Collections

 

!!!! Adding a Collection of books as an exception

If you have a collection of all your journals there may be one journal series you do not wish to have in your collection. You could add each year of the journal individually, but when you update your journal collection the new year's issue of this journal would be added to your collection. The better option is to create a collection containing all the issues of that journal and exclude that collection from your "Journal" collection. Then when the new issue is added to your library, it is added to the collection for that journal, and excluded from your "journal" collection automatically. In the following instructions we will seek to exclude the fictional journal "Making It Up Journal" from a collection of journals.

If you have a collection of all your journals there may be one journal series you do not wish to have in your collection. You could add each year of the journal individually, but when you update your journal collection the new year's issue of this journal would be added to your collection. The better option is to create a collection containing all the issues of that journal and exclude that collection from your "Journal" collection. Then when the new issue is added to your library, it is added to the collection for that journal, and excluded from your "Journal" collection automatically. In the following instructions we will seek to exclude the fictional journal "Making It Up Journal" from a collection of journals.

 

#. Create a collection of the journal series you wish to exclude.Usetheinstructionsaboveunder"creating".Title the collection "Making It Up Journal", and use the rule (withoutbracketsandWITHquotes)[title:"Making It Up Journal"]. This collection will include every issue of Making It Up Journal.

#. Create a collection of the journal series you wish to exclude. Title the collection /Making It Up Journal/, and use the rule *title:~"Making It Up Journal~"*. This collection will include every issue of Making It Up Journal.

#. Open the collection "Journal"usingtheinstructionsabovelabeled"Opening"or create it if you have not already done so.

#. Open the collection /Journal/, or create it if you have not already done so.

#. Click "Open" and navigate to the collection you wish to exclude. Do not press enter!

#. Drag the name of the collection you wish to exclude to the area titled "- Minus these resources:"

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The fields correspond to the columns of your Library in /Details/ view, but you will have to right click on a column header to see all available columns. Most of these can be used to filter your collection, but the field name is different to the column name e.g. to filter by *My Tags* you must use *mytag*. See [[the Library wiki >> Library # Search Fields that you can use in the Find box]] for a list of the fields and possible values.

 

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* Do not leave a space after the colon; e.g., it's *lang:greek* not *lang: greek* (if you do leave a space it ignores the field name and will find all resources that mention the text you put after the space)

* Use quotation marks for phrases e.g. *title:"bible doctrine"* finds only references with those two words together in the title, but *title:bible doctrine* would find books with "bible" in the title and "doctrine" elsewhere).