User Guide

SEARCHING AND SORTING COLLECTIONS
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IMAGEAXS PRO MACINTOSH USER’S GUIDE
To begin a search involving more than one keyword for a collection:
STEP 1 Select one or more keywords in the Keyword List.
STEP 2 Click the Keyword Search button in the upper right corner of the
Keyword List.
The Search dialog box appears, with the selected
keyword(s) displayed as a basis for the search.
STEP 3 Choose a connector ( and or or ) for each keyword that is
followed by another search term (see “Using And/Or in Complex
Searches” on page 10-4).
STEP 4 Click Search, or add terms other than keywords by clicking More
and skipping to Step 3 in the section below.
SEARCHES BASED
ON FIELD DATA
AND/OR OTHER
C
HARACTERISTICS
You can use the Search dialog box to conduct an almost infinite
variety of searches based on shared field data, keywords, and/or
other characteristics in almost any combination. (More complex
searches, however, may take longer for ImageAXS Pro to complete.)
To search based on shared data in a field or other characteristic from
anywhere in ImageAXS Pro:
STEP 1 Select Search from the Record menu, or click the Search button
(indicated by binoculars) in the button panel.
The Search dialog box appears.
STEP 2 In the Search dialog box, click Open if you have previously
saved the settings for the search you want to perform.
Select the search settings you want from the standard file
dialog box that appears.
STEP 3 Select a field or other data category (Description, Keyword,
Online, or Pathname) from the left pull-down menu in the
Search dialog box.
For faster searching, drag keywords from the Keyword List
for the collection (instead of typing in the keyword).
NOTE
Dragging a keyword from the Keyword List makes searches faster because
each keyword in the list contains information about its position and whether
it is part of a keyword family.
If you type the name of a keyword instead as a text string, ImageAXS Pro
searches the entire Keyword List for keywords containing that text string.
This process can be very time-consuming for collections with large keyword
lists.
Search
button