Keywords for Reference Manual

[Trenloe]

You mean I can't search for;
(sword OR blade) AND (magic OR magical) AND NOT silver
??

Dont. Over. Think. It.

[Ikael]

The reference manual's search is not Google search in matter of fact it's not searching, its filtering. I believe it works fine as it is, because the other side of the coin is that making it more google-like search like would bring up more results and the output is not sorted by relevance which would make the search less helpful for the user.

[Trenloe]

in matter of fact it's not searching, its filtering.

Yeah, that's a very good point to raise. The functionality is the same as any filter in FG - start typing and the results will slowly be filtered out. So, using the example we've seen, if you start typing "magic" or "sword" you will see "magic sword" or "sword magic" keywords match until you press space and type the first character of the next word. As we're talking about reference manuals here it's unlikely to have lots and lots and lots of entries so this should be fine (but someone might decide to put hundreds of entries in there - which really isn't what the reference manual is designed for, but it is possible).

[Trenloe]

Additionally - reference manual filtering will only occur on the <keywords> entries, it will not apply to the reference manual section title. This is an important thing to remember - you'll very often start your keywords with words from the actual section title and then a few others that are key to that particular section.

[leozelig]

Actually, you can enclose multiple keywords in quotes (in the xml file, not the search bar) to group them as a filter - "magic sword" for example. Of course, that means trying to include every potential filter combination really complicates the keyword data, so I think I will just keep it simple.

Also, I have noticed that the chapter just has to be open in order to be filtered. If you click the (+) button to expand all before entering the keyword, the filter will apply to the entire reference manual.

Correction: You do not need to "expand all" before entering the keyword - it automatically does this when you enter a keyword.

[Talyn]

Maybe that's what it was! Expand it to add the words, not click each page... been a bit since I was testing that stuff to try to figure out why I couldn't search immediately after bringing up the window.