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More => Old Versions => Media Jukebox => Topic started by: Soundman on October 25, 2002, 07:06:31 pm

Title: Restrict Search to a subtree in Media Library
Post by: Soundman on October 25, 2002, 07:06:31 pm
Hello.

I love the powerful Media Library and the powerful Search bar in Media Jukebox.  But how do I get the two to work together? If I have a particular node in the Media Library tree selected, I want to do a search, restricting the results to only what is in that node, but as soon as I press CTRL-F, it jumps to the root "Media Library" node which includes the whole database! NOTE: Quick Search (CTRL-Q) is not sufficient.  Any help?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Restrict Search to a subtree in Media Library
Post by: Cmagic on October 26, 2002, 12:27:15 pm
Hi,

You can't really restrict the search for a single node in your library tree.
What you can do is simply to add a keyword for that node in your search query.
For example if your looking for a song with say 'love' in the the tree node genre/artist
subtree ''jazz'' you will simply enter 'genre=jazz name=love'.

Use the (...) button next to the search text box to find a combination of keywords and rules
that will match the view scheme in your Media Library tree.

In the hope that this will help ...



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Title: Re: Restrict Search to a subtree in Media Library
Post by: Soundman on October 28, 2002, 04:36:21 pm
Cmagic,

Thanks for your help with this.  I think it's is rather inconvenient that Search does cannot simply restrict to the current subtree.  This would make a good feature for MJ9 (Hint).

Soundman
Title: Re: Restrict Search to a subtree in Media Library
Post by: nila on October 29, 2002, 03:56:01 pm
You should probably suggest this in the v9 forum.

As a possible easy way to suggest it there could be a button that was on the right click for nodes that:

'Enter this node as a search string'
or something like that that automatically built the search string for that node for you.