Tutorial #2 - Searching and Sorting
Movie Label offers a variety of ways when it
comes to searching, sorting and filtering. We
feel that one of the most important tasks of our
program is to enable you to locate and display
your movies in an easy, yet powerful way. The
more you use Movie Label, the more you will
discover about the powerful features of the
program.
Fast and Easy Sorting
The easiest (and fastest) way to sort is to
click the header of a column and Movie Label
will sort the view by that field
instantaneously. This is equivalent to choosing
one of the fields from the Sort By sub-menu (in
the Edit- or right click menu). Clicking the
same column header a second time, will reverse
the sort to descending sort order.
Fast and Easy Searching
The easiest way of searching in Music Label
is by using Instant Search (that can be found in
the header of the view). It will search the most
commonly used fields in your database for a text
that you specify.
Expert Tip: You can specify the fields that
Instant Search use by clicking the '...'-button
in the Instant Search box.
Using Common Searches
Another real easy way of searching your database
is using Common Searches which lets you search a
number of common fields fast and easy. To show
Common Searches; click the Getting Started
header and choose Common Searches (you also find
it toolbar).
Advanced Searching
The Advanced Search enables you create a
more refined search to narrow down your search
result as much as possible. You can choose
exactly what field to search, how to search it
and do this in three levels.
If you choose 'contains' as operator you can
type e.g. 'a', and all items that contains 'a'
anywhere in the chosen field will be included in
the search result. If you want to be even more
precise you can use the 'like' operator. You can
then type 'a*' and everything that begins with
an 'a' will be displayed.
Fast Filters and the
Filter Builder
 Columns
that have a drop-down button in the header can
quickly be filtered by simply clicking that
button and choosing what value to filter by.
Doing so will automatically show the Filter
Builder at the bottom of the view (it can also
be shown by choosing it from the View-menu).
Closing the Filter Builder by clicking the red
close-button, will clear all filters.
If you click the Customize-button in the Filter
Builder, you can build advanced filters. You can
even save them to a file for later use, or share
them with a friend. The Filter Builder enables
you to build more advanced filters than ever
before possible in Movie Label.
Combining Searches with
the Filter Builder
You can combine the searches with the Filter
Builder since it builds its result on the items
made available in the search. This enables you
to search within a search which is a really
powerful feature.
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