User's Manual Instruction Manual
Table Of Contents
- Copyright
- Disclaimer
- Improvement Requests
- Regional Contacts
- User Manuals on EVS Website
- 1. Introduction
- 2. User Interface
- 2.1 OPENING OF DATABASE EXPLORER
- 2.2 OVERVIEW OF THE DATABASE EXPLORER
- 2.3 DATABASE EXPLORER TOOLBAR
- 2.4 TREE VIEW
- 2.5 ELEMENT GRID AND SEARCH OPTIONS
- 2.6 STATUS BAR
- Clips, Clip Elements and Nearline Files
- 4. Clips View
- 4.1 INTRODUCTION
- 4.2 UNDERSTANDING CLIP STRUCTURE ON AN EVS VIDEO SERVER
- 4.3 VIRTUAL LSM ID / REAL LSM ID
- 4.4 CLIP TREE STRUCTURE
- 4.5 CLIP DATA COLUMNS
- 4.6 CLIP CONTEXTUAL MENU
- 4.7 DELETING A CLIP
- 4.8 EDITING A CLIP
- 4.9 COPYING OR MOVING A CLIP
- 4.10 SENDING A CLIP TO A DESTINATION TARGET
- 4.10.1 Send To Menu
- 4.10.2 How to Send a Clip to the Default Archive
- 4.10.3 How to Send a Clip to a Destination Folder (Destination Target)
- 4.10.4 How to Add a Destination Target
- 4.10.5 How to Delete a Destination Target
- 4.10.6 How to Send a Clip to an XStore Workstation (Running CleanEdit Applications)
- 4.10.7 How to Send a Clip to an Avid System Using the AVID Transfer Manager
- 4.10.8 Transfer Monitoring
- 4.11 HOW TO MODIFY THE T/C IN OR THE DATE OF A CLIP
- 4.12 PUBLISHING A CLIP
- 4.13 LINKING CLIPS
- 5. Clip Elements View
- 6. Playlists View
- 7. Timelines View
- 8. Bins View
- 9. Logs View
- 9.1 INTRODUCTION
- 9.2 LOGS TREE STRUCTURE
- 9.3 HOW TO CREATE A LOGS DIRECTORY
- 9.4 HOW TO RENAME A LOGS DIRECTORY
- 9.5 HOW TO DELETE A LOGS DIRECTORY
- 9.6 HOW TO PUBLISH A LOG DIRECTORY OR A LOG SHEET
- 9.7 HOW TO VIEW THE LOG DIRECTORY OR LOG SHEET PROPERTIES
- 9.8 HOW TO DELETE A LOG DIRECTORY OR A LOG SHEET
- 9.9 HOW TO EXPORT A LOG SHEET FROM THE TREE
- 9.10 HOW TO EXPORT A LOGGING PROFILE FROM THE TREE
- 9.11 PRINTING A LOG SHEET
- 9.12 LOG EVENT COLUMNS
- 10. Media Files View
- 11. Searching the Database
- 12. Loading and Playing Media from the Database Explorer
- 13. Database Explorer Shortcuts

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User Manual
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Part 3: Browsing
EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011
Issue 5.9.B
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11.5.1 SEARCH FIELDS TYPES
Different types of search fields exist:
• free text fields: no button is available next to the field, e.g. Name field.
• field with an option list : the button is displayed on the right of the
field, e.g. Level field.
• field with a complex filter button on the right of the field giving access
to a Select Filter Condition window.
11.5.2 GRID FILTER RULES
The string that you enter in the free text field of a grid filter is analyzed according
to the following set of rules:
Search
String
Search Result Logical
equivalent
Yellow card Searches for the words yellow and card in the
corresponding column.
“Yellow” AND
“card”
Yellow | card Searches for yellow or card in the
corresponding column.
“Yellow” OR
“card”
"Yellow card" Searches for exact matches of "Yellow card" in
the corresponding column. Between the quotes,
all characters are considered as characters and
not operators or wildcards.
”Yellow card”
card* Searches for “card” at the beginning of a word. “card”*
*card* Searches for all words that include “card”. *”card”*
11.5.3 HOW TO PERFORM A SEARCH THROUGH GRID FILTER FIELDS
To enter search values in the Grid Filter fields, proceed as follows:
1. Select the tree branch you wish to perform a search on.
2. Show the columns you wish to perform a search on.
3. Display the Grid Filter bar by clicking the Show/Hide Grid Filter Bar button
over the grid.










