Sometimes locate simply does a search. Doing Locate > Album in my audio view is one example. It puts the album name in the search box. In this case, it's right to not change the location text since you're at the same location.
Wow, makes a whole lot more sense now, thanks Matt. So the
Locate tool can sometimes be viewed as a shortcut for MC's Search engine, in which case it "auto-fills" the Search box with data from the current selection. It clarifies matters for me to keep an eye on the Search box when using
Locate for the cases cited above, both to confirm the selection criteria, as well as to "x-out"/clear the search. I never made this association before.
The original tab name governs how the search result is displayed (maintains the "MC location"). But the new tab name sometimes retains the original tab text unchanged, and other times indicates the search path. This apparent inconsistency is what originally confused me (and still seems less than optimal), leading to this post.
I would like to see an asterisk "*" or other distinguishing symbol directly in the tab name as a warning/heads-up whenever the view is filtered with respect to the original tab, and hence does not show the complete named view. When the view tab text itself changes to indicate a filtered view, then additional indicator is not needed.
Locate deserves a more detailed description in the Wiki.
5/13/2023 & 5/18/2023 Update for clarity (hopefully).
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Topic: Feature Request: Update name of the new tab generated from a Locate request (Read 862 times)