YuleLog™ makes it easy to find a particular ornament or a group of ornaments
in a collection. When you click on the Find Tab, you will be taken to the
following screen.
If you want to find the 1991 ornaments with Santa in the name, click in the
Year field and type 1991, then click in the Name field and type Santa. Click on
the center Perform Find Button and you will be given a list of ornaments that
meet these requirements. This is called an AND search since it finds items that
are from 1991 AND that are called Santa.
If you want to find all of the Santa ornaments for 1991 and 1992, repeat the
above, but before you click on Perform Find, click on
You can use the operators from the Symbols pop-up list in the
Use this operator: To find values that are:
< Less than what you type next
<= Less than or equal to what you type next
> Greater than what you type next
>= Greater than or equal to what you type next
= An exact match
... Within the range you specify
! Duplicate values
// Today's date
? Invalid dates
@ One character only
* Zero or more characters
"" Literal text
For example, to find the ornaments from 1983 to 1985, you would type in the
year field, 1983...1985 and then click on the center Perform Find button.
To find ornaments that don't match the request click on the Omit box in the
Status Bar after typing in the criteria. For example, to find all ornaments that
are not Mint in Box, select Mint in Box in the Condition field, click on the
Omit check box, and then click on the center Perform Find button. You will be
presented with a list of all ornaments that are not Mint in Box.
To find records that have no information in a particular field, type an equal
sign (=) or choose the equal sign from the Symbols list and then click on the
center Perform Find button.
Once you have found the items that you were looking for, you may print the
list by clicking on the Print button at the bottom of the List View.
See Also
Searching Using the Find Screen
