DATABASE SEARCH HELP





1) Section Familiarization




There are two sections to the search feature page ... SEARCH CONTROL and SEARCH RESULTS

SEARCH CONTROL is the section where search critera are controlled

SEARCH RESULTS is the section where the results of the SUBMITted search will appear

2) SEARCH CONTROL



SEARCH CONTROL is divided into 4 sections KEYWORD SEARCH
... ATTRIBUTE SEARCH ... SEARCH ACTIONS ... and ... OUTPUT ORDER CONTROL

A) KEYWORD SEARCH

   Like any other search engine .. this search allows one or more keywords to be used to restrict the output results to those containing each of the
     keywords specifiied (an AND search) ... A keyword search can be used in combination with an attribute search

   EXAMPLE:

B)
ATTRIBUTE SEARCH


   This section allows one or more specific restrictions (by column) to be specified to limit the output

    EXAMPLE:

 

       This example limits OPACITY to Clear (C) and Translucent (T) dice ...
                                     COLOR STYLE to BOREALIS
                                     PIP COLOR to BLACK

C)
SEARCH ACTIONS


   SUBMIT - This button submits the search to the database which hopefully produces useful results

   CLEAR - This button clears the choices made in either the
KEYWORD SEARCH and ATTRIBUTE SEARCH ... it does not undo previous searches

   PERMA LINK - This button saves a specific search as a URL .. so that it can be directly linked or bookmarked

   RESET - This button removes all search critera and returns to the base search page

   HOME - This button returns the user to the base page for DiceCollector.com

   HELP  - Leads to this page

D)
OUTPUT ORDER CONTROL


   This section allows the user to control the order in which rows are returned ... Up to 3 different orders may be specified





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