CCP4i2 Search Tools

Job search

The Job search tool on the Project viewer toolbar will find a job in the project based on its name, when it was run and text in its title or annotation (see text search syntax. In addition you can search:

the Data history for which you must select one job and the data type of input or output data - this will select preceeding jobs that provided input data and succeeding that used output data. Note that the job context menu (right mouse click on a job) in the Job list has a Data history option with similar functionality.
the jobs that used specific control parameters in running a job (beware this searches the parameter files which can be slow). See details.
where an external Imported file is first used - you must select or provide the path name of the file

The 'hit' jobs are highlighted on the Job list in red. The Data history search may well find more than one path after the job and you can scroll between the options with the slider that is displayed above the Job list.

The Data/time widgets can be changed using up/down arrows to change and component and left/right arrows to toggle between components.

Search projects

The Search button on the Manage/open projects window will open the Search projects window.

Text search syntax

The job search tool will search the job title (as it appears in the Job list) or Comments (as entered in the Comments tab for the job) for the text string which may contain the following wildcards:

Wildcard	Description
%	A substitute for zero or more characters
_	A substitute for a single character
[charlist]	Sets and ranges of characters to match
[^charlist] or[!charlist]	Matches only a character NOT specified within the brackets

For example to find jobs whose title begin with 'Refinement' you will need to enter Refinement%

Searching control parameters

This tool is intended to help you find jobs that were run with specific parameters. The job parameters are not saved in the database and so the search must open the input_params.xml file for each searched job - this may be slow. In the search dialog the taskname must be chosen and the Control parameters radio button clicked to show the options. The parameter name must be selected from a list - if you do not know the parameter name open a job of the required task and hover the cursor over the input field you are interested in; the tooltip that appears after a short time should have the name of the parameter at the end of the help text. The parameter name is usually uppercase letters. The definition of the required value can have one or more components which are separated by spaces so for example to find a value between 10 and 20 the definition would be '>10 <20'. The following comparison operators can be used:

Operation	Description
<	less than
>	greater than
=	equal to
!=	not equal to
<=	less than or equal
>=	greater than or equal

If there is not operator then it is assumed to be 'equal to'. If a comma-separated list of values is entered then any of those values will be found.

Last modified: Tue Sep 20 16:11:33 BST 2016