Biblioscape supports Quick Find by typing letters when a listview or a treeview of records is active. The current record will jump to the one that best match what you have typed within 2 seconds. For example, if there are 200 records in the categories pane and you want to select the category "UN", you can type letter "u". Biblioscape will jump to the category "UN". If there is another category "US" and you want to jump to it, you have to type letter "u" and then letter "s" within 2 seconds you typed letter "u". Otherwise, Biblioscape will jump to the first category that start with letter "S". The searching in Quick Find is case insensitive.
Quick Find is supported in the categories pane, as well as the main treeview or listview in all modules. To use Quick Find, please make sure the listview or treeview control has the focus. If not, select any record in the list to to make it the currently focused control and then start typing.
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Please separate renaming from navigation and selection
While it is good to have a quick way to find and select categories, etc., the current implementation of Quick Find every other time results in unwanted renaming of categories. A possibility of this outcome requires that the user pays careful attention to the operation of Quick Find thus taking away the speed advantages and introducing errors that are difficult to fix because it is sometimes not clear what got renamed and there is no history or undo.
I am not sure how to do it but I think renaming should be clearly separated from navigation and selection. Perhaps with a switch? Or maybe quick find could have a separate entry window in the style of real-time desktop search engines? Or, perhaps selecting for renaming with a mouse click could require an additional function key such as Ctrl or similar.......
The rename problem is caused
The rename problem is caused by a bug. It will be fixed in 7.21 release available this weekend. Quick Find is one of the new features in 7.21 release. Thanks.