VerseVIEW 4 has the word or phrase SEARCH feature. This allows searching for a word or a phrase in the Bible. VerseVIEW 4 comes with search for English King James Version of the Bible. Search database for other translations are available on the VerseVIEW website for free download.

Word Search

Search can be initiated from the main navigation screen. This is a quick search and searches through the entire Bible for verses that contains the keywords.

Advanced Search allows to select verses that “contains” or “exact match” the keyword. Search can be filtered to a specific book of the Bible.

See “Adding Search DB” page to see how to add a search DB to your VerseVIEW.

VerseVIEW 4 has the NOTES feature. This allows users to take notes specifically for a verse. Notes can be reviewed for a chapter or as a topic. This tool could be used to create and distribute notes for Bible study, Sermons or Sunday School.

Chapter and Topic Notes

Notes Features

1. Create NEW Notes – Prompts the user to a Name and Description for the new notes. Clicking SAVE will generate a new Notes database.
   
2. LOAD Notes from a file – This will open up a file browser dialog box and the user selects the .db file that contains the Notes database.
3. SELECT Notes – The pull down list shows all available VerseVIEW notes on the system. Clicking SELECT will make the selected note active. Any new notes entry will go to this database.
4. DELETE Notes – This allows to delete inactive notes. The Default Notes and active notes can not be deleted.
5. SAVE Notes – Saves the notes to Desktop under a folder named “vvnotes”. This file can be zipped and distributed to others.
6. Notes TYPE – Selecting Chapter shows the notes for the current selected chapter. Selecting Topic shows all the notes within the selected Notes database.

Notes can be entered from the main verse page or from search results page. Clicking on the notes icon will launch a notes entry box. SAVE will add or append the notes to the database.

Notes Entry

This information should help in creating XML Bible Database for VerseVIEW. VerseVIEW uses XML to store the verse of the Bible and other information. The following is an example of the header for spanish_reina.xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<bible>
<fname>spanish_reina.xml</fname>
<revision>2</revision>
<title>Spanish Reina Valera</title>
<font>Arial Unicode MS</font>
<copyright>Public Domain</copyright>
<sizefactor>1</sizefactor>
 <b>
 <c>
 <v>En el principio creó Dios los cielos y la tierra.</v>
.......

The first line is a standard header. The encoding field can be changed if the text is not in UTF-8 encoding.

The “fname” field should match the name of the file.

The “revision” field is numeric and needs to be updated when new revisions are created.

The “title” field is what shows in the VerseVIEW setup screen.

The “font” field defines the font for the text. From version 4 on, this field is comma separated and the user can select the desired font from VerseVIEW.

The “copyright” field is what shows at the bottom of the presentation screen.

The “sizefactor” field is not implemented yet.

Use the “b” tag defines the books. The “c” tag defines the chapter and “v” tag defines the verse. Each of the verses are within the “v” tag.

Please feel free to add your notes and comments to improve this procedure