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