Search - Advanced Criteria Options
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Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Dear colleagues,
I am trying to use Advanced Criteria on Search Options with more than one sentence on "all of these words" field on find text with. For example I can have a set of sentences
"type of mouse"
"monitoring system"
"air core"
1. How to search in PDF-XChange Editor for these 3 sentences above at once? How to search more than one sentence as above at once?
Due to huge documents with hundreds of pages our company needs to search a set of sentences at once, so after that, we will highlight, save etc.
2. If we don´t have this possibility or feature, is there any other way to do this?
We have licensed all tools from you.
Thank you very much,
Glauco Cangane
R&D Manager
I am trying to use Advanced Criteria on Search Options with more than one sentence on "all of these words" field on find text with. For example I can have a set of sentences
"type of mouse"
"monitoring system"
"air core"
1. How to search in PDF-XChange Editor for these 3 sentences above at once? How to search more than one sentence as above at once?
Due to huge documents with hundreds of pages our company needs to search a set of sentences at once, so after that, we will highlight, save etc.
2. If we don´t have this possibility or feature, is there any other way to do this?
We have licensed all tools from you.
Thank you very much,
Glauco Cangane
R&D Manager
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Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Hi Glauco,
thanks for the post and welcome to the Tracker Forums.
I see the challenge here. I can search accurately for a phrase, but I cannot search for "phrase A OR phrase B OR "phrase C" which is, I think, what you are wanting?
I am forced to do three searches.
Now this does open a bit of a can of worms regards the boolean... Is it your intention to search for documents that have any or all of the phrases? So do you want to find documents that have "phrase 1 AND phrase 2" for example or either as in "phrase 1 OR phrase2"?
This then gets further complicated when you have 3 or more phrases.
I am trying to better understand what your need it here so that I can have the appropriate discussion with the dev team to see if this is possible.
regards
thanks for the post and welcome to the Tracker Forums.
I see the challenge here. I can search accurately for a phrase, but I cannot search for "phrase A OR phrase B OR "phrase C" which is, I think, what you are wanting?
I am forced to do three searches.
Now this does open a bit of a can of worms regards the boolean... Is it your intention to search for documents that have any or all of the phrases? So do you want to find documents that have "phrase 1 AND phrase 2" for example or either as in "phrase 1 OR phrase2"?
This then gets further complicated when you have 3 or more phrases.
I am trying to better understand what your need it here so that I can have the appropriate discussion with the dev team to see if this is possible.
regards
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Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Hi Paul,
Yes, search for "phrase A OR phrase B OR phrase C" is exactly what we are wanting without the need to do three searches.
We have technical specifications of the customers with more than 200 hundreds pages and with this functionality I already get marked or highlighted the most important sentences to make our designs and engineering. Maybe a simple file (txt, csv or any other) with simple phrases or any better and fast idea your DEV Team can have. Search for any of the phrases OR not AND.
If this be possible we save USD millions per year on Engineering efforts.
Please let us know if we have any possibility or any more details you may need from my side.
My Kindest Regards,
Glauco Cangane
Yes, search for "phrase A OR phrase B OR phrase C" is exactly what we are wanting without the need to do three searches.
We have technical specifications of the customers with more than 200 hundreds pages and with this functionality I already get marked or highlighted the most important sentences to make our designs and engineering. Maybe a simple file (txt, csv or any other) with simple phrases or any better and fast idea your DEV Team can have. Search for any of the phrases OR not AND.
If this be possible we save USD millions per year on Engineering efforts.
Please let us know if we have any possibility or any more details you may need from my side.
My Kindest Regards,
Glauco Cangane
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Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Thanks for that Glauco
I've passed the request on to the dev team. Let's see what they come back with.
I've passed the request on to the dev team. Let's see what they come back with.
Best regards
Paul O'Rorke
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Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Hi again Glauco,
Good news. It appears this can already be done.
What I learned today is that these three advanced search criteria fields each represent a boolean.
One should actually be able to combine the logic of these operators (somewhat). Adding full boolean options between search phrases is a huge task I am told.
I am keen to hear if this gives you what you are looking for.
Paul
Good news. It appears this can already be done.
What I learned today is that these three advanced search criteria fields each represent a boolean.
- all of these words is AND
- any of these words is OR
- none of these words is NOT
One should actually be able to combine the logic of these operators (somewhat). Adding full boolean options between search phrases is a huge task I am told.
I am keen to hear if this gives you what you are looking for.
Paul
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Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Hi Paul,
Yes, it´ is a very good news. It is what we were expecting and looking for.
My only remaining questions are regarding to licenses.
1. How can I check the amount of licenses for my organization?
2. I would like to know if there are limitations since we would like to use this functionality in engineering from different manufacturing plants. How can I check that?
We were ABB (Asea Brown Boveri) company name, now we are Hitachi Energy since last October.
Regards,
Glauco
Yes, it´ is a very good news. It is what we were expecting and looking for.
My only remaining questions are regarding to licenses.
1. How can I check the amount of licenses for my organization?
2. I would like to know if there are limitations since we would like to use this functionality in engineering from different manufacturing plants. How can I check that?
We were ABB (Asea Brown Boveri) company name, now we are Hitachi Energy since last October.
Regards,
Glauco
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Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Hello, glauco.cangane
You will find a list of your licenses by signing into the account which they are assigned to. If you need more details than that, I will need to ask you to email sales@pdf-xchange.com so that they can help you go over all those items. Account and license details for a company are not something we go over on the public forums.
Kind regards,
You will find a list of your licenses by signing into the account which they are assigned to. If you need more details than that, I will need to ask you to email sales@pdf-xchange.com so that they can help you go over all those items. Account and license details for a company are not something we go over on the public forums.
