9. Automatic coding and Word Trees
How to:
Search: In the Ribbon view, choose the tab "Explore", choose “Text Search”.
Choose sources:
- Select the files you wish to search in (selected items to choose certain files or "files & externals" to search in everything).
- In the option “Text Search Criteria” and in the field “Search for”: write the word(s) you want to search for.
- You can also play around with the slider bar under "Find", indicating if you are searching for the word in its exact form, synonyms, etc.
- There are several advanced search options. These can be found in the dropdown menu “Special”.
Here is and example of how to search with AND/OR and the special signs:
- visualise OR visualize
- visuali?ation
- visual*
- psycho* AND measur*
- "psychological measures"
* truncates the word and means that any ending the word might have after the * will be included.
? is a joker that replaces any one single letter in the word.
Perform search: Click “Run Query” to perform search.
Add results to project:
Click on the "Reference" tab on the far right hand side of the interface to view the text snippets containing your searched term(s).
Select the text snippet (Ctrl + a).
Choose "Code Selection" and code to a new or existing code.
Optional: before coding, right click and choose "coding context" to increase the number of words around your searched term(s).
Save search: You can save your search query by clicking “Save Criteria…”. Give the search a title, describe the search and click “OK”. You can now find your searches in the menu "Search">“Query Criteria” in the Navigation menu, under "Queries" Queries are automatically updated when you run the query over new content.
Word Tree – how to:
After you have made your query and clicked “Run”, your results will automatically show.
Choose “Word Tree” in the tab to the far right of the listed results.
By highlighting parts of the text in the word tree you can run new searches and identify where the searched terms appear in the searched files.