Cumulus provides two Quicksearch fields, one to search for records (located in the toolbar), and one to search for categories (located in the Category pane).
Both Quicksearch fields work the same way – just enter a search term (e.g. a name or a number) into the field and click the icon or press Enter.
With Record Quicksearch, Cumulus by default searches the record fields Record Name, Document Text, Notes, Keywords, and Categories. The result shows all records that contain the search term in any one of these fields.
With Category Quicksearch, Cumulus by default searches the Category Name field. The result shows all categories that contain the search term in their names. To provide orientation in the category hierarchy, the categories above the found categories are displayed additionally.
By default, the Quicksearch is performed as a “contains” search for all included String fields and String List fields, and as an “is” search for all included Integer fields in all catalogs open in the current collection.
A contains search means, that searching for the string dog not only will find the word dog, but also doggy, dogma, bulldog, endogenous, etc – in short, any word containing that particular sting.
Additionally, word-searching for String fields and String List fields can be enabled by activating the Index for word-searching option in the properties of the field, via the Catalogs section of the Preferences dialog (see Overview: Field Properties / General Tab / Indexing, for details.
The selection of fields used by Record Quicksearch as well as by Category Quicksearch can be changed in the User Settings section of the Preferences dialog (see Search & Sort Tab / Records and Categories, for details).
icon or press Enter.