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Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Where these advanced searches are stored?
I mean, I would like to save a lot of advanced criteria searches for more than my machine, for whole engineering department. Is there any way to do this? Get saved advanced criteria and share with others. It would be very helpful instead of each user must make by your own.
Let me know if there are possibilities.
Regards,
Glauco
I mean, I would like to save a lot of advanced criteria searches for more than my machine, for whole engineering department. Is there any way to do this? Get saved advanced criteria and share with others. It would be very helpful instead of each user must make by your own.
Let me know if there are possibilities.
Regards,
Glauco
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Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Hello, glauco.cangane
These settings are included in an "export" of the Editor settings. To mograte these options, click "File > manage settings > export settings" Then from the menu that appears, ensure that "program options > common" is enabled.
Anyone else who imports that settings file will then have your saved "search criteria" included in their editor.
Kind regards,
These settings are included in an "export" of the Editor settings. To mograte these options, click "File > manage settings > export settings" Then from the menu that appears, ensure that "program options > common" is enabled.
Anyone else who imports that settings file will then have your saved "search criteria" included in their editor.
Kind regards,
Dan McIntyre - Support Technician
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Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Hello,
Is it possible to merge saved "search criteria" from one user with saved "search criteria" from another user?
Thank you,
Glauco
Is it possible to merge saved "search criteria" from one user with saved "search criteria" from another user?
Thank you,
Glauco
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Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Another question: search, find and advanced search works when a document is protected?
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Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Hello, glauco.cangane
It is not possible to merge saved search criteria, you would simply have two separate searches in that case.
As for search functions in protected documents, yes, in most cases the search/find functions themselves will work, but the annotation function within the search pane often will not.
Kind regards,
It is not possible to merge saved search criteria, you would simply have two separate searches in that case.
As for search functions in protected documents, yes, in most cases the search/find functions themselves will work, but the annotation function within the search pane often will not.
Kind regards,
Dan McIntyre - Support Technician
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Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
I'll use this thread so as not to create a new one .
Where can I find the advanced search tutorial, what are the options/capabilities, etc.?
Below I will describe my need based on the table below:
I need to select e.g. B11-B14 at the same time, I tried to enter B1* or B1? in the search field. Unfortunately, it didn't work.
In the next search, I want to find a text containing 100, I type *100* and unfortunately it does not find anything either.
Are there any ways to get my needs?
Where can I find the advanced search tutorial, what are the options/capabilities, etc.?
Below I will describe my need based on the table below:
I need to select e.g. B11-B14 at the same time, I tried to enter B1* or B1? in the search field. Unfortunately, it didn't work.
In the next search, I want to find a text containing 100, I type *100* and unfortunately it does not find anything either.
Are there any ways to get my needs?
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Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Hello KoLoLoLo,
Could you please tell me what version is your PDF Editor?
You can see this information in the PDF Editor's Help -> About menu.
Also, could you please send me one of the files you are having this issue with?
Regards.
Could you please tell me what version is your PDF Editor?
You can see this information in the PDF Editor's Help -> About menu.
Also, could you please send me one of the files you are having this issue with?
Regards.
Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
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I updated yesterday to the latest 9.5 365.0.
By the way, I will ask if there are any help in other languages or only in ENG?
I updated yesterday to the latest 9.5 365.0.
By the way, I will ask if there are any help in other languages or only in ENG?
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Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Hi,
1) More info about Search can be found in the online manual (only available in English):
https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxe9/search_ed_2.html
2) For as far as I know, wildcard characters can not be used
3) The Search function does not seem to work correctly anymore in the current build 365.0
See: https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?t=39607
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1) More info about Search can be found in the online manual (only available in English):
https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxe9/search_ed_2.html
2) For as far as I know, wildcard characters can not be used
3) The Search function does not seem to work correctly anymore in the current build 365.0
See: https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?t=39607
Regards.
Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Are you working on adding this functionality?Willy Van Nuffel wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 8:24 pm Hi,
2) For as far as I know, wildcard characters can not be used
Regards.
Many programs have a search option where "*" replaces any string and "?" any character.
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Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Hi KoLoLoLo
2) That is rather a question for @Tracker Support.
I am just an ordinary "user" as you are, no ties with Tracker Software, trying to help.
Regards.
2) That is rather a question for @Tracker Support.
I am just an ordinary "user" as you are, no ties with Tracker Software, trying to help.
Regards.
Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
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It would be nice if we have a regex search ....
It would be nice if we have a regex search ....
It's impossible to lead us astray for we don't care even to choose the way.
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Re: Search - Advanced Criteria Options
Hello everyone,
I can confirm that in the latest build, advanced search has a bug that is causing it to not return any results under certain conditions.
This issue will be resolved in our next build, which will be released before the end of the year.
Regarding wildcards, I will forward this request to our developers for consideration.
#6325: FR: Adding the ability to use wildcard characters in the search tool
Regards.
I can confirm that in the latest build, advanced search has a bug that is causing it to not return any results under certain conditions.
This issue will be resolved in our next build, which will be released before the end of the year.
Regarding wildcards, I will forward this request to our developers for consideration.
#6325: FR: Adding the ability to use wildcard characters in the search tool
Regards.
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That's great to hear.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will work.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will work.
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Hello Dimitar!
What about adding regex search as you added in other places?
What about adding regex search as you added in other places?
It's impossible to lead us astray for we don't care even to choose the way.
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Thanks for the suggestion OVG.
It will be considered, but I cannot promise that it will be implemented.
I will keep you posted on any updates.
Regards.
It will be considered, but I cannot promise that it will be implemented.
I will keep you posted on any updates.
Regards.
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Many thanks!
It's impossible to lead us astray for we don't care even to choose the way.
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