Using the Results Toolbar and Search Results

The Results area located in the center of the app displays the assets returned from your current search. As illustrated below, the Results toolbar includes information about the search results as well as set of options that can be used to modify the view of the Results area.

After you complete a search, your results are displayed in the app until any of the following occurs:

You initiate a new search in the same instance of the app.

For more information, see Opening Multiple App Instances.
You close the Search app.
You sign out of MediaCentral Cloud UX, or your session automatically times-out.

The following section describes the features available in the Results toolbar — as shown from left to right.

Refresh Search

The Refresh Search button updates the existing search results with any new assets that might have been created since the last time that you executed the search.

If you hover your cursor over the Refresh button, you are presented with the ability to enable an Auto-Refresh option that automatically updates your search results every 60 seconds. When in auto-refresh mode, you can still click on the Refresh button to manually update your search results.

n The 60 second refresh-rate value is hard-coded and cannot be customized.

If the auto-refresh fails to update the search results for any reason, a warning indicator appears to the right of the Refresh button. If you hover your cursor over the warning, a tool-tip appears that tells you how long it has been since the last update.

To enable auto-refresh:

Place your cursor over the Refresh button.

The Auto Refresh menu appear to the right of the button.
Click the Auto Refresh menu to enable the feature

The menu turns blue to provide you with a visual confirmation of the change and the look of the Refresh icon changes.

When you move your cursor away from the menu, the menu disappears, but the Refresh icon maintains the updated look. Auto-refresh stays enabled until you do any of the following:
- Manually disable auto-refresh
- Clear the current search from the Search header
- Close the Search app
- Sign out of your current user session

Results Count

This number indicates the total number of found assets. If your search did not return any assets, the count in the upper-left corner of the toolbar reports zero assets.

Although the results counter provides information on the total number of returned assets, the Search app can display a maximum of 1,000 assets in the Results panel at any one time. If you create a search that does not return your desired assets within the first 1,000 items, you must refine your search to narrow the results.

In the following example, the user created a very wide search for the letter “a”. The Search app found over 32,000 assets that included that letter, but it is only displaying the first 1,000 assets.

n In some rare cases, the app might not be able to determine the total results count (the value in parentheses). In these cases the value might appear empty or might show an “out of ?” message.

View Options

The Results area is displayed in List view by default. However, you can change how the results are displayed by selecting the Card button in the Results toolbar. Depending on the selected view, assets are listed with varying levels of detail related to the associated metadata.

Button	Name	Description
	List	This view displays the asset type icon, an asset headframe, and select metadata fields listed in columns. Columns can be reordered by dragging the column header to the left or right.
	Card	This view displays the asset headframe, title, and select metadata fields. If your MediaCentral Cloud UX system is licensed for Hoverscrub, the card view allows you to scrub through media assets. For more information, see Using the Hoverscrub Feature.

Button

Name

Description

List

This view displays the asset type icon, an asset headframe, and select metadata fields listed in columns. Columns can be reordered by dragging the column header to the left or right.

Card

This view displays the asset headframe, title, and select metadata fields.

If your MediaCentral Cloud UX system is licensed for Hoverscrub, the card view allows you to scrub through media assets. For more information, see Using the Hoverscrub Feature.

Sort By Menu

Although you might have already filtered your search, the Results view can be further modified by selecting an option from the Sort By menu. This menu is populated with a list of common sorting options followed by additional metadata fields grouped by type. A scroll bar appears to the right of the menu to allow you to move up and down through the list.

You can review the list of options by using the scroll bar on the right side of the menu. Alternatively if you are looking for a specific metadata value, you can use the filter option at the top of the menu to refine the list. If the term you use to filter the list returns too many values, you can enclose the term in quotes to look for an exact match value.

Additionally, you can use the Descending / Ascending menu to flip the results form top to bottom or bottom to top.

Display Options

The Display Options menu allows you to add or remove columns to or from the Results area by selecting or deselecting check boxes in the menu. This menu respects Asset Management CBA rules which might limit the number of fields or types of metadata that are available to some users.

Similar to the Sort By menu, you can scroll through the list or enter a term to filter the list. Columns can be reordered by dragging the column header to the left or right. Additionally, you can click on the header of any column (except for Icon and Thumbnail) to sort the results list by that column of data.

Export Options

The Results toolbar includes two additional buttons that allow you to export the search results from MediaCentral Cloud UX:

Copy Results
Download Results

n When working in the Search Results area, these buttons are inactive until you select one or more assets using the processes below. If you are working in the In-line Hits window, the buttons are always active and apply to the current asset only.

Copy Results

This button allows you to copy metadata from the selected search results to a temporary buffer (the clipboard) on your local workstation. Once the information is in the buffer, you can then paste the data into an external application such as Microsoft Notepad, Mac TextEdit, or other.

To copy the search results:

Select, Shift-Click, or Ctrl-Click (Windows) or Cmd+Click (Mac) one or more assets from the search results.
Click the Copy Results button in the upper-right corner of the Results area to copy the assets to a temporary buffer.
Open another application on your local workstation to paste the contents of the buffer.

Download Results

This button allows you to export selected metadata in the search results list to a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file or a PDF. Files created in a .csv format are most commonly used in spreadsheet applications, where each comma signifies a new column in the spreadsheet.

You cannot specify the name of the file at the time of its creation. The file is automatically assigned a name based on your Date Format selection in the General section of the User Settings. For example if you select the YMD option, the file is saved in the following format:

Search Results - <YYYY-MM-DD-HH-mm-ss>.csv

The values represent the Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minutes, and Seconds.

To download the search results:

Select, Shift-Click, or Ctrl-Click (Windows) or Cmd+Click (Mac) one or more assets from the search results.
Click the Download Results button in the upper-right corner of the Results area.

The app displays a context menu with the available download options.
Select the file format of your choice (CSV or PDF) from the context menu.

The list of assets is downloaded to your local workstation. Check your browser’s settings to verify the download location.

Selecting Assets in the Search Results

You can do any of the following to select assets in the Search Results area:

Single-click (once) to select a single asset
Ctrl+click multiple non-contiguous assets
Shift+click multiple contiguous assets
(List view only) With focus in the Results area, press Shift+Up or Shift+Down to select multiple contiguous assets

n If your action selects an unavailable (offline) asset, you can use the keyboard controls to select or navigate to other online assets. If you select multiple contiguous assets, offline assets are ultimately not included in the selected data.

Opening Assets from the Search Results

After you complete a search, you can double-click on any asset to load it into another area of MediaCentral Cloud UX. Note the following:

If you double-click a Production Management or Asset Management clip, the asset loads into the Source Monitor of the Asset Editor.
If you double-click a Production Management or Asset Management sequence, the asset loads into the Record Monitor of the Asset Editor. If the Sequence Timeline is not already enabled, you must click the Timeline button in the Asset Editor to show the sequence in the timeline.

n You can Ctrl+double-click (Windows) or Command+double-click (macOS) a sequence, to load the sequence into the Source Monitor.
If you double-click a Production Archive clip or sequence, the asset loads into the Asset Editor. However due to the nature of archived assets, you are not able to play the media. In this case the Media Viewer reports that the media is offline.
If you double-click on a Newsroom Management story, the asset is loaded into the Asset Editor. You can use the Tabs area of the Asset Editor to obtain more information about the asset. If you want to work with the story, you must first dock the Search app and open the Rundown App. For more information, see Working with the Rundown App.
If you double-click a Maestro News item or template, the graphic element is loaded into the Graphics tab and the Source Monitor of the Asset Editor. For more information, see Working with Graphics Management Systems.