Searching
With scrollers, last-viewed highlighting, column selection,
and the quick search bar, it's easy to quickly find and navigate
through cages and more.
Features You Know and Love
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Searchable Columns
If you've entered it into LIMS, it can be searched for. If
you can't find the column you're looking for, let us know and
we'll point you in the right direction or add it in the next
release.
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Scrollers
Do you sometimes need to go through your search results
one by one? That can be inconvenient if you have a large number
of results, especially if it's hard to remember which one you've
just been looking at. We thought so too, so there is a
"scroller" component to most view pages. Look for it at the top
of the page, and use it to go to the Next or Previous object in
your most recent search results. It even tells you which search
result you're currently looking at.
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Search Row Highlight Recall
Scrollers are great, but what if you need to view objects out of
order? Scrolling around past things you're not interested in is
a waste of time. But going back to the search page can be
confusing, because it can be difficult to locate the last thing
you clicked on. What if the search page showed which result you
were just viewing? Well then, you'd be able to quickly orient
yourself and work efficiently. LIMS highlights the row for the
result you most recently were viewing, even if you used
the scroller to get there from another result, so that you
never lose your place.
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Search Column Selection
Let's face it, some search pages can have a lot of
columns. They're all useful in some situations, but not in
others. With the addition of so many more searchable columns in
LIMS, things could get cramped. Instead of having little tiny
search results or scrolling pages sideways off the screen, we've
added the ability for you to select which columns you want to
see whenever you use the searching pages.
Note that the columns selected for display are the same as
the columns selected for searching. Otherwise, you could have
results displayed with no obvious reason for them to appear
there.
Note also that your selected columns will remain selected
for that type of search until you logout. This can save you some
time if you're going to different areas of the site and want to
come back and do a similar search.
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Quick Search
Sometimes you know exactly what you're looking for and
just want to go directly there from whatever page you're on.
Maybe you need a person's contact information, or to see your
AUP, or to view a particular cage. Simply put that information
into the Quick Search box at the top of the screen and press
enter. If you've entered something with only one result, like a
cage barcode for instance, you'll be taken directly to that
result's view page. If you've entered something with multiple
results, like a common first name or a partial mouseline name,
you'll go to a page with all the results listed by object type
(ie. allele, mouseline, person, etc). |