Sunday, August 21, 2016

Policy Plus - Text search

Today I put together a text search feature for Policy Plus. A Find by Text window lets the user enter the search terms and which parts to search for the text (title, description, and/or comments).


In the above picture, the user is searching only for policy settings that have "control" and "panel" in the title. Clicking Search starts the find operation in the Search Results window.


Selecting a found policy and clicking Go opens the setting editor and, if possible, navigates to the policy's category in the main form. If the user reopens the results dialog without doing a different search (e.g. by pressing F3), the same form is shown without searching again. It even remembers which item was selected for ease of keyboard arrow use.

The next thing to do is implement "find by Registry", which will use the same results dialog, but a different query window.

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