Regular search

Which question does the Regular search answer to?

What language property-values are in the interested group?

I see, but what does it mean the property-values?

That's an hard question... but let me try to explain:

• every language has several properties
• for each property you have a specific value set (or not set) The regular search let you search - like a filter - the dataset in the group driven by Language / Property / Property-Value Constraints. You can also decide to hide some fields and scope your search to specific ones: like Show me only property with values.

To do this use the Fields filter on the Display box on top of the page:

You could also filter languages by specific values, selecting some Constraints in all the boxes below.

Example:

Whichever language has no Subject Verb ( No value) word order and Verb Object ( Yes value)?

And click Search.

CONSTRAINTS:

• Subject Verb Property, only No values.
• Verb Object Property, only Yes values.

Think to a dataset like the following:

Property Name	Faroese	Fijian	French	Finnish
Subject Verb	Yes	No	No	Yes
Adjective Degree	No	Yes	Yes	-
Verb Object	No	Yes	Yes	-

The resulting languages are: Fijian and French.

But, in general, you might want to ask something like:

Can I search for any Property values in the dataset?

Of course you can search this. Go to the Search Page, select the Subject Verb and Verb Object as Constraint Properties for the search.

CONSTRAINTS:

• Subject Verb Property, all values.
• Verb Object Property, all values.

and for the following dataset:

Property Name	Faroese	Fijian	French	Finnish
Subject Verb	Yes	No	No	Yes
Adjective Degree	No	Yes	Yes	-
Verb Object	No	Yes	Yes	-

The result it's this:

Language	Property	Value
Faroese	Subject Verb	Yes
Faroese	Verb Object	No
Fijian	Subject Verb	No
Fijian	Verb Object	Yes
French	Subject Verb	No
French	Verb Object	Yes
Finnish	Subject Verb	Yes

But what if I want to set also Languages as Contraints?

Of course you can! Now we add to the Contraints select above the Languages Fijian, French and Finnish.

CONSTRAINTS:

• Subject Verb Property, all values.
• Verb Object Property, all values.
• Only Languages: Fijian, French, Finnish.

The result will be the following:

Language	Property	Value
Fijian	Subject Verb	No
Fijian	Verb Object	Yes
French	Subject Verb	No
French	Verb Object	Yes
Finnish	Subject Verb	Yes

Assumptions

If you don't select any Property / Language / Property-Value the action performed by the search engine is to search without any constraint. Each Constraint box is independent from the next one: selecting only Property constraints, the engine will perform the search through all values for those Properties in all available Languages in the dataset.

Limits

There are limits on the size of searchable entries: in case your search will overpass the number of allowed by the search engine - usually on very huge datasets/groups - you will be redirected again to the Search Page with a notification on top page asking to add some constraint to the search.