Sort spotlight results?
There used to be a "date modfied" column I could use to sort search results.
Now I can only sort by "name," "kind," and "last opened."
Since I often open the wrong version, I can't use "last opened" as a parameter.
Is there maybe a 3rd party plugin for the finder that would enable me to sort spotlight results?
Or, even easier, is there a method I'm missing?
Thanks.
Pathfinder kind of takes over your whole computer. But Forklift, which costs less, gives you dual panes and is just an amazing finder tool which uses spotlight for searches but gives you date modified. 29$.
Eventually Mac will update spotlight so that it's more useful.
It seems to me that "they" seem to want to infantilize us to death.
Apple, some of us would like a few more options. We won't get too confused. Honest.
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Sort Spotlight results by creation date?
Hi All--
At work, I've recently switched from an old old version of MS Outlook to Entourage 2004, which seems much better. I'd like to archive my old mail, and use Spotlight to search it.
This works very well, except that with e-mail, the "date received" is the key date -- not the "last viewed" date that Spotlight likes to sort on. When I click on a found e-mail, sure enough the "date received" is displayed, but I can't sort on it. It's pretty frustruating when you're looking for a particular mail, and Spotlight keeps resorting them every time you open a message to see if it's the right one.
Is there a way to get the Spotlight window to sort by creation date? I'm open to Terminal hacks, etc -- any ideas?> Is there a way to get the Spotlight window to sort by
creation date? I'm open to Terminal hacks, etc -- any
ideas?
I think I understand the question. I find the results from the Find command (command-F) are more useful when viewed in list mode. I didn't realize at first that you could do this. Try this:
1) Do command-F - search for whatever you want, doesn't matter
2) Change the View in the command area to List. (It's got three options: icons, list, or groups. Spotlight seems to default to displaying by groups.)
3) Pull down the Finder "View" Menu and select Show View Options.
4) Date Created is probably unchecked. Check it.
5) Now you should have a Date Created column in your search area. You can click on the Date Created header to sort by Date Created.
6) ... but it will come up in Groups mode next time you search. One solution is to Save your search into a smart folder (SOMETHING.savedSearch). Customize your search display how you like it. Once it's saved you can put the smart folder in your Sidebar or your Dock so it's always available.
Hope that helps - works for me.
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"other" category in spotlight results
Hello!
Starting with Mavericks I get some unwanted spotlight results.
I use spotlight only to search for applications, so that is the only category I have selected.
Now, when I search for something spotlight will show me a category named "Other" containing all sorts of files.
How can i get rid of this?
I have seen someone else having this problem and what he did is, he blocked all folders that would contain those results.
But that cant be the answer. I can't go and block a million folders all over my harddisk. (at least I don't want too )
Maybe someone has an answer to that!
Thanks!
JYou should check the answers here : https://discussions.apple.com/message/23637617#23637617
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Dictionary no longer appears in the Spotlight results.
The Mac dictionary no longer appears in the Spotlight results. I have reindexed the hard drive, but that did not help. The stand alone Dictionary application launches fine. Suggestions?
The dictionary works just fine to me.
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With a Custom Search portlet how to Sort the Result By Sequence. i.e. by respecting arrangements of the items in the page of contents?
Actually the Results Options "Order By" are : Create Date, Author, Creator, Date Updated, Display Name, Last Update by, Publish Date, Score.
Is there an action to add the "Sequence" Order By result Option?
Great thanks for your kind help.
Best regardsNo, I agree that it is functionality that should be added to the product, but it
is not a bug because it was not written to do this.
It is a short coming of the product.
Cheers,
Ersan -
I've found no way to sort search results in itunes. For example, if I type the group "Rush" into the search bar, I get a list of songs recorded by rush and literally thousands of other songs and artists with the word rush in them. There is; however, no way to sort the results.
In the Search box click on the black Arrow and UNTICK the Search Entire Library.
Then the Search results in Songs view will be displayed in the main Grid and you can sort them by clicking on the column headers.
You can also turn on the column browser which can help with filtering -
Customer request: With a Custom Search portlet how to Sort the Result By Sequence. i.e. by respecting arrangements of the items in the page of contents?
