search Search By Text

This tool can search all saved tours, markers and waypoints. It can be opened from the menu Directory/Search or with the keyboard shortcut <Ctrl>+K.

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Search view 

 

Linux

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Search with Linux

The UI for the search feature is using an embedded web browser in Windows. This works very good when the displayed webpage is not loaded from a url as it is done in the tour blog.

When the displayed webpage is loaded from a url, the whole app will crash in Linux. This is the reason why the search view must be used with an external web browser. Any actions, e.g. select or edit a tour are still working, only the UI is not embedded in the app.

 

Windows

The search feature can be used with an external browser, this action search-external shows the web page url.

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Search with an external browser

 

 

Keyboard Shortcuts

<Ctrl> + K

Open search view from any point in the application.

 

 

Actions

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Info

 Common search info.
 

Search text

Text which is searched, it can contain * or ? wildcards and other features which are supported by the Lucene query engine.

Lucene is the search engine which is used internally.

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Start searching

Starts searching with the entered search text or press the <Enter> key in the search text field.
 

Search state

Displays

  • Number of search results

  • Time for searching

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Search Options

See below.

 

 

Search Options

The search options dialog is opened automatically when the mouse is hovering this options icon or can be opened with the <space> key when the options icon has the input focus.

 

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Search Result

Select a tour

Propably since using Eclipse 4 platform, selecting a tour with the mouse do not work anymore.

 

Workaround

  • Select a tour with the mouse
  • Use SPACE key to select the "selected" tour, this will show the tour e.g. in the map/tour chart
  • Navigate with cursor up/down keys

 

Select multiple tours

Multiple selections can be done by holding the <Shift> key and navigating with cursor up/down keys.

 

Keyboard Shortcuts

<Ctrl> + A

Select all

 

 

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Fulltext Issues

When there are issues in the fulltext search, e.g. search results are duplicated, use the following procedure to solve it:

  • Close MyTourbook
  • Delete folder C:\Users\YOUR_NAME\mytourbook\derby-database\lucene-index\
  • Restart MyTourbook

 

The next time when the fulltext index is needed, it will be recreated.

 

When hacking MyTourbook, it is always a good idea to make a BACKUP before hacking it

 

 

 

 

 

 

This page is updated for version 23.3