Add 'Programmable Presets' in the Find Files dialog

[JamesMcBride]

I do several common searches using the Find Files dialog which, of course. have different settings in the various tabs of that dialog (Name & Location, Size, Date, Attributes, Tags, Contents, Dupes, Excluded)
My idea is to be able to assign a set of tab settings to several Preset Buttons that could appear to the right of the existing dialog in the 'Name & Location" tab. That way, when I click one of the presets, it would automatically populate the settings for that preset. I think that this idea would work very well in concert with the existing 'Reset Filters' button in that dialog.
Maybe you could make the buttons dynamically created (and deleted, if desired) and be able to assign a short name to the preset button that would appear right on it and/or as a hover pop-up.

[highend]

The whole part of that gui doesn't resize like other components so it wouldn't work out for low resolution screens anyway.

You can already script the whole thing and put it on buttons, into the catalog, etc., though...

[admin]

There's a thing called Search Templates...

[GreetingsFromPoland]

There's a thing called Search Templates...

whoa! never knew about those. now those would come in handy. i wonder how many others don't know or forgot about them.

there are so many features and commands that go unnoticed and unused because, imo, aren't readily available in the gui-location where it would be used (or memory-jogged). would it be possible to add a button or something within the find panel that would access the templates ? possible a drop-down style that the default would open Search Templates and the drop-down(s) would be the named list of saved templates to quickly apply ?

even a small button with a template icon to just load Search Templates would help (and not require a lot of extra space).

[admin]

Right-click the Find Now button to quickly get to the templates.

[eil]

there are so many features and commands that go unnoticed and unused because, imo, aren't readily available in the gui-location where it would be used

As it's said: "When nothing else helps, probably the only way left is to finally read the Help file."

[JamesMcBride]

Thank you very much for the help on this! I didnt know about the Templates either! I am not at my computer right now, but I will be messing with this when I get home from work!