Searching the Product Library - how?

cherpenbeck

Is there a way (no matter how artificially constructed) to arrive at a certain page of your product library without having to go through page after page after page manually? Because if I'm looking for page 99 out of 200, it is cumbersome, it takes time if done manually. A lot of time. And it's terribly annoying that DAZ doesn't seem to be able to provide us with a better way.

IceCrMn

Have you tried typing the product name in the filter box?You don't have to be exact, or use the whole name.Just a few letters and click "filter" should get some results.

Taoz

Why do you want to go to a particular page?

margrave

Taoz said:

Why do you want to go to a particular page?

I presume because the OP wants to search for things that are named similarly, but not the identically, to a particular product. 

Taoz

margrave said:

Taoz said:

Why do you want to go to a particular page?

I presume because the OP wants to search for things that are named similarly, but not the identically, to a particular product. 

In that case you can just type an exact word or phrase those products have in common, e.g. "genesis 3 female" or "3d universe".

margrave

Taoz said:

In that case you can just type an exact word or phrase those products have in common, e.g. "genesis 3 female" or "3d universe".

And what if the spelling is similar, but not identical? 

Taoz

margrave said:

Taoz said:

In that case you can just type an exact word or phrase those products have in common, e.g. "genesis 3 female" or "3d universe".

And what if the spelling is similar, but not identical? 

In that case they may not list on the same page in page view either, that depends entirely on in which way the spelling is similar. 

In page view the library is using alphanumeric sort, meaning that the names must start with something identical to end up on the same, or a nearby, page.  E.g. "house mouse" and "house fly" will most likely show up on the same page, while "house mouse" and "mouse fly" most likely won't (unless you only have 2-3 pages or so).

If you search on "ouse" however, you will get anything with either "house", "mouse", "blouse", or "carousel" etc. in the name.

If you want to search reliably for products with similar names you must use Regex, here you can specify precisely what you want to find and what to exclude, but I don't think the library supports that.

 

margrave

Taoz said:

In that case they may not list on the same page in page view either, that depends entirely on in which way the spelling is similar. 

In page view the library is using alphanumeric sort, meaning that the names must start with something identical to end up on the same, or a nearby, page.  E.g. "house mouse" and "house fly" will most likely show up on the same page, while "house mouse" and "mouse fly" most likely won't (unless you only have 2-3 pages or so).

If you search on "ouse" however, you will get anything with either "house", "mouse", "blouse", or "carousel" etc. in the name.

If you want to search reliably for products with similar names you must use Regex, here you can specify precisely what you want to find and what to exclude, but I don't think the library supports that.

And that's one reason why it would be useful to have the ability to navigate to a particular page. Hence the OP's request.

Taoz

margrave said:

Taoz said:

In that case they may not list on the same page in page view either, that depends entirely on in which way the spelling is similar. 

In page view the library is using alphanumeric sort, meaning that the names must start with something identical to end up on the same, or a nearby, page.  E.g. "house mouse" and "house fly" will most likely show up on the same page, while "house mouse" and "mouse fly" most likely won't (unless you only have 2-3 pages or so).

If you search on "ouse" however, you will get anything with either "house", "mouse", "blouse", or "carousel" etc. in the name.

If you want to search reliably for products with similar names you must use Regex, here you can specify precisely what you want to find and what to exclude, but I don't think the library supports that.

And that's one reason why it would be useful to have the ability to navigate to a particular page. Hence the OP's request.

What reason are you talking about?

margrave

Taoz said:

What reason are you talking about?

 If you want to search reliably for products with similar names you must use Regex, here you can specify precisely what you want to find and what to exclude, but I don't think the library supports that.

cherpenbeck

Besides the nifty fact that I sometimes look for things I remember the look but not the name. Say, I am looking for a bearded guy of which I know that I bought him about one year ago, but I have no name to search for and don#t even remember which Generation he was,. and this area of items is buried somewhere around page 99, it's tedious work to klick every page till I arrive at that page number (and then I have to look at all the pictures on this and the neighboring pages, but that's another story.)

Taoz

cherpenbeck said:

Besides the nifty fact that I sometimes look for things I remember the look but not the name. Say, I am looking for a bearded guy of which I know that I bought him about one year ago, but I have no name to search for and don#t even remember which Generation he was,. and this area of items is buried somewhere around page 99, it's tedious work to klick every page till I arrive at that page number (and then I have to look at all the pictures on this and the neighboring pages, but that's another story.)

If you want a visual overview of all your DAZ products with everything on one page, I've written an app that can do that.  It's free for up to 500 products:  https://taosoft.dk/software/pm-daz/