Then, I think this search with the search terms left blank should produce a flat list off all subordinates, to whatever degree. Instead, it seems to come up with zero. [t's a little hard to get a quick feel of the search because it doesn't search *on* topic headings, which would be the easiest item to search for to get the overall logic. I understand that will be fixed.]
But even if it worked as above, I don't think it would do what I'm asking, because I cannot form the Boolean product or sum of outline-based categories. If I triy to select two headings, they are unselected when I try to define a search.
If you want a concrete model of how selection of outline topics with Boolean operations, you might check out the free version of Idea! (
http://www.sycon.de/eng) It lacks many of the word processing niceties of UR, but is focused on manipulating categories. Or I could explain further this feature, if I'm unclear.
I think the most natural way for UR to accomplish this would be to allow defining searches with outline headings as keywords. It would be in the list of _kinds_ of searches.
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Originally posted by kevina
If I understand your question, I believe there currently is a way to accomplish what you are asking (in a slightly different way then what you envision).
Let's assume the hierarchy you mention:
I. Animal
A. Mammal
1. Primate ...
I believe you want to define a Search (Quick or Advanced) but only search for Mammals (including child Info Items). This is easily accomplished by first selecting the Mammal Info Item in the Data Explorer Pane, then defining a search, and checking the "Limit search to bold item in the Data Explorer pane". Only the bolded Mammal Info Item and it's child Info Items will be searched.
Note: for searches saved in the Data Explorer Pane (a nice way to retain the Mammal location for the search), the checkbox is relabeled to "Limit search to siblings of current search item checkbox", with the same effect.
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