How Do I Save Search Results

[MarketingGuy]

I'm a newbie running a trial on version 15.00.0100.

The questions is: How do I save Search Results?

All I'm trying to do is duplicate the "Save Search" concept within Windows Explorer (Windows7). I simply want to save search results and then be able to click on a link that takes me to or opens a tab that contains the saved search result I have created/run. eg. *.doc or *.xlsx, etc.

I know this has to be a super-basic question, but I have spent over an hour reading the help files and through this forum trying to figure it out. I have only found references to being able to save search results, but nothing specific about how to actually do it. I thought it might have something to do with Catalogs or Paper Folders or the Report functionality. Catalogs kind-of does it, with the List Items feature, but it is not what I'm really looking for, because it doesn't open search results in a tab so that I can further sort through the results. Reports does it with a lot of monkey motion and Excel, but of course I lose link functionality to open a file.

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

[admin]

Hi and welcome!

You were close. Paper Folders is the answer:
http://www.xyplorer.com/release_14.30.htm#PF

Don

[MarketingGuy]

Thanks Don -

I did initially think Paper Folders might have something to do with the process, but just couldn't grasp the process. After reading and re-reading your link I did finally figure out that you have to create a new Paper Folder and then manually paste content into it.

New Question: Are the "Paper Folder Search Results" automatically updated? Example: I have created a Paper Folder search result for *.doc files that was first created on 1-1-2015. Will I find new *.doc files, created after 1-1-2015, when I open the Paper Folder containing the *.doc search results?

[admin]

1) No, it's much easier, just one click: Toggle Paper Folder (View | Paper Folders | Toggle Paper Folder), or from the Toolbar:

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2) You asked "How Do I Save Search Results". If you meant "How Do I Save A Search" there is a different answer to that: Look up the help for "Search Templates".

[MarketingGuy]

Yikes! THANKS! Not at all intuitive, but happy for the solution! (I know this isn't the place....but a right-click on the "Search Results tab title" and "Save Search Results to Paper Folder" menu option would be very intuitive.)

So.... are Paper Folders automatically updated when new content is added to your hard drive that matches the original or initial search parameters? eg. Initial search is for *.doc performed on 1-1-2015 and saved to search_doc.txt. Will a new .doc file created on 2-1-2015 be added to the saved Paper Folders search result when the PaperFolder search_doc.txt file is opened?

[admin]

No, Paper Folders are like Paper. They don't auto-update.

What you want is Search Templates.

[Patneu]

You could also put this:

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<your search location>?<your search query>

into the "location" field of a catalog item or this:

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::goto "<your search location>?<your search query>"

into the "on left click" field of a custom toolbar button.

This should run a new search query everytime you click your item/button, so it should update.

[mwoffenden]

With the dizzying array of features in XYplorer, is there still no way to simply save a search (from the UI)??

Let me be clear: I do NOT want to save the results. I DO want to save the search (the query) and be able to run it and re-run it at any time (given that each time I run it I might get different results.)

The only way that seems to work right now is to keep XYplorer running forever...

[admin]

Search templates... Search tabs... Both available for many many years...

[mwoffenden]

Ok, sounds promising, but on which menu item(s) should I click to get started?

[admin]

Help

[TheQwerty]

1) Edit | Search Templates...

There is also a related scripting command loadsearch so you can activate saved templates from a script.
More info:
http://www.xyplorer.com/release_7.60.php#loadsearch
Jump to Help Scripts:

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::help 'idh_searchtemplates.htm';  // Search Templates
::help 'idh_scripting_comref.htm#idh_sc_loadsearch'; // Scripting Commands: LoadSearch

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2) You might also find Click and Search useful if you use the Catalog.

More info:
http://www.xyplorer.com/release_14.20.php#CAS
Jump to Help Script:

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::help 'idh_clickandsearch.htm'; // Click and Search

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[mwoffenden]

Ok, thanks for the replies. I found search tempates and after endless clicks and loading of templates, finally got my search to re-run. Phew, I need to take a nap now.

Here's a novel idea. Why not make it easy: Right-click the search results tab and select "Save Search...". 2 clicks by my count.

[kunkel321]

[...] Why not make it easy: Right-click the search results tab and select "Save Search...". 2 clicks by my count.

Not a bad idea... Something like "Save current parameters as Search Template." Then the person could go to the list of templates later and edit as needed.

[TheQwerty]

There used to be a Templates... button in the Find Files tab, but things got a bit cramped and it was sacrificed to appease the spirits.

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v10.80.0305 - 2012-02-15 21:59
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    - Info Panel | Find Files: Removed the "Templates..." button. 
      Reason: Not enough space, and not really necessary since the 
      function is always available in menu Edit and by CKS (Ctrl+F9).

http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 408#p69408

EDIT: And then the spirits required more from Don so it was also stripped of its keyboard shortcut:

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v13.70.0135 - 2014-02-17 13:26
. . .
    * Edit | Search Templates: Removed the default keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+F9).

http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 76#p100376
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While its return has been requested previously, Don's response has been kept short with a single "Maybe. ".