I did a search on the topic of salvation. I have no results. What is going on? Am I doing something wrong?
Try it searching All Text instead, then click on the "Topic salvation" result. Search > topic searches specific areas of resources, not the topic of salvation throughout your library.
When I use all text there are too many results that come up. I am looking for the sections in different books that deal with that topic. Like in most systematic theology books they have a section called soteriology. My reference works should have headings called salvation, but when I search under just headings instead of topics I come up with nothing either. Using all text is not helpful at all for what I am trying to do, there are just to many hits that dont apply for what I am looking for.
I am hoping there is another way to get the results I am looking for. I appreciate you taking the time to respond.
Blessings in Christ alone..
You might try making a collection of the books you are most interested in - and doing a search only in that collection. Here is the collection I use:
(title:Topic OR title:Dictionary OR title:Encyclopedia) ANDNOT (title:commentary)
It may be two broad for you, but it is a place to start.
Blair,
In L3 there was a tool that did this called the topic browser. However in L4 Logos has chosen to not recreate that tool with the intent to try to develop a better way to get more accurate results throughout the whole library. The Topic browser relied on special topic tagging inside a resource but there were real issues with consistency with that kind of tagging. There has been a lot of discussion (older and more extensive discussion - See Sean Boisen's comments) on this issue and the good folks at Logos are aware of the need and are considering solutions, but none that I have heard recently.
If you still have LDLS3 installed you can use the topic browser there and it may be helpful.
That is what I ended up doing. I dont understand why I cant just search for the "heading" salvation, and come up with results. I know I have books that have the "heading" salvation. We have a lot of ways to search, but when I search the term salvation, I found that many of the features are not working properly. I headed over to topics.logos.com and found that a post on the subject has not been posted yet either. Hopefully, when I get through writting my paper on the subject I can post on it.
Blessings in Christ alone...
I have not used L3 in a long time, I forgot all about it. I will try my search in there appreciate it. I am glad Logos is aware of the issue...
Blair, Peace to you in the Lord! *smile*
I have a very extensive library; and when I search for salvation, I get "topic" under the results. Not as good as L3, but it's somthing.
Do you get your dictionaries in your search?
I dont understand why I cant just search for the "heading" salvation, and come up with results.
Topic Search in L4 is not obvious and there has been a lot of debate. In short, use Basic Search as in the previous post or use the Definition section of a Bible Word Study - see http://wiki.logos.com/Bible_Word_Study#Definition_section
Whilst it doesn't work with all "Bible" words directly entered, it can be used from the right click menu of a word.
The first time I searched I did not get the topics section. Although my content section came up. After trying different searches when I went back to the original search,and it did come up. It is a very helpful feature when it actually comes up in a search. I do not know why it does not always come up, but I have noticed in a lot of different searches that I do that it does not always show up.
Blessings in Christ...
or use the Definition section of a Bible Word Study
I did not think about searching it through the word study. I tried it, it was really helpful.
The first time I searched I did not get the topics section
I think (not know) that a word has to be in the Logos Controlled Vocabulary to show in a Topics section. I haven't had trouble with inconsistency, however.
I could have had something set wrong on when searching the first time tonight for the subject. Topics do not come up when searching in a paticular collection (not sure if everyone's is the same) But there are times that I search for terms, and they do not come up in the topic section. E.g.
It is probably a vocab thing like you said.
Topics do not come up when searching in a paticular collection (not sure if everyone's is the same)
Yes, I find it annoying that both Topics and My Content seem to require an Entire Library search.
