3D Graphics

Global search gadgets

There is 2 global search engine,with the first you can search a string on the different items.
The items are:

• Object name
  Search on the name of the object,not very usefull but if you don't find on the description field you can use this field.
• Description
  Search on the description field of the object.
• Author
  Search on the author name field.
• Original file format
  Search on the Original file format field.
• Source
  Search on the source location of the object.

If the 'show pictures' is checked, a picture of the object is displayed.
You can enter in the search string more than one word, for all words you enter the database is parsing, if the object have only 1 matching word is returned, but if an object have 2 or more matching word it will be displayed on the top of the list.

Examples:

you can enter 'car truck boat' in the search string, and all objects matching one or more words are returned.

You can enter 'car alfa' in the search string, all objects matching 'car' are returned,but the object matching 'car' and 'alfa' will be on the top of the list.

The second search engine use the inclusion date of the objects.
With this, you can known the new object included in the database since your last connection to FAWS.

Example:

Your last connection to FAWS is 01/10/1997, if i add some objects after this date you can list all new object with the 'Found it by date' search engine.
Just enter in the string gadget your last connection (01/10/1997 in this example), and all new objects will be displayed.