click and search: exclude location

[yusef88]

help file says:

Location: Here you can state the location to be searched. Leave the field empty to always search the current location. Enter * (asterisk) to search the whole PC.

what if the user want to exclude a location?

[highend]

Then he reads the next line and finds the link for all the supported search switches...

[yusef88]

the /excl= switch doesn't work in location field so it is a wish

[highend]

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[yusef88]

you're right but if the search pattern itself is a switch this won't work
maybe this is an excessive request so thank you anyways

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/types={:Video}

[highend]

Mh?

Start dir: R:\test

Files:
R:\test\1\1.avi
R:\test\2\2.avi
R:\test\3\3.avi

Location for the search category: /excl=R:\test\2

Search pattern for the item: /types={:Video}

Result:
R:\test\1\1.avi
R:\test\3\3.avi

What am I missing here?

[yusef88]

try go to the drive root or my computer and perform the search because here it gives me all file types in the results

[highend]

try go to the drive root or my computer and perform the search because here it gives me all file types in the results

Probably a bug, let's see what Don has to say...

[admin]

I cannot reproduce this when I click the "Video" item in the Catalog: Items are filtered by /types={:Video} as expected.

However, when I check the "Video" item in the Catalog then the /types switch is ignored. This might be unexpected at first sight, but it makes sense since this way a Boolean combination of all checked items in the category is used for the search, and individual item switches have to be ignored here.

So IMO it's alright as it is.

[highend]

I can reproduce that behavior with the current beta

If the search category uses an /excl=<some path>
switch in the Location, than clicking (and not checking it)
on the item (with e.g. Pattern: /types={:Video})

leads to a result that includes everything, not only
the relevant types.

If the /excl=<some path> is removed from the category,
the quick search works as expected when clicked

[admin]

Confirmed.

This is obviously done on purpose on the code (if the category has any switches, then drop any item switches), but unfortunately and untypically I did not make any comment on why I did it like this. :\

I will change it now.

[highend]

Thanks, and I move the thread to "Bug reports"...