Help - Browse Indexes
The Browse page lists available search terms in the Film Indexes Online Search fields. To browse the index for a particular search field, select the select from a list link that appears next to the search field.
Please note:
- The terms within the browse indexes are arranged alphabetically.
- The Film Title browse page displays entire film titles.
- The Keyword browse list will display all the individual words that appear in the Film Indexes Online search fields.
- Director and Cast and crew names are displayed alphabetically by last name.
Once in the browse index, you can navigate using:
- the Look For search box. Use the Look for button to accelerate to a certain part of the browse list by typing in your search term (or partial search term) and selecting the Look for button. The closest match to your term will appear in the browse list with five terms above and below it.
- the Up and Down buttons. These allow you to scroll through the preceding and following sections of the browse index.
If you do not enter a term into the search box before browsing, the browse index will open displaying the first 200 entries. The Look For... search box will be blank.
If you have entered a term into any other search box before browsing, the browse index will open with the nearest match to that term highlighted. The term entered is displayed above the browse index in the Look For... search box. For example, if you enter jazz into the Keywords field and browse, jazz will be carried over into the Look For... search box and the browse index will open at the relevant point with jazz already highlighted.
If you have entered more than one term into the search box before selecting the relevant field name button (separated by either Boolean or proximity operators), the last term only will be carried over into the browse index. For example, if you enter jazz or blues into the Keywords field and select the relevant field name button, blues will be carried over into the Look For... search box and the browse index will open at the relevant point with blues already highlighted.
Windows users can multi-select contiguous terms using Shift+Select and non-contiguous terms using Ctrl+Select. Highlighted terms can be de-selected by moving the cursor to the relevant term and using Ctrl+Select.
Returning to the search screen
When the desired term or terms are highlighted, select OK to transfer them back to the relevant search field. Each item transferred will be enclosed in double quotes and uses the EXACT operator. When you transfer more than one search term from a browse index to a search box, Film Indexes Online automatically combines them using the Boolean operator OR.