Search
- See Indexing in EMu for details about the indexing methods used to search records.
- If an institution has extremely large EMu databases, it may be necessary to limit a search to complete within a certain amount of time or to return no more than a specified number of records. To set the maximum search time and / or records retrieved see Searching options.
- A detailed examination of EMu's support for Unicode, and how it impacts searching, is available in Support for Unicode.
There are many modules in EMu and each module has multiple pages and each page can have numerous fields. Fields can record text as well as multimedia (images, video, audio). EMu has a powerful search engine that can search across multiple fields and modules within one operation. Taking advantage of Boolean operators (AND, NOT, OR), wildcards (^, $, *, ?), and a range of other special characters (@ for phonetic search; ~ for stemming, etc.) can greatly fine-tune your search.
By default, when a module is first opened it is in Search mode. Unless you are adding a new record, the first thing you'll probably want to do is search your existing records. With EMu it is possible to:
- Run a search over multiple fields in a single operation.
- Modify a previous search by adding or deleting search terms.
- Perform an additional search and combine the results of this second (or third or nth) search with those of the previous search using one of the following relationships:
Merge (OR)
Intersect (AND)
Subtract (NOT)
- Nominate a Sort to be run automatically following a search.
The most frequently used search commands are:
Screen mode |
Ribbon Tab |
Option |
Icon |
Keyboard shortcut |
Description |
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Search |
Home |
Search |
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Run a search. The module automatically enters Display mode. |
Display |
Home |
New |
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Return to Search mode, clearing all values from fields except for any default search values. |
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Display |
Home |
Previous |
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Return to Search mode keeping any values that were entered in the last search. |
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Search |
Edit |
Clear>Clear All |
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Clear values from all fields, including any default values (though not from read-only fields). |