BRUTUS

software for cataloging

and organizing the

things we collect





2-8. Searching Your Entires

You can find the items you enter into Brutus by the using the File -> View menu items which will list all Albums, or all Books, or all Movies, or all Operas, or all Scores, or all Software. However, if you want to be more specific in your search, you click on the Search menu, as shown in the image below, giving you the capability to search by Author/Composer, Conductor, Director, Artist or Title.






If, for instance, you decide to search on Author/Composer, just click on that option in the Search menu and you will receive a pop-up dialog requesting the name you wish to search for as shown on the image below:






If we enter “Puccini” in the input dialog, we can expect to see listed in the drop down box at the bottom of the screen every Book with an author name that contains “Puccini” plus every Album with a composer name that contains “Puccini” plus every Opera with a composer name that contains “Puccini” plus every Score with a composer name that contains “Puccini” plus every Software entry with an author name that contains “Puccini” like is shown in the image below:






Notice that there is one Album, seven Operas, and one Score among the listed results, plus whatever we can't see in the scrollable window.

Be aware that the search is case-dependent. That is to say that for the purposes of the search, puccini does not equal Puccini. A search on “William” will return all items for “Williams,” “Williamson,” “McWilliamson,” “William James,” “Edward Williamson,” etc.

Now this may sound like stating the obvious, but if it is not said, some poor soul will be confused: Be aware that this example is based on a particular user's entries into his database and that your database will surely have different entries so your results will not look exactly like these.

If, on the other hand, we had decided to search on Conductor, we could expect to see listed in the drop down box, all Albums and all Operas with a conductor name that includes the search argument we enter into the input dialog.

A search on Director would return all Movies and all Operas with a director name containing the search argument.

A search on Artist would return all Albums, all Movies and all Operas with any artist name containing the search argument.

A search on Title is the most comprehensive of all. Every item in the database has a title. If tracks are included in any Album, Movie or Opera, then those item will have multiple titles. Any one of these titles will satisfy a search on Title if it contains the search argument.

Please note that the number appearing in square brackets (e.g. [168]) is not a part of the title and is for internal system use only.





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