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Returning "ALL"

Submitted by Julie Green on Tue, 2006-01-03 08:01.General Discussions

I have a user that like the way our "Old system" returned all records if he searched with an empty search string. This does not happen with DbSIGHT (ANd I don't think it should). Is there a way to tell DbSight to return ALL records?

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Submitted by will on Tue, 2006-01-03 21:39.

Maybe we should add this feature next release.

At the same time, I suggest you default to use one common search word, hopefully it is common among all records.

Notes: All most common words are already filtered, like "the", "a", "an", etc. So don't use them as default search words.

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wanted (configurable)
Submitted by kgeis on Mon, 2006-01-30 12:58.

I don't think this should be the default behavior, but I think it should be an option. I can see users drilling through all records via Narrow By instead of text matching.

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Probably shouldn't be
Submitted by Julie Green on Fri, 2006-01-06 12:46.

The more that I thought about it, the more I felt that the engine really SHOULDN"T return all records for a null search string. In large databases/indexes, I would think that could cause real time delays. Instead what I did was create a "Click here to display all records" that was external to the indexing engine, warning users that this retrieval (done directly on the database) could take a significant amount of time.

Thanks!

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