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No "hits" button for search results?


TYA

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Great day all.

 

Did I do something wrong, or is there a reason that I don't get a "hits" button to jump between search results in the Talmud?  See attached please.

 

 

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TYA, the hits buttons would be fully redundant in this case. They navigate you to the verse (or paragraph, if in a tool) containing your search result. Since you are showing no context, you are only displaying the verses that have hits. Thus, the hits buttons would act identically to the Verse buttons, which are still visible.

 

I hope this makes sense!

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TYA, the hits buttons would be fully redundant in this case. They navigate you to the verse (or paragraph, if in a tool) containing your search result. Since you are showing no context, you are only displaying the verses that have hits. Thus, the hits buttons would act identically to the Verse buttons, which are still visible.

 

So, in this case, the "Verse" button essentially acts as a "Hit" button, allowing me to jump to the next verse containing a hit.  That is good news at first sight, because I thought the "Verse" button just moved me to the next verse, regardless of hits.  But you've got to admit that this is a little misleading, since some texts display a "Hit" button, and now I see that some only display a "Verse" button.

 

Case in point: this image I posted (now see the newest one attached right here) shows that I have the Babylonian Talmud parallel open, with Hebrew on the left, and English on the right.  If I search Hebrew on the left, I only get a "Verse" button, but if I search English words on the right, I get the "Hits" button.  This is dissimilar.

 

It also leads to the next question, which is why can't I jump from one "hit" to another in Hebrew?  The Talmud "verses" are enormous--some of them spanning whole pages of text (unlike the Bible).  So I could easily get multiple hits in a single verse.  (See, again, this newest screenshot showing this very thing).  Why can't I scroll one hit at a time?  I can do this with the English translation on the right.

 

Okay, so I guess that is going beyond the original topic of this thread.  Thanks for answering the initial question, because it does indeed help.  Even without being able to go hit by hit on the Hebrew side, I'm sure glad to know that I can at least go from one verse with a hit to the next verse with a hit.

 

Thanks, Joel!

 

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TYA, the Hits and verse buttons are definitely not being inconsistent - the same rule always applies.  If you have hits, but are displaying more verses than there are hits, the hits buttons appear to make it easier to navigate to the locations.

 

In your screenshot, on the right you are actually showing a tool, not a text.  Tools default to always showing All Context, which is why the Hits button is present.  You can change the context of a tool with the gear icon you see right below the Page listing. If you change it to just show the Articles or Paragraphs, your Hits button will disappear, for the same reason.

 

As far as scrolling to the actual line containing the hit, this is 99% of the time not needed.  Only the Talmud and a few other texts have individual "verses" that are so long this is an issue.  Historically, Accordance has always been verse based, so changing our navigation to be to a line would be a big adjustment.  It also would break the current Hit button philosophy and visibility consistency, and this would all be for just a few texts.  So, for now, it hasn't become a high priority.

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TYA, the Hits and verse buttons are definitely not being inconsistent - the same rule always applies.

 

Okay, in this sense you are correct, of course.  But what I meant to say is that the Hits and Verse buttons are different in their appearance, and apparently, also their functionality (at least in this case with the Talmud).  It's enough to throw any smart person off, in my opinion, and therefore worth Accordance hearing the feedback.  I'm not complaining, but making a point that it was less than intuitive.

 

I appreciate your first explanation, again.  I'm just glad to know that I have some sort of "hits" functionality in the Hebrew text of the Talmud, even if it isn't as refined as other texts.  The main thing is that I'm grateful to have it.

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