Nisus InfoClick - Manual (Page 45)

Review the Methods of Finding 29
Review the Methods of Finding
Choose a selector by:
• Typing in the appropriate group field,
• Clicking a selector from the pop-down list,
• Pasting in text you have on the Clipboard.
When you begin typing, the list of available selectors opens. If you type something that has no
match in the group, your typing will turn red, the pop-down list will be empty and will display the
no matches message as illustrated in Figure 19 on page 9. As you type each character, the pop-
down list shrinks to show only selectors which match what you have typed. You indicate completion
of the typed selector by typing a space or a return. This chooses the first selector listed. Instead of
typing space or return, you can indicate your choice by using the mouse or trackpad to click a
listed selector.
Choosing multiple selectors from any group, except the Date and the Kind groups, finds items each
of which is described by all selectors chosen. This means, for example, that choosing “science” and
“news”, only finds every item containing both “science” and “news”. The order of the selections does
not matter.
Choose selector terms as alternatives.
As you type and the list of matching selectors shrinks, you will sometimes see several different
forms of a matching word selector (e.g.: “nation”, “nations” “national”, “nationalist” “nationalism”). If
you are not sure which of these forms (“…s” “…al” “…ist” “…ism”) will be in your item, you can
choose them all as alternatives by doing the following:
1. Press A while you click all the alternative selectors.
2. Release A.
InfoClick does not begin its search until you release A. The groups Date and Kind do not require
A to choose multiple alternatives, because in those groups it only makes sense to choose
alternatives.
If your alternative choices are not close to each other in the selectors list, pressing
A can be
inconvenient. In those instances, click Alternatives at the bottom left of the the selectors list. When
checked it acts just as if
A is pressed. When you finish choosing your alternatives, you can
uncheck the box, or just click somewhere else so the selector list closes.
The checkbox is automatically displayed checked when you press
A.
As you choose additional selectors you progressively narrow down the matching items list. After
each choice of a selector, or a set of alternative selectors, the matching items and the list of
remaining selectors are updated immediately, so you can narrow down your matches further. In the
case where you are choosing alternatives using the Command key, or have the Alternatives
checkbox checked, the list of remaining selectors is not updated until you release the Command key
or uncheck the checkbox.
To see the list of available selectors in any group, click the text entry box for that group and start
typing, or before you start typing, click again. The list shows all currently available selectors
through which you can scroll or you can begin typing to display a more limited list. Pressing
0 also
toggles between displaying the list and hiding it.
Alternatives and George Boole 4
InfoClick uses the Alternatives check box to allow for the "or" Boolean (Disjunctive) in groups that
by default are "and" (Conjunctive).
4 See Appendix II