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Using advanced search – Grass Valley K2 AppCenter v.7.2 User Manual

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05 April 2010

K2 AppCenter User Manual

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Locating assets

If the

Search names only…

option is selected, the search is applied to asset names.

If not selected, the search includes all asset metadata. Refer to

“Working with asset

metadata” on page 128

.

Search by date – If you are searching for assets created or modified within a

specific date or time range, use the

Date

tab. By default, the

All Dates

box is

selected. To specify date criteria, select the

Find items

option to enable the controls

under it. Use the drop-down list to choose

Created

or

Modified

, then do one of the

following:

• Select the

between

option, and then specify a date range. Click the edit control

to display a calendar for easy input.

• Select the

in the last

option, and then use the drop-down lists to specify a time

within a recent number of minutes, hours, days, or months.

Search by Type

– In the

Type

tab, select the type of assets— clips, programs or lists

to be searched. Search results will only include the selected types.

3. Once you have selected the search criteria, click

OK

to start the search.

The search results are displayed in the Clips pane. The text in the Current Bin

control is replaced with a brief summary of the search. For example, Search: movie

- indicates all the clips, programs and lists with names like movie1, movie2, or

Search: Created Last 7 Days

for assets created in the last week.

When you perform a search, the most recent four searches are displayed. The older

ones get removed. At any one time, you see four searches at most in the bin list. There

is no way to delete these.

Using Advanced Search

The Search dialog box provides the advanced search mode that provides an extended

set of attributes for locating assets anywhere in the K2 system media storage.

1. Open the Search dialog box by doing one of the following:

• Select

Clips | Search

, or

• Click t

he

Search

button in the Clips pane.

If the

Search

button is not displayed in the Clips pane, refer to assignable buttons

in

“Guide to using the Clips pane” on page 108

.

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