Search Dialog Window
Search Dialog Window is used to search for files in the entire project database.
A result of a search is displayed in the Search Results Tab.
There may be as many Search Result Tabs open at the same time as the number of searches you have made.
If you run a new search from a Search Results Tab, the tab will be reused for the new results.
General Search Options
- URL or mask: type in a URL mask to search for. For instance, *yahoo.com* will find URLs
such as http://yahoo.com/, http://www.yahoo.com/, and http://go.to/redirect?yahoo.com. If you do not provide
the URL the entire database will be searched. See description of all available wildcard characters.
- Title or mask: will limit the search to only webpages with titles matching the expression you specified.
You can use a single keyword or several keywords. You can also join the keywords with AND, OR, or NOT,
use parenthesis, and use quotation marks to search for phrases. Each keyword,
including the keywords in phrases, can include wildcard characters.
If you do not join keywords with operators AND will be assumed.
- File type: only files of the indicated file type will be searched. Type of a file is
determined at the time of retrieval based on its binary format regardless of filename extension. So you
may get files with gif extension that are actually HTML files (these are primarily 404 - Not Found HTTP errors).
- State: only the files having indicated states will be searched. For instance, you may check the Error box
to get a list of all URLs retrieved with errors for the entire project database.
- Containing text: Only the pages containing specified keywords will be returned. You can join the
keywords with AND, OR, or NOT, use parenthesis, and use quotation marks to search for phrases. Each keyword,
including the keywords in phrases, can include wildcard characters.
If you do not join keywords with operators AND will be assumed. You can use the full text search only if you have
built a full-text index. If the index is unavailable or the project database has changed since the last time
you built the index, the program will prompt you to create or rebuild the index which can take a while
depending on how large is the database and how many text and html files are there.
This will alow your search to run faster.
- Add wildcards automatically: automatically encloses
URLs you type in the URL box in asterisks. You will have
to uncheck this box if you want to search for URLs that end
with the string you typed in the URL box.
Advanced Search Options
- File Modification Date: you can search for files modified within a specified date range.
- File Download Date: you can provide a date and time range to find files downloaded within this time range only.
- Max Size or MinSize-MaxSize: you can limit your search to only files of no more than a certain size.
You can also provide a size range.
- Max Results: you can set the maximum number of returned files in case the result set will be too large.