Bar Ilan Software Support - Using Saved Search Results in New Searches
Saved search results can be used as a search component in new queries in several different ways.
(a) You can combine previous search results with other search results.
For example, you might want to search for two ex pressions, one of which consists of two or more words (e.g., בית כנסת and ביהכ"נ). Now, as a rule you cannot combine such ex pressions in a single search, but you can perform the two searches separately and combine the results as follows:
1. Perform the first search (e.g., for בית כנסת), and save the results.
2. Perform the second search (e.g., for ביהכ"נ), and save the results under the same name you specified for the first search.
3. When prompted by Responsa that a saved search with the specified name already exists, click Append.
When you recall the saved search, Responsa combines the results from both of the searches which you saved.
• If you prefer, you can specify the name of a saved search in braces as one of the components in your search request.
For example, if you searched for בית כנסת and saved the results under the name בית, you can search for all occurrences of ביהכ"נ and בית כנסת (i.e., the search בית) by typing the following query:
({בית}/ביהכ"נ)
You can also specify several “saved searches” when combining previous search results. For example, if you had already searched for #ביהכ"נ and saved the search results under the name כנסת, you can search for all occurrences of either בית כנסת (search: בית) or ביהכ"נ (search: כנסת) by typing:
({בית}/{כנסת})
(b) You can perform additional searches on “saved search results,” treating these results as if they were regular databases.
For example, if you had saved search results about synagogues, as described above, you can locate material about synagogues on Shabbat by typing:
משפט: ({בית}/ {כנסת}) #שבת#
This will search your “synagogue database” (i.e., the results of your searches for בית כנסת and ביהכ"נ) for all passages in which the word שבת, with grammatical prefixes or suffixes, appears in the same sentence as בית כנסת or ביהכ"נ.
Alternatively, if you had saved the results of searches בית and כנסת under the name כנישתא, you can search for material about synagogues on Shabbat by typing:
משפט: {כנישתא} #שבת#
(c) Likewise, you can specify several “saved searches” when searching through previous search results.
For example, if you had searched for material about Shabbat and saved the results under the name שבת, you can search for material about synagogues on Shabbat by typing:
משפט: {כנישתא} {שבת}
since this will locate all passages in which material about synagogues (search: כנישתא) appears in the same sentence as material about Shabbat (search: שבת).
As you can see, the possibilities which “saved searches” offer are almost limitless; just use your imagination to reap the full benefits of this option.
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