Reference Manual > Windows and dialog boxes > Entry select

From the Main window menu [Edit] [Select by criteria] is used to select entries.

This enables you to choose entries which meet certain criteria.

You can choose to set the Main window selections:

•Select only these - any previous selections are ignored and only entries that meet the criteria are selected

•Select these as well - previous selections are preserved and any entries that meet the criteria are selected in addition to those already selected

•Deselect these - previous selections are preserved but any selected entries that meet the criteria are deselected (no longer selected)

•Select all but these - any previous selections are ignored and only entries that do not meet the criteria are selected

You can specify one or more of the following criteria. All specified criteria must be met for an entry to be included.

Entry names

It is possible to select entries by name.

TIP: Name searches are not case sensitive.

Matching a simple text

This will find any name containing the group of characters chosen.

Matching a regular expression

This uses a "Regular Expression".

For details on what to use as the search text, see Definitions, Regular expressions find.

Entry types

•Questions

•Variables

•Filters

oHold

oOther

•Other entry types

Answer types

•Single-coded

•Multi-coded

•Integer

•Float

•Date

•Time

•Character

•Verbatim

•Interviewer text

Refers to or from named entry

You can select all entries that:

•Are indirectly needed for a named entry - this is all the entries that this entry refers to directly plus any entries that these entries refer to, and so on

•Are directly needed for this entry - this is all the entries that this entry refers to directly

•Are direct references to this entry - this is all the entries that refer directly to this entry

•Are indirect references to this entry - this is all the entries that refer directly to this entry, plus any entries that refer to these entries, and so on

The named entry is also selected.

TIP: when changing an entry in an ongoing project you should check all the indirect references to it to make sure that they are still valid.

Entry texts

It is possible to select entries by searching for particular pieces of text in one or more of the main text types:

•Entry texts

•Interviewer instructions

•Response texts

•Base texts

TIP: Text searches are not case sensitive.

Matching a simple text

This will find any selected text containing the group of characters chosen.

Matching a regular expression

This uses a "Regular Expression".

For details on what to use as the search text, see Definitions, Regular expressions find.