(Like it's possible in MyOracle)
Actually the Results Options "Order By" are : Create Date, Author, Creator, Date Updated, Display Name, Last Update by, Publish Date, Score.
Is there an action to add the "Sequence" Order By result Option?
Great thanks for your kind help.
Best regardsNo, I agree that it is functionality that should be added to the product, but it
is not a bug because it was not written to do this.
It is a short coming of the product.
Cheers,
Ersan -
Sorting the results returned by a Ref cursor
Hi All,
I have a scenario where i am asked to sort results returned by a ref cursor.
I have to pass the column to be sorted as the Input parameter to a stored procedure. I tried using 'order by sorting_parameter' in the ref cursor's select query, but it is not sorting the results. It is not throwing any error even.
Please help.
Many Thanks...Hi
i came across the below reply for a thread with the similar query as above.
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Justin Cave
Posts: 10,696
From: Michigan, USA
Registered: 10/11/99
Re: sort data in ref cursor
Posted: Feb 3, 2005 10:30 AM in response to: [email protected] Reply
No. You could sort the data in the SQL statement from which the REF CURSOR was created, but once you have a REF CURSOR, you cannot do anything but fetch from it.
Justin
Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC
>>
So, the results from a ref cursor cant be sorted?? There is no way out?
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How we can sort subtotal results value in abap alv report
Hi, How we can sort subtotal results value in abap alv report
Thanks a lot for your code
but i am still getting double and weird results.
Subtotal IN PARTY KGS TOTAL VALUE
1 40008 3,141.20 192,799.00
1 40008 16,681.06 1,908,659.00
Subtotal 1 19,822.25 2,101,458.00
10 40022 4,590.60 531,228.00
10 40022 3,448.27 377,173.00
Subtotal 10 8,038.87 908,401.00
100 40010 270.172 19,852.00
Subtotal 100 270.172 19,852.00
101 40036 752.898 61,051.00
101 40036 207.586 19,431.00
Subtotal 101 960.484 80,482.00
102 40048 325.936 32,154.00
102 40048 264.32 19,364.00
Subtotal 102 590.256 51,518.00
103 40066 216.134 18,088.00
Subtotal 103 216.134 18,088.00
104 40001 231.96 16,986.00
Subtotal 104 231.96 16,986.00
105 40021 585.918 65,461.00
105 40021 108.683 15,825.00
Subtotal 105 694.601 81,286.00
106 40046 209.777 15,341.00
Subtotal 106 209.777 15,341.00
107 40043 167.353 14,755.00
Subtotal 107 167.353 14,755.00
108 40046 153.023 14,343.00
108 40046 342.348 32,223.00
Subtotal 108 495.371 46,566.00
109 40008 184.085 13,483.00
Subtotal 109 184.085 13,483.00
11 40011 5,275.63 524,232.69
11 40011 6,723.28 643,911.82
Subtotal 11 11,998.90 1,168,144.51
110 40067 142.113 13,333.00
110 40067 492.883 44,428.00
Subtotal 110 634.996 57,761.00
111 40040 118.961 13,190.00
111 40040 492.433 60,029.00
Subtotal 111 611.394 73,219.00
Edited by: Timaji Sawant on Feb 16, 2012 12:16 PM
Edited by: Timaji Sawant on Feb 17, 2012 9:27 AM -
hi all
In my query I got several chars: Organization, Planning Level, Date
And 3 key figures: Planned amount, Actual Amount, Plan/Actual (calculated KF)
My query got results by Organization on Plan/Actual KF (totals are averages).
Now I need to sort up all Organizations by Planning accuracy, in other words I need to sort query results by Plan/Actual KF totals based on Organization Level.
I created Condition TOP 100 % on Plan/Actual KFG with setting "Individual Chars and Char combinations" and assigning Organziation. But it seems it doesn't work.
How can I make this work?Thnx, Akshay, but I already done like you said and run into some strange behaviuor.
Than I keep it far left without Date in rows it seems ALMOST working. "Almost" because it sorts all organizations well except the last one, which is bigger then first before last, like this:
Org PLevel KFG
111 15 100
112 14 90
109 14 65
115 12 30
110 13 89
Second, it doesn't work at all than I got Date in rows (doesn't matter Organization is far left or no)...
