1. Overview
Using the TimeCore Search engine it is possible to look for sessions using any combination of the Project, Activity and Details fields. You can restrict your search to a given date range or examine all your data. Finally, you can publish the results by exporting to one of the various formats.
Search Criteria
You can search on the Project, Activity and Detail fields. Please note that unless you use wildcard characters TimeCore looks for a direct match.
Example.
Let's say you want to list all sessions which have the word 'meeting'. Simply typing 'meeting' into the Details field will not work because TimeCore will be looking for all Sessions where the details is exactly 'meeting'. Instead you tell TimeCore to look for sessions where the details field contains the required word. This is achieved using the asterisk wildcard character ('*') by typing '*meeting*' instead.
2. Searching Specifics
You use wildcard characters as placeholders for other characters when you are specifying a value you want to find and you:
· Know only part of the value.
· Want to find values that start with a specific letter or match a certain pattern.
The following table shows the wildcard characters that can be used in TimeCore.
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Description |
Example |
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* |
Matches any number of characters. It can be used as the first or last character in the character string. |
wh* finds what, white, and why |
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? |
Matches any single alphabetic character. |
B?ll finds ball, bell, and bill |
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[ ] |
Matches any single character within the brackets. |
B[ae]ll finds ball and bell but not bill |
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! |
Matches any character not in the brackets. |
b[!ae]ll finds bill and bull but not ball or bell |
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- |
Matches any one of a range of characters. You must specify the range in ascending order (A to Z, not Z to A). |
b[a-c]d finds bad, bbd, and bcd |
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# |
Matches any single numeric character. |
1#3 finds 103, 113, 123 |
Notes
· When using wildcard characters to search for other wildcard characters such as an asterisk (*), question mark (?), number sign (#), opening bracket ([), or hyphen (-), you must enclose the item you're searching for in brackets. If you're searching for an exclamation point (!) or a closing bracket (]), you don't need to enclose it in brackets.
For example, to search for a question mark, type [?] in the Find dialog box. If you're searching for a hyphen and other characters simultaneously, place the hyphen before or after all the other characters inside the brackets. (However, if you have an exclamation point (!) after the opening bracket, place the hyphen after the exclamation point.)
· You can't search for the opening and closing brackets ([ ]) together because this is interpreted as a zero-length string . You must enclose the opening and closing brackets in brackets ([[ ]]).
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