Become familiar with these terms to get the most out of working with DEVONsphere Express.
User interface:
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Action menu: A menu with additional options. Usually pops up when you click a gear-shaped
icon. Read more…
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Context menu: The menu that appears when you Control-click something; the context menu gives you access to frequently used commands that deal directly with the clicked object.
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Menu extra: A background application that manifests in a tiny icon located at the right-hand side of the menu bar, left of the Spotlight menu. DEVONsphere Express looks like a
leaf. Read more…
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Panel: A window floating above other windows, usually with smaller interface elements. Read more…
Searching:
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Boolean operators: Boolean operator are AND, OR, and NOT. They are used to define how words or parts of search terms relate to each other. Example: 'steve AND jobs'. Read more…
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Fuzzy: A technology that in a search run finds also words that only match the search term to 90 percent, e.g., words with typos. This is by default the way DEVONsphere Express operates.
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Live updating: Searching as soon as the search term changes; the result list is always up-to-date. Read more…
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Query: See: search term.
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Results: A pool of documents or links to documents, e.g., web pages or PDF documents, returned by a search run.
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Search run: The process of searching, e.g., your computer or a search engine.
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Search term: A text string, usually also containing Boolean operators, telling the software in a structured way what to search for.
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Wildcards: Characters in a search term replacing one or multiple arbitrary characters. Like the joker in a card game. Read more…
