> One feature I miss from the old SFM days is the ability to easily
> search:
> (a) the entire data file across all fields
> (b) all fields of a particular writing system
> (c) all occurrences of a given field

> I know a way to do (c): add a column to the view and filter that
> column for the value I want. This works well, although it is specific
> to one writing system in that field (which is fine).

> But I don't know how to do (a), short of exporting all the data to
> Writer or to SFM. Nor how to do (b), short of tediously setting up a
> Dictionary view showing only that language's data and exporting that.

> Any thoughts on this? Another user was just asking me about how to do
> (b), which prompted this email. This is a pretty big felt need for me;
> maybe there are already ways of doing these (a) and (b), or
> workarounds?

> Oh, on a related note, I've also been wishing
> (d) the concordance search feature could be set to include the example
> sentences too, not just the texts.

> Our data has all been gathered via DDP, so we don't have many texts,
> but we do have tons of good example sentences. I suppose one
> workaround (to use right after each large batch of examples has been
> added) would be to export all entries that have examples to SFM, strip
> out everything from the SFM file except the examples and translations,
> and then import them all as one massive text. (Kudos to the developers
> for adding SFM text import!) I haven't tried it yet but probably will
> unless y'all steer me some other direction.

> Jon

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