Re: [Treebase-devel] Submission searches

[William P. <wil...@ya...>]

On May 23, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Michael Jones wrote:

> Hello again,
> 
> I've noticed that when preforming a study search on TreeBASE ( http://www.treebase.org/treebase-web/search/studySearch.html ), if you search for one term, for instance the title, "Molecular Phylogeny and Phylogeography of the Australian Freshwater Fish Genus Galaxiella, with an Emphasis on Dwarf Galaxias (G. pusilla)," and then search for something else, such as the title, "More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs," the second search won't run until you discard your previous search terms. 
> 
> I'm not sure that this is a bug as much as a preference, but at least to me, having to discard your previous search results doesn't seem particularly intuitive.
> 
> Oddly enough, this problem seems to have been circumvented in the Dev version of TreeBASE ( http://treebase-dev.nescent.org/treebase-web/search/studySearch.html ), which doesn't have the same search term capabilities. 
> 
> Michael

Hi Michael,

So, in the first case it is, in fact, intentional. The idea is to allow AND searches. For example, to find all trees published by Michael Donoghue that have more than 100 taxa, do this:

- Do Author search for Donoghue
- Click the Trees tab
- Enter "100.." for a NTAX search

I had not noticed that this feature is broken following Rutger's recent changes to an "any field search" design.

Rutger: is there a way to do an AND search (within or between tabs)? 

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