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Report #2 (03/05/2005)

Works at 2.6.8 Beta builds 172. Searching queries and Query Builder.

Why we are doing that?

Data searching is one of the most used operations with CD catalog. Previous version of CD Bank has the lot of searching conditions - by file name, size, type, disk location etc. All of them are serving to specifying the search results. But, you had no way to combine the conditions easily or type excluding criteria's.

First time announced searching queries is a powerful and flexible way to searching data. It's similar to internet search engine queries, and takes you to the new level of catalog management.

Search by file name

For example, you have the music collection in your CD Bank catalog, and want to find the "The Long And Winding Road" song.

Previously you have only one way - type something like winding in "File name fragment" field, check the "Music" box, and get the hundreds of files, like "Winding.wav", "WinDingDon.mp3" etc.

Now you can type the familiar query, view the result, specify query to exclude unnecessary items and reduce the result size to few.

Query operators	Query builder string	Result string	Result	Logical operation
All words	long winding road	+long +winding +road	08-The Long And Winding Road.mp3	AND
One word	long winding road	long winding road	05 The Easy Road.mp3 02 Been Away Too Long.mp3 China Dreams - In The Beginning of The Silk Road.mp3 08-The Long And Winding Road.mp3 11 - So Long.txt	OR
Exact phrase	08-The Long And Winding Road.mp3	"08-The Long And Winding Road.mp3"	08-The Long And Winding Road.mp3	=
Exclude words	txt	-txt	05 The Easy Road.mp3 02 Been Away Too Long.mp3 China Dreams - In The Beginning of The Silk Road.mp3 08-The Long And Winding Road.mp3	NOT

Each element can be a text string or file mask (*.ex?).

All elements can be combining, except one - "Exact phrase" is dominant, and should be using as exclusive.

Query Builder

Query Builder called from Search window and allows you to build the search query more easily.

Results

Now CD Bank can carry out the searching task by new, outstanding way!

On Beta-test page you can download the latest Beta version with all of the new features.