Chapter 3 The Tariscope program
3.5 Working with views
3.5.6 Search of information in a view. Bookmarks
To find a desired information in a view of calls, select in the menu: Edit → Find. The Find window appears as shown in Figure 3.5.9.
Figure 3.5.9
If, before opening the window, the focus was located in a required column, then the name of that column will be automatically displayed in the Search in list. In Figure 3.5.6 the focus was located in the Call type column. If you want to search for in all columns, select the All value in the Search in list.
In the Sample box, type a whole value or its part.
To search for a value that completely corresponds to the value of the Sample box, select the Whole word check box.
If you want the search to be case sensitive, select the Match case check box.
To execute the search in the reverse direction, select the Reverse direction check box.
Click Next, if you wish to find the first value that corresponds to the desired value.
If you wish to get all records that contains the desired value, click on the right part of the Next button, and in the appeared menu, select the All item. The Search view appears where the results of the search will be displayed. An example of the Search view is shown in Figure 3.5.10.
Figure 3.5.10
The Search view contains three columns:
- Row. Displays the row number, which contains the search result.
- Column. Displays the column name that contains the search result.
- Text. Displays the value that corresponds to the search conditions.
Select a desired result in the Text column and, click on the Show row icon on the toolbar of the view or, double-click on the selected row. In the view for calls the focus moves to the corresponding entry.
Another option for searching information in the views is a filtering. This feature allows you to select only those records of calls that meet the conditions of the filtering. It is the most powerful search engine, which searches for on various combinations of view fields. The filtering is discussed in the next section.
If you know a line number of a desired record, this information displays on the right side of the bottom line of the program window, then to move to the line, select in the program menu: Edit → Go to. The Go to window appears. Enter the line number and click OK. Focus will move to the desired line.
Bookmarks
If you have found the required row in the table of calls, you can set a bookmark on this row for a quick search of this row in future. To set bookmark on a row, select the row. In the program menu, select: Edit → Bookmark. Or, right-click and in the appeared menu, select the Bookmark item. The font color for this row will become blue.
Searching for a desired bookmark can be done in two ways:
- Right-click anywhere in the table and in the appeared menu, select the Next bookmark or Previous bookmark item.
- In the program menu, select: Edit → Next bookmark or Previous bookmark.
To delete a bookmark, move to this row, right-click and in the appeared menu, select the Bookmark item.
To delete all bookmarks, select in the program menu: Edit → Clear bookmarks.
