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Jon C
Jan 31, 2012, 3:41:00 PM1/31/12
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[My emailed submissions are no longer showing up correctly in this
group, so I'm posting this again manually. I've removed the failed
attempts (for those of you who've seen partial/incorrect things
appearing on the website).]
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
group, so I'm posting this again manually. I've removed the failed
attempts (for those of you who've seen partial/incorrect things
appearing on the website).]
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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Jan 31, 2012, 3:50:01 PM1/31/12
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Jon C
Jan 31, 2012, 3:57:30 PM1/31/12
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Thanks for letting us know! I haven't been getting copies of them, and
neither has the other person on the list that I asked to do a double-
check. So, it looked like the messages were making it onto the server
(albeit in the wrong place) but not into people's mailboxes. I'm glad
to hear that that isn't the case after all, and that you did receive
actual emails.
Sorry for the clutter in your mailboxes, everyone. (I do hope no one
else was left out! If you are reading this via email and didn't get
any duplicate emails from me at all, please let me know off-list.)
Thanks,
Jon
neither has the other person on the list that I asked to do a double-
check. So, it looked like the messages were making it onto the server
(albeit in the wrong place) but not into people's mailboxes. I'm glad
to hear that that isn't the case after all, and that you did receive
actual emails.
Sorry for the clutter in your mailboxes, everyone. (I do hope no one
else was left out! If you are reading this via email and didn't get
any duplicate emails from me at all, please let me know off-list.)
Thanks,
Jon
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