The Trove Interface

The Trove interface includes a toolbar near the top of the screen, and the main display region, which occupies the rest of the interface.

About the Toolbar

There are nine items listed on the toolbar. These are, from left to right in the default display:

1. Library. Select this toolbar item to view all the folders available to you in the current library.
2. First. Select this toolbar item to jump to the first occurrence of searched-for text within the current library.
3. Prev. Select this toolbar item to jump to the previous occurrence of searched-for text relative to your current location in a document.
4. Search for. Type the text that you want to search for in this toolbar field. Reference: See the information below About Search Text for guidance.
5. Go. Click this button, which is to the right of the Search For field, to start the text search.
6. Clear Search. Click this item in the toolbar to clear the current search criteria.
7. Next. Select this toolbar item to jump to the next occurrence of searched-for text relative to your current location in a document.
8. Last. Select this toolbar item to jump to the last occurrence of searched-for text within the current library.
9. Help. Select this toolbar item to see the Trove Webserver help system.

About the Main Display Region

The main display region of the Trove interface lists the folders, sub-folders and documents in the current library, and displays the contents of a selected document.

Click one of the listed folders or sub-folders to open it and display a list of the documents or sub-folders within it. If there is only one document in a folder or sub-folder, Trove displays that document automatically when you open the folder.

Click the Library item in the toolbar to return to the initial view that shows all the folders in the current library.

About Search Text

Trove allows you to search for words and phrases within the documents in an open library. The main display region of the Trove interface then lists only those folders that contain occurrences of the search text. Click a folder to see the documents or sub-folders within it. Click a document to open it.

An open document identifies the number of occurrences of the search text within each section, and shows to the left of the document's title the total number of occurrences of the search text in the document.

Click the title of a section in the document to open that section. You can then click the navigation items First, Prev, Next and Last in the toolbar to move among occurrences of the search text in the document. Each occurrence of the search text has a double-chevron character on either side, which you can also use to move to the previous or the next occurrence of the text.

Click the Clear search item in the toolbar to clear the current search text. You must do this before you can display all the folders in the library, or before you type some new search text for Trove to find.

Advanced searches

Trove allows you to conduct advanced searches by using wildcards and wildwords. You can also conduct proximity searches and use the logical operators 'AND' and 'OR'.

Wildcard searches

Wildcard searches allow you to expand the search criteria by adding an asterisk character '*' in an appropriate location. For example:

• The search text 'document' will find occurrences of the word 'document'.
• The search text 'document*' will find occurrences of the words 'document', 'documents', and 'documentation'.

Wildword searches

Wildword searches allow you to search for occurrences of two words when there may be another word between them. For example:

• The search text 'quality system' will find occurences only of the words 'quality system'.
• The search text 'quality * system' will find occurrences of 'quality management system' and 'quality control system'.

Proximity searches

Proximity searches allow you to search for occurrences where one word appears close to the second word in a library. It does not matter in which order the words occur. To use this feature, you must must include the word 'NEAR' in the Search for field.

For example, the search text 'quality NEAR system' will search for all occurrences of the words 'quality' and 'system' that are near to each other in the library.

Notes:

• The Trove Administrator sets the maximum amount of text between one of the search words and the other for Trove to identify them as being in proximity.
• If you wish to search for text that includes the word 'near', you must enclose the entire search text in single quotation marks, for example 'near and far'.

AND/OR searches

The logical operators AND and OR allow you to search for occurrences of two words in the same topic. For example:

• The search text 'quality AND system' will search for occurrences where the words 'quality' AND 'system' both appear in the same topic. If a topic includes one of the words but not the other, then it will be ignored.
• The search text 'quality' OR 'system' will search for occurrences where either the word 'quality' OR the word 'system' appear in a topic (or where both these words are present in a topic).

Notes:

• A topic is the amount of information between two consecutive heading levels.
• If your search text includes either of the words 'and' or 'or', then you must enclose the entire search text in single quotation marks, for example 'salt and pepper', 'left or right'.