Collections

* [[Creating Rules >> # Creating Rules]]

* [[Filterable fields >> # Filterable fields]]

* [[Examples >> # Examples]]

* [[Exampleswithrules>> # Exampleswithrules]]

 

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!! Creating Rules

Creating rules is fun! OK, I'm just trying to encourage you :-) There are two courses to go through here. You can learn the tips listed below so you can generate your own rules, or you can cut and paste the examples into the rules section of your own collection. this actually makes sharing collections extremely easy. No downloading, no getting it into the correct folder, just a simple cut and paste. Most likely though you will want to generate your own collections for your own needs. Hopefully t (…)

To help you create your own collection rules, tips and examples are provided below, together with links to other wiki articles.

 

!!!! Filterable fields

!!! Filterable fields

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.

 

!!!!! Search Field notes

!!!! Search Field notes

* 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 onlyreferences with those two words together in the title, but *title:bible doctrine* would find books with "bible" in the title and "doctrine" elsewhere).

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

* if you set *Show Community Ratings* and *Show Community Tags* in Program Settings you can use /rating:/, /tag:/ and /communitytag:/ for community values. /myrating:/ and /mytag:/ are used for the values that you apply.

* Publication Date can be very beneficial if you want to limit your collection to more recent resources, or resources of a given generation. For instance if you want to limit your Journals collection to issues between 1990 and 2000 you would include *(pubdate:>=1990 AND pubdate:<2000)* in your string.

* exact matches are not required. For instance if you filter by /subject:theolog/ it will return resources that contain "theology", "theologies", and "theologians".

* exact matches when filtering are not required. The field only has to contain the string, not equal the string. For instance if you filter by /subject:theolog/ it will return resources that contain "theology", "theologies", and "theologians".

* ANDNOT can be used to refine resource exclusion e.g. to exclude commentaries with Second (or 2 or II) in /Title/ use:  *type:commentary ANDNOT Title:(Second,2,”II”)*

 

!! Examples

!!! Exampleswithrules

The wiki has [[Example Collections]] and [[Canonical Commentary Collections]].

Refer to [[Tagging]] for adding your own tags to your Library resources.

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 * *English Bibles*

 

   * *type:bible lang:English myrating:>1* \\ This straightforward rule does not need explicit *AND*'s. If a bible is not useful, rate it as 1 star and it won't be included!

If you want to exclude a title use a rule like *subject:Bible--Index, mytag:topical ANDNOT title:"New American Standard"*

 * *Bible Topics*

   * *(type:encyclopedia AND myrating:>1)  OR  mytag:topics* \\ This shows inclusion (/mytag:topics/) and exclusion (/myrating:>1/) of resources without having to exclude titles individually. \\ Note that *ANDNOT myrating:1* is not equivalent to *AND myrating:>1* as /unrated/ resources would be included. \\ When you get new resources of /type:encyclopedia/, ensure that you rate them accordingly. Otherwise, tag them as *topics* to ensure they are included.