Finding and selecting standards or processes

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Filling the list of standards or processes

Filling the list of standards

Filling the list of processes

Finding items in the list

Changing the sort order and scrolling through the list

Searching for items in the list

Selecting one or more items

Showing only the selected items

Filling the list of standards or processes

Filling the list of standards

If GainSeeker is configured to Automatically fill standard list, then the list of standards is automatically filled like the example below:

If GainSeeker is not configured to Automatically fill standard list, then the list of standards is automatically left blank and a Fill list button is shown like the example below:

To fill the list with one or more standards, click Fill list. This displays the Fill Part Number list window:

Using the Fill Part Number list window

To fill the list with all of the standards, leave the Part Number begins with box empty and then click OK. This will also remove the Fill list button from the window.
To display a partial list of standards based on the criteria you select, use the following tips:

To find standards that begin with a string of one or more characters, type the first few characters of the standard name in the Part Number begins with box.
To search for standards that contain a value but do not necessarily begin with that value, use the % wildcard character. For example:

To find all the standards that contain "Length", type %Length in the Part Number begins with box.
To find all the standards that begin with D and contain "Length", type D%Length in the Part Number begins with box.

To search for standards that contain a value in a specific position in the standard name, use the _ wildcard character.

For example:

To find the standards

- D-34KW X-dimension,
- D-34KW Y-dimension, and
- D-34KW Z-dimension,

but to exclude

- D-34KW outside X-dimension,

type D-34KW _-dimension in the Part Number begins with box.

To specify uppercase and lowercase letters in the search, select the Match case check box.
You can search on all values from the Part Number column. You cannot search on any values from the second column (Description or Process).

When the Fill list button is available, you can select one or more standards and then click Fill list again to perform a different search for standards. The standards you have already selected will remain on the list, as well as any other standards that matched the criteria you used to fill the list. You can also search within the list of standards displayed.

Note: The priority list function is not currently available in the Dynamic Reports module.

Filling the list of processes

If you are working with DMS standards and processes, you can change to the list of processes by changing the List Contents to Process as shown in the example below:

Finding items in the list

Changing the sort order and scrolling through the list

To:	Do this:
Scroll through the list	Click the scroll bar - or - Click one item in the list and then press the down arrow key - or - Click one item in the list and then type the first letter of the name of the standard or process you want to find
Change the sort order of the list	At the top of the list, click the column header (such as Part Number, Description, etc.) that you wish to sort by. You can click that same column header again to reverse the sort order.

Searching for items in the list

When standards or processes are displayed in the list, you can reduce the number of items displayed for selection.

To do so:

For a simple Search box like the one pictured here, enter any portion of the item's name into the Search box. You can search on all values from the Part Number column. You cannot search on any values from the second column (Description or Process).
Some areas of GainSeeker will show a list of columns you can search, like the picture below. (Some options are not available if you are displaying a priority list or DMS processes.)

Choose the type of information to search, and then enter any portion of the search text into the Search by box.
You can also enter a regular expression for this search. To do so, your search must begin with R: followed by the regular expression, like the following examples:

To find all standards that begin with "TEMP", enter R:^TEMP as the search string.
To find all standards that end with "TEMP", enter R:TEMP$ as the search string.
To find all standards that contain "Angle" or "Bracket", enter R:Angle|Bracket as the search string.

As you type, GainSeeker will automatically hide from the list any unselected items that do not contain the text you have entered. If you have already selected one or more items on the list before using the search, those items will remain displayed and selected on the list, even if they do not contain the search text you have entered. If you used the Fill list button to display standards that met particular search criteria, then GainSeeker will only look for the Search text you entered within those standards that met the criteria for filling the list.

If desired, you may select one or more standards displayed on the list before performing another search or using the Fill list button (if available).

To return to the list of items that met the Fill list criteria, remove all text from the Search box.

Selecting one or more items

To:	Do this:
Select one item in the list	Click on the item
Select several items listed in sequence	Use one of these methods: Click the first item you want to select. Press and hold the SHIFT key. Scroll to the last item and click on it. All items between your first and last selected items will also be selected. - or - Click the first or last item you want to select. Press and hold the SHIFT key. Press the arrow keys on the keyboard to scroll up or down the list.
Select several items not listed in succession	Press and hold the CTRL key. Click the items you want to select.
Select all the standards:	Select the Select All checkbox on the Part Number tab of the Report Retrieval Settings dialog as shown in this image: Note: Selecting this checkbox selects all the standards (or part numbers) in the list, plus any standards that may be added for that user in the future. Then, each time the report is run with Select All chosen, the list and the resulting report updates accordingly.

Showing only the selected items

To quickly view the items you have selected so far, click Show Selected.

This hides all unselected items on the list and change the name of the button to Show All.

To return to the list of items that met the Search criteria and the Fill list criteria, click Show All.