UR Metadata and Searching

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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Mar 11, 2007 at 04:14 PM

I am trying to figure out the various ways to use Ultra Recall’s metadata and user defined keywords, and have one question.

I suspect there is an obvious and easy answer to this; unfortunately, I have never found anything particularly easy or obvious about UR’ search template.

Daly

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Mar 11, 2007 at 04:53 PM

Daly

I try my best to explain you my way:

1. Open a new tab and press Ctrl + Shift + F
2. Klick on the button ‘Advanced >>’
3. UR shows you now an empty search pane or the previous search
4. Choose the field you want to search on the column ‘Item/Attributes’
5. Choose the appropriate item in the list ‘Comparison’
6. Enter the value so search in the column ‘Value’. You can use wildcards and other search criterias in that field
7. Now click on the right key of your mouse. From the opening window choose ‘Insert’
8. UR adds a new line
9. The default value in the column ‘Relationship’ is ‘and’. You can change that to ‘or’
10. Now you can to the same from step 4 to 6
11. The order of the search criterias can be critical.
12. You can even move a search criteria on the right (see example below). This allows to create quite complex hierachical search queries.
13. Best of all: You can save a search query in UR for later use.
14. Important: Even I am working the the advanced search in UR I still feel I don’t use all the possibilities.

Here and example:
I want to run a search to list all tasks related to Siebel (Siebel proejct names start with SP) and which are either of status Open, Postponed or Not defined.

Relationship Item/Attribute Comparison Value
Project matches wildcard SP*
and Status equals to Open
or Status equals to Not defiend
or Status equals to Postponed

UR provides one of the most sophisticated search features in the outliner market. But I agree with you Daly that it is not easy to figure out how it really works and to see the potential. I propose to play around with it to get a feeling of it. Or you could write to Kinook and ask nicely for a tutorial.

I hope these lines can help you to remove the clouds from UR.

Dominik

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Mar 11, 2007 at 04:55 PM

Daly,

Please note that in my example in my previous post the two lines beginning with ‘or…’ need to be moved on the right.

Dominik

Posted by Kenneth Rhee
Mar 11, 2007 at 04:56 PM

Daly de Gagne wrote:
>I am trying to figure out the various ways to use Ultra Recall’s metadata and user
>defined keywords, and have one question.
> >I suspect there is an obvious and easy
>answer to this; unfortunately, I have never found anything particularly easy or
>obvious about UR’ search template.
> >Daly

UR offers one of the most powerful search capabilities I’ve seen in a program. It’s also super fast.

You can pretty much search on any metadata or combination of metadata using the advanced search feature.

Perhaps if you are more clear about where you are bogging down, that might be helpful in giving you a hand.

Ken

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Mar 11, 2007 at 04:58 PM

Daly,

Sorry for posting again.
But the example above is not showing up correctly.
If you would like to have a screenshot of the example just send an email to: dhantlr@gmail.com

Dominik

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