GL3 Search Broke

The search functionality in GL3 is abysmally broke.

Try searching for a favorite phrase from the scriptures. I have yet to get a match, except when I searched: as a man thinketh

That did NOT provide a match for the actual verse in Proverbs, yet it provided a match in the Guide to the Scriptures manual.

Are you using the newest (blue-themed) version, Gospel Library 3.4?

Yep.

I know it probably doesn't help, but I just did this search now (see screen shot), and it gave me 1 answer in "Scriptures", and when I click that, it shows 1 in "Guide to the Scriptures" (which I find odd, why isn't it showing Proverbs 23:7 which is where that scripture is from?), when I click on that, I see an entry for "Heart" with this and at least 3 other scriptures previewed, and when I click on that, I get a bunch of entries.
NOTE: I started my search at "Library" - I did not first navigate to the Guide to the Scriptures. I'll try that now: Did that and got the index of entries. Hit the search icon and my search was still there, hit the Search button on the keyboard and it brought up the same results. So the search must not be location sensitive like it is on the android (at least prior to the latest update, which I haven't downloaded cuz I don't think I'll like it).

iPhone 5s

I'll help more if I can, but I'll be trading in the iPhone for a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 as soon as the guys at work can get it in and switch my number over.

Liz

Strange, you get more up front results than I do.

I started my search at library and only got the one hit in the Guide to the Scriptures.
I was hoping that the developers lurk this forum. From past experience, if they do they don't respond much .

I will try their Facebook page as well as email.

Does it only search books/collections that you've already downloaded?

I wonder that too. My iPhone has everything downloaded.

Liz

I would suspect only downloaded items get queried but have no proof of that. I do however have the full standard works downloaded yet it misses the hit(s) directly in the scriptures that I am looking for.

In your second post/set of screens, you show that there's a match in the Guide to the Scriptures. Have you opened that up and looked at the entry it links to? Is it the entry for "Heart"? Cuz if you use that to go to Proverbs, you will find that the direct quote is different from your search phrase and from the way they phrase it in the Guide to the Scriptures (something I keep forgetting). Perhaps that's why there's not a direct match to Proverbs?

Liz

I appreciate what you are saying but the point is that it is not getting directly to the scripture. This search has a "work around" like you've pointed out. But I've done other scriptural searches that have yielded nothing. I'm just trying to get some eyeballs on this issue so it can get fixed in a future release.

McEwanBr wrote:I appreciate what you are saying but the point is that it is not getting directly to the scripture. This search has a "work around" like you've pointed out.

But you're including a search term that does not appear in the scripture. So at least from the example you've given, I see no evidence that there is a problem. You are searching for the term "man" in your search terms, but the actual text of Proverbs 23:7 is "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he" (note that it uses "he" and not "man"). So it's not surprising that that scripture is not listed as a match.

McEwanBr wrote:But I've done other scriptural searches that have yielded nothing. I'm just trying to get some eyeballs on this issue so it can get fixed in a future release.

Perhaps you could share these other searches that have not yielded the results you expected. If there is a problem, having a concrete example would help.

Interesting catch, thank you.

This does point out why the searches are failing though. The search doesn't like partials.

Try searching: as thinketh

Or: eye needle

I know those partial searches used to work in a previous version but they don't now.

You would have to include phrase matches, like: eye of a needle ... to get Matthew 19 or: as he thinketh ... to get Proverbs 23:7 for example.

Hmmm. I wonder why they changed it?

Sorry, McEwanBr... I got caught up in how the search works for this one scripture and lost the original point. I've also had times when my search criteria didn't find what I was looking for. My experience in those cases made me suspect the search is topical or keyword driven, rather than a full text search. But that's only my suspicion, and this case doesn't help prove that (when I searched for "as he thinketh", it gave me Proverbs).

I'll try to remember some searches that didn't work for me and post them as examples (it's been a while since the last time I tried searching for something and couldn't find the match, but hopefully I will remember one or two)...

Liz

I am quite frustrated. I was searching for 'Ebenezer' and the gl3 search returned 0 results. Today I wanted to quickly locate the verse where tents were pitched when families listened to king Benjamin. I entered 'tents temple' and got 0 results.

I wish I could help further, but I no longer have an iPhone. FWIW, GL 3 on an android phone finds several results for Ebenezer and 1 (in the index of the triple combination) for 'tents temple'. Hopefully more iPhone users can chime in and help the development team get a reproducible error (I'm a programmer, so I know that unless they can reproduce the error, they wont' be able to fix it). (NOTE: I have the entire library downloaded, and I'm sure you must have the content downloaded for the search to find anything there.)

Liz