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Re: [Announce] scout - search contacts, conversations and calendars
It's top notch. Coupled Matan's patched hildon-desktop package, you can quite easily turn this into a "global search by typing on the home screen instead of contacts only" type thing.
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Fantastic! Search seems a lot faster, which is not weird considering the fact you can limit the amount of data to be investigated now.
Thanks again Nicolai!!! Mail search would make Scout perfect, but apparently that is difficult to create. |
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I love Scout, but seem to have a problem. It does not find all occurences of a phrase. E.g. in my contacts list I have 20 contacts in the city of New York and one named Hotel New York in the city of Rotterdam. When I search using the phrase 'York' it only finds the one in Rotterdam and none in New York. How come?
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Hi pietgispen,
thank you for reporting this. Can you export one of the contacts that isn't found as vcf and send this to my email-address? Than I can try to find out why it can not be found. (If you are afraid to send this "private" information, you can edit the vcf-file (rename the persons name and change the phone number...) regards Nicolai |
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sure, I'll be glad to. Nonen of the records have 'sensitive' data (shops and hotels etc). Where can I find your e-mail address?
Thanks Piet |
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I have just e-mailed you three sample contact items, including the one that Scout does find (see my mail)
regards, Piet |
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Sometimes (always why not) I would (just) want to see number of hits. For example if I put a word "swim" in the calendar every time I was swimming, searching over some period would tell how many times I have swimmed during that time.
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nicolai,
thanks for this great app, could you also add search for pictures using the tag system provided? oved |
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AWESOME Nicolai !!!
Thank you SO much for this much needed basic search functionality. Playing with it I notice it doesn't seem to search the "Job Title" field of the contacts which is not a major problem as such, but would be really nice to have in a future update. Thank you for this wonderful, powerful, little application! reneCschutte.com |
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How often does this do the indexing? I experience a 4-5% CPU usage increase in hildon-desktop after installing this app. Not much but I'm a freak about the battery on this phone :D.
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You're right. Sometimes the CPU % just spikes up and won't go down until a reboot. Bleh.
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I can't search for contacts using their first name. Anyone has the same problem?
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Hi,
new Version 0.0.9 Fixed bug with name search in contacts (see above). Fixed bug with address search (for some vcards address search didn't work) Fixed bug in alarm time picker for tasks.( minutes for alarm times can only be in 5 minute steps. Prior version allowed to select arbitary times (like 10:33) but these alarms were ignored. Nicolai |
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the [STOP] button doesn't seem to be working for me. I hit search, and if I find what/who I'm looking for I need to put scout in the background to finish.
Pressing [STOP] does nothing. If I press it often enough, I get the "scout not responding. Delete Y/N" dialog. |
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Hi RWFarley,
on which search options does this happens? Or can you make some tests and search only one category (contancts, calendar, conversations) and tell on which category the stop button does not work. Thank you Nicolai |
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I had all three services checked.
Test with all other Apps closed: Contacts and Conversations seem OK, but they also finish quickly. Calendar is the problem. I DO have a large calendar (~5000 entries from Outlook) but that's what the [STOP] button is for, right? :-) It does seem to have stopped adding to the results list. The "circle" is still "spinning" and the [STOP] button is blue.... |
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my scout app doesn't work well... I dont find conversations ! :(
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I hold this is application as one of the most significant extensions to the N900 in terms of added value. I tested scout on a contact list reaching almost 8000 entries, and have been absolutely thrilled by the speed and ability to search even among note's content.
I know that integrating email's content search would be a killer feature, but might be quite challenging to implement. On the other hand, there's another feature that could probably be added with less coding: multiple terms conditional search with inclusions and exclusions, maybe by simply prefacing each term with + or -. Could you set up a paypal account for donations ? I would gladly send some $ your way to support the development of a multiple terms conditional search capability. |
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I would like to integrate email search as well, but I have to dig in the
email app source to find a way to search for email content. For all other categories (Calender, Contacts ...) are documented API-Function for listing or searching content. There is something for emails as well but I couldn't get it to work. And the conditional search with inclusion and exclusion sounds good and may be simple to implement. I will try it. Quote:
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nicolai, great app, thanks.
I was wondering, although it might be difficult to implement, would it be possible for scout to take over the contact search option from the desktop, where by you open your phone and start typing a contacts name to find them. If this could be done, would it be also possible to add application search to the list? Perhaps so as you start typing a list appears of the apps installed, in the same manner as App Search Wizard does, then if you don't want an app you press search and a search of the contacts, messages and calender gets done. I don't know if a simple tweak with gconftool can easily change the behaviour of the desktop contacts search or not. I am probably wishing for too much here, but you have produced a killer app and this might be a way of making it even more usable. Then again would this be stealing App Search Wizard's glory? I don't know. |
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search from the desktop isn't configurable. At least not with the default hildon-desktop. Matans modified hildon desktop may have such an option. Quote:
of both :-) Nicolai |
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and no feedback for my problem... I just deinstall the app and install it again but nothing changed - all results just contacts and calender.. but no conversations...:(
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Hi PipoXtreme,
I don't know where to start to find the reason for this problem. I can not reproduce this. I tried many different kind of messages hacked my message-db and put some weired content in it just find the condition to reproduce this behavior. I think the only way would be, you send me your stored messages and I try to find what goes wrong. Or, I make one version of the app which prints out to a log-file. nicolai |
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Hi PipoXtreme,
here is a version which has some logging output. The zip file contains one file "scout". Copy this file to your device in the directory /home/user/ In xterm enter this command (as normal user, not root!): /home/user/scout The scout app opens. Select the category conversation and enter a search word. After the search finished close the application. Now you have the file scout_search.log in the /home/user directory. Please mail me this file, there are no private information in this file, just some logging entries so I can trace back what the application did. Nicolai |
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I've the problem I can't start the app with xterm... why this...
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Try this
chmod a+x /home/user/scout (this makes the program executable) and than try again to start the program. nicolai |
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scout searches the events in the eventlogger, the same
data you can see from the conversation app. It than tries to find the contact information for this messages. From the logfile : Quote:
it found a user/sender name and add the result to the result list. I have no idea why it doesn't show any result. nicolai edit: Ah and of course, if you enable only the conversation search, scout searches in the conversation text, it does not use the search string to search for senders. So if you want to search for messages from "mary" you will only find messages where "mary" is part of the message text. |
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and this mean everything ok in the app ? )
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No, if you search for a text which is definitly in your text messages
and scout doesn't show any result, then something is wrong with the application. But I don't know what or how to trace that back. nicolai |
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then everything is ok ... It works... i search a word which is dif. inside... and it come up
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Excellent app - THANK YOU! I was a bit upset when I couldn't find the Search utility on my N900 -- I had relied on it so much with my old Nokia E75! Now I'm happy again! :)
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