone ever calculated the "optimum" # of Collections.

i.e. "How many" is "too many"? OR "acceptable "range" of #'s?

This thread was interesting ... especially when Armin deleted a bunch of collections for no benefit. Advised saving them first.  Later in the thread, Bradley explained the challenges of collection queries in visual filters .... surprising.

https://community.logos.com/forums/p/190721/1100428.aspx?ssi=0 

But earlier, a mystified Logosian with over 500 collections, was advised by Bradley ... that's too many. But on further review (user logs), he retracted that.

So, probabably a lot might be ok, but too many might not be ok.

Maybe someone knows.

Heuristics are the best we can come up with, so here are mine:

• don't use a Collection if you have a tag or series for the resources ---> tags and series are recognised in Passage Guide and Searches e.g. mytag:Background-Commentary, mytag:Apologetics, series:myOT-NT-Lexicon
• don't use a Collection if the type will suffice  --->  you can enter type:grammar in a Search
• if you are familiar & confident with Subjects use it in a Search  e.g. subj:fathers will give you the Nicene and Apostolic Fathers.
• if you have a collection with a short rule you can remember (for a Search), delete it!
• use the flexibility of Search Fields to advantage  e.g. mytag:(Notes, Background, Textual)  instead of mytag:Notes OR mytag:Background OR mytag:Textual; and series:Tyndale will find multiple series with "Tyndale" in the name.
• for really complicated rules to use in Passage Guide import/use collections that use the Extension Syntax defined in the Library wiki (above).