Edited by: Gediminas Berzanskis on May 11, 2010 1:56 PM -
Hi i have created a site which does a search from our
database to get client for clients details. I want the page to
display what the client is looking for and allow them to sort the
results in the way required. The can sort by surname, Property
address, Casework , Broker, Transaction, date instructed, and date
last updated.
Any ideas.quote:
Originally posted by:
cybertek23
Hi i have created a site which does a search from our
database to get client for clients details. I want the page to
display what the client is looking for and allow them to sort the
results in the way required. The can sort by surname, Property
address, Casework , Broker, Transaction, date instructed, and date
last updated.
Any ideas.
google "javascript sort" -
[Desktop][Music] sort search results
Please restore the ability to sort search results (by song title, artists, etc). I'm on the mac desktop app. Why did you ever remove this? I often search for covers, and want to isolate the song titles from others that show up by keyword.
Updated: 2015-07-14Hello and thanks for the feedback!
Any news regarding this request will be announced in the original idea topic here:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Bring-Back-Sorting-in-Search-Results/idi-p/757011
Please add your kudos and comments there, if you haven't already. ;) -
Spotlight results don't include Contacts
For some reason, I'm not getting any Contacts in my Spotlight results. I went into System Preferences / Spotlight, and Contacts is the first checked choice.
Do I need to re-index? Is there some other way to point Spotlight to Contacts?So I get a lot of cellular calls from friends on my land line house phone. All my Caller-ID says is 'Cellular Call'. I recently upgrade to Leopard (currently running 10.5.7).
I used to be able (running Tiger) to type in the last four digits of the phone number in Spotlight and before the third ring, Spotlight would have found the contact in Address Book and display the name of the contact. In Address Book I can type the four digits and it'll find the contact fine. Type the same four digits in Spotlight and it won't find the contact.
I have:
1) rebuilt Spotlight's database numerous times via Spotlight's Preferences (adding the volume to Privacy, restart the Macintosh, removing the volume from Privacy)
2) uncehecked and rechecked Contacts in Search Results
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Hello, I was looking for a mail message that I was sure was still in my inbox by typing in a word from it in Spotlight. The message appeared in the results, but I don't know where it is located within. I saw a topic in here about Control- or Command- clicking on the result and then selecting Open Enclosing Folder but the only thing that happens when I do that is the message shows in my Desktop and there is no option to select anything. Can someone help me find where this message is? Thanks!
Ok, I clicked on the message in the Spotlight results then when I clicked on Show in Mailbox, though, it just brought the Mail window to the front. Hmm, maybe it isn't in the Mail library, I thought. But when I followed sig's instructions the message I was looking for happened to be the fifth one down (sorry, I just migrated over from a PC and just now figured out what 'home' is). I previewed each of the messages using Quick Look, but would rather something tell me that this message was 3893.emlx right off. I then wanted to put the message back in my Inbox so I dragged it over to POP-username/INBOX.mbox/Messages, but it doesn't show up in the Mail window Inbox. Hmm... Should I not be able to 'restore' the message to my Inbox? Am I doing something wrong?
Also, I looked for Show Paths in both Mail and Finder helps but no luck. Where is that?
Well, the message definitely exists on my drive, but it doesn't want to behave like a mail message anymore. : ( Any suggestions? Thanks for the help!
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Spotlight results appearing in icon mode
For some reason my spotlight results appear in icon mode instead of list mode. This happens only when I type in an existing finder window. If is bring up a spotlight search window with command-option-space, the results are in list mode.
This started happening soon after 10.6 upgrade.
It happens in other logins as wellWelcome to our community, gillt40
If there were a single issue that seems to have plagued
Captivate, you have hit it. E-Mail reporting is so far from
reliable it isn't funny. The unfortunate part is that there are no
answers. There is no magick solution for it. No setting you can
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the posts I see here day after day after day that report the same
thing, it's mostly miss.
The fact of the matter is that the only really reliable
reporting you will find is if you use a Learning Management System
(LMS) as that was how Captivate was designed to work best.
Sorry, but all I can do is tell the truth. Then stand back.
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