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Navigating the Database
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<h1>
<a name="Navigation"></a>Navigating the Database
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There are numerous ways to navigate the database.
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<h2>
Overview Pane
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The <a
href="overview_pane.htm"
>Overview Pane</a> displays snippets by name, organised into groups.
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<p>
Clicking a snippet's name displays the snippet in the <a
href="detail_pane.htm"
>Detail Pane</a>.
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<p>
Clicking a group heading displays a table of contents of the group in the
<a
href="detail_pane.htm"
>Detail Pane</a>. This group contains all the snippets from the group
along with their descriptions.
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<p>
Selected items are normally<sup><small>†</small></sup> displayed in
the current tab of the <a
href="detail_pane.htm"
>Detail Pane</a>. However, <span class="smallcaps">Ctrl</span> clicking
any item displays it in a new tab<sup><small>†</small></sup>.
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<h2>
Details Pane
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<p>
The <a
href="detail_pane.htm"
>Details Pane</a> is often displaying either details of a snippet or a
group's table of contents.
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<p>
A snippet display may contain links to related snippets and to the
category to which it belongs.
</p>
<p>
A group's table of contents contains links to the snippets contained in
the group.
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<p>
Clicking any link displays target of the link in the current
tab<sup><small>†</small></sup>, overwriting the current display.
Once again <span class="smallcaps">Ctrl</span> clicking the link displays
the target item in a new tab<sup><small>†</small></sup>.
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You can use the <span class="smallcaps">Tab</span> key to cycle through
any snippet and category links displayed in the <a
href="detail_pane.htm"
>Details Pane</a> and then press <span class="smallcaps">Return</span> or
<span class="smallcaps">Ctrl+Return</span> to display the links in current
or a new tab, respectively<sup><small>†</small></sup>.
<h2>
History
</h2>
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Previously viewed items (i.e. tables of contents and snippets) can be
re-displayed using the navigation history.
</p>
<p>
You can move backwards and forwards in the history <img
alt="Previous button"
src="../images/GoBack.png"
class="glyph"
> <em>Previous</em> and <img
alt="Next button"
src="../images/GoForward.png"
class="glyph"
> <em>Next</em> toolbar buttons or the equivalent <a
href="menu_view.htm"
>View menu</a> items.
<p>
Alternatively you can jump directly to any item in the history using the
drop-down menus next to the <em>Previous</em> and <em>Next</em> buttons.
</p>
<p>
<span class="smallcaps">Ctrl</span> clicking on the history buttons and
menu items works as you would expect: it displays the selected snippet in
a new tab<sup><small>†</small></sup>.
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<h2>
Searching
</h2>
<p>
You can narrow down the range of displayed snippets by performing a
<a href="task_search.htm">ssearch</a>.
</p>
<h2>
Footnote
</h2>
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† If an item is already displayed in a <a
href="detail_pane.htm"
>Detail Pane</a> tab and it is reselected then the existing tab will be
reselected, and updated if necessary, regardless of whether the link was
clicked or <span class="smallcaps">Ctrl</span> clicked. This also applies
to the use of <span class="smallcaps">Return</span> and
<span class="smallcaps">Ctrl+Return</span> on active links.
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