Search

To allow quick navigation, even in a big data set, the global full-text search can find entities containing the search term in their name or aliases. It is:

• Not case sensitive, e.g. aDa lovelacE will find Ada Lovelace

• Full text, e.g. da Love will find Ada Lovelace

• Unaccented, e.g. Lovē will find Love and vice-versa

• You can use % as a placeholder, e.g. Ada L%ce will find Ada Lovelace

Additionally, a refined advanced search can be used to filter the results where more options are available:

• Only entities edited by me - show only entities which you have created or edited.

• Also search in description - searches in description and date comments

• Classes - search only in selected classes, e.g. Place

• Dates

  • This filter is only active if at least the from or to year is filled out.

  • If only a year is provide the from date will be YYYY-01-01, the to date will be YYYY-12-31

  • If only a year and a month is provided it will be the last of this month.

  • If the option Include dateless entities is checked, entities without dates will be found too.

Because entities can have up to 4 date values (time span for begin and time span for end) they will be added to the result if at least one date meets the criteria. E.g. a person that lived from 1540 to 1560 will be found when the from year value is 1550.