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Sidebar: An OS X Quick Query TutorialClassic Quick Query
OS X Quick Query
Unlike with the Classic Quick Query, when you open the OS X Quick Query, the window increases in size to accomodate the toolbar. No more cut off forms! (Roll your mouse pointer over each image to see a full-size version.)
The Query Operator is now specified through the standard OS X query tool to select your query operator. Although backwards compatibility means we can not add new operators yet, this opens the door for us to add many new Quick Query options without creating an interface nightmare.
Collection designers: although it is not shown here, the Allow Query Bypass attribute appears as a checkbox to the right of the Quick Query elements that are shown. |
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In the Classic Quick Query, you first have to click in the field you want to search and then either select Quick Query from a menu, type its command-key equivalent or press a button on the form to bring up the Quick Query panel. Doing this causes the content of the window to move down to make room for the Quick Query panel. If you’ve removed the vertical scroll bars, the lower portion of your form is cut off and therefore impossible to use.
In the OS X Quick Query, clicking the ‘chicklet’ on the right end of the View’s title bar opens a standard OS X toolbar, revealing the new Quick Query panel. (Of course, the toolbar can still be opened by all the conventional means described above).
Once it is open, instead of having to click in a rectangle to select the field you wish to search and then select Quick Query by one of the tree methods previously described (which you still can do), you use a popup menu to select from all fields on the form that are available for searching. (Collection designers: only fields that have the Allow Query attribute checked appear in the popup menu.)
Type the information you wish to find in the search field, just like always. A nice bonus in the OS X Quick Query is the ‘plain language’ version of your query, spelled out underneath.