Local Search
The Local Search tool is useful when searching large data locations and if you wish to save searches to be run multiple times.
To launch the Local Search tool, go to:
Utilities | Local Search (
)
or Ctrl + Shift + F (
+ Shift + F on Mac)
You can choose to search across all CLC Locations or you can specify a single Location to search.
More than one search term can be added by clicking on the Add search parameters button. Multiple terms can also be added to the same field, as described below.
Click on the Search button to start the search.
Key points about using Local Search:
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For searching purposes, words are the terms on either side of a space, hyphen or underscore. The names of elements and folders are split into words when indexing.
Hyphens and underscores in query terms are stripped out. For example, the query term
coli-setis equivalent to the termcoli set. - Searches can be carried out for elements or folders containing specified terms in their names or paths, or terms contained in local (custom) attributes defined for a CLC Location.
Note: After elements have been moved within a CLC Location, the index may need to be rebuilt for that Location before running searches based on path contents.
- For each term entered, the search identifies items containing exactly the word entered, as well as items containing words starting with that term or ending with that term. For example, searching the Name field with the term
andwould find items with names like:sample1 and sample2androidorandagarland
- Searches are case insensitive.
Using Local Search for searches based on names
The examples below refer to searches where the elements with the following names are present in a CLC Location.
- E. coli reference sequence
- Broccoli sequence
- Coliform set
Search with a single term to look for any element or folder with a name containing that term.
Example 1: A search for coli would return all 3 elements listed above.
Search with two or more terms to look for any element or folder with a name containing all of those terms.
Example 2: A search for coli set would return "Coliform set" but not the other two entries listed in the earlier example.
Search with two or more words in quotes to look for any element or folder name containing those words, appearing consecutively, in the order provided. Whole words must be used within quotes, rather than partial terms.
Example 3: A search for "coli reference" would find an element called "E. coli reference sequence".
Example 4: A search for "coli sequence" would not return any of the elements in the example list. In the name "E. coli reference sequence", the words coli and sequence are not consecutive, and in "Broccoli sequence", coli is a partial term rather than a whole word.
Note: The characters *, ? and ~ are not treated as wild card characters in local searches. To use these characters as wild cards, use the advanced search functionality of Quick Search.
Saving Local Searches
Local searches can be saved (
), so that the same search can be run again easily. Saving a search saves the query, not the results.
The search you just set up can be saved by doing one of the following:
- Choose Save As... from under the File menu, or
- Click on the tab of the search view and drag and drop it into a folder in the Navigation Area.
These actions save the search query. (It does not save the search results.)
This can be useful when you run the same searches periodically.