Kolen Cheung: Also, it is quite common to have 2 volume commentaries, 1 for OT, 1 for NT. Literally they aren't "One Volume Commentaries", but in practice there aren't too much difference between them (i.e. they made an effort to reduce things to 1 vol., just per testament or per bible.) Would you consider regarding them as "Commentaries (One Volume)", or perhaps add a new "Commentaries (Two Volumes)"?
Also, it is quite common to have 2 volume commentaries, 1 for OT, 1 for NT.
Literally they aren't "One Volume Commentaries", but in practice there aren't too much difference between them (i.e. they made an effort to reduce things to 1 vol., just per testament or per bible.)
Would you consider regarding them as "Commentaries (One Volume)", or perhaps add a new "Commentaries (Two Volumes)"?
Sorry, I should have said it all in one go.
I looked at the rule to create "Commentaries (One Volume)", there's no extension that can make it include "One volume per testament kind of commentaries". Either it has to be manually added as a collection, or Logos/Faithlife add new metadata to it.
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Kolen Cheung:I looked at the rule to create "Commentaries (One Volume)", there's no extension that can make it include "One volume per testament kind of commentaries". Either it has to be manually added as a collection, or Logos/Faithlife add new metadata to it.
This gets close: type:bible-commentary AND {Series Any} AND (subject:”Bible.O.T.--Commentaries” OR subject:”Bible.N.T.--Commentaries”)
You can't cater exclusively for a series-pair, so you have to tag them to be excluded or included.
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Dave Hooton:type:bible-commentary AND {Series Any} AND (subject:”Bible.O.T.--Commentaries” OR subject:”Bible.N.T.--Commentaries”)
It was always my intention to include two-volume commentaries in the one-volume collection. I've re-written the rule to do a better job of this. In my library, that's increased the number of resources included from 39 to 66.
I've also added A Messianic Commentary to the Expository collection.
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I updated from Commentaries:One Volume to Commentaries (One Volume) and also saw a dramatic increase in resources.
Can you clarify the difference between Commentaries:Expository and Commentaries (Expository)? I get the same resource count with either collection. Is the addition of A Messianic Commentary the only change?
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David Thomas:Can you clarify the difference between Commentaries:Expository and Commentaries (Expository)?
I don't have a collection called "Commentaries: Expository". I think the ones with colons are ones that abondservant created using my rules (with my permission), before we could easily share collections (i.e. prior to Logos 8). They won't have been updated for at least a year, I think.
Mark Barnes:They won't have been updated for at least a year, I think.
Thank you. I just added all the collections with parenthesis and deleted my collections with a colon and the same name.
Mark Barnes:I've re-written the rule to do a better job of this. In my library, that's increased the number of resources included from 39 to 66.
Did you push the update to the public already?
I didn't see that changed on my side. IIRC, it seems that if you publish it, you need to manually update it on the web, but on the receiver's side it is automatically being pushed. But https://wiki.logos.com/Documents_ didn't mention this rule. (Nor did the Logos Help manual, it seems.)
Do you have the IVPBBC? The rule suggested above (that I made as "Commentaries (Two Volumes)") has this included but not the "Commentaries (One Volume)".
Kolen Cheung: Mark Barnes:I've re-written the rule to do a better job of this. In my library, that's increased the number of resources included from 39 to 66. Did you push the update to the public already?
Yes I did that yesterday. I don't subscribe to any other collections, so I'm not sure what is supposed to happen when I update a collection. You could go to https://documents.logos.com/ and choose "Resource Collections" from the dropdown menu and see if you can force an update that way.
Kolen Cheung:Do you have the IVPBBC? The rule suggested above (that I made as "Commentaries (Two Volumes)") has this included but not the "Commentaries (One Volume)".
I include this in my background commentaries collection, rather than in my one-volume collection. Likewise for other specialist commentaries such as Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament.
You also mentioned earlier: The New International Greek Testament Commentary: Expanded Paraphrase of 2 Corinthians. This isn't a commentary. It's a paraphrase of the biblical text, so it's not included. The actual commentary, The New International Greek Testament Commentary: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians is included.
I See. Thanks for your reply, and follow up on what I forgot already.
Currently on 8.3 and still not seeing any but 2 of the commentary lists (one volume & expository). Still wondering if there is something I can do to 'purge' the deleted list. I'd really love to have this working again.
danwdoo:Currently on 8.3 and still not seeing any but 2 of the commentary lists (one volume & expository). Still wondering if there is something I can do to 'purge' the deleted list. I'd really love to have this working again.
Are you referring to the bug that once deleted cannot add again? People said that one can go to deleted document to recover them.
Ah! I see them there. That seems to solve it. Thanks!
I've updated the collections to add:
If you want the latest versions, you can manually update them using the syntax in the first post, or if you've previously downloaded them from https://documents.logos.com/ head back there to get the latest version.
A huge "Thank you!" for this Mark!
Thanks, Mark!
Is there a reason for including "The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges" in 'Intermediate' rather than 'Historical: 1750-1950'? According to the series PDP, the publication date range is from 1882-1922.
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I've made two changes to the collections:
I'm still not clear whether it's possible to update to the latest version from within Logos, or whether you need to head to https://documents.logos.com/. Perhaps someone could clarify that, and let us know the steps required.
MJ. Smith: Mark Barnes: I had already added: The People's Bible Ah, you added a different series that's name starts with rather than is in its entirety. https://www.logos.com/product/9330/the-peoples-bible-complete-set is the set I was referring to.
Mark Barnes: I had already added: The People's Bible
I had already added:
Ah, you added a different series that's name starts with rather than is in its entirety. https://www.logos.com/product/9330/the-peoples-bible-complete-set is the set I was referring to.
The above collection is still not picked up.
I started with "type:"Bible commentary" and subtracted out all your collections which left me with 98 books unaccounted for. The series that seem to me ought to be caught as series are:
One-volume commentaries not picked up include:
The remaining 26 items require a bit more research on my part.
Thanks for your work on this.
Just an FYI for those using your collections, I find it useful to have a Jewish commentary collection and a Lectionary-based commentary collection ... I'm sure the latter is no surprise.
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Mark, by all the comments that have been made this must be something that is really helpful. I have limited knowledge to all the finer point of Logos 8 and am not really sure how this will help organize my Library. or what advantage it would be to me to integrate this into my program. Please give me some insight. Thanks for all the work you did.