By default, the GUI displays the filters panel on the left of the results area. You can adjust the width of the panel, and hide it by squeezing it completely. The width will be memorized for the next session.
The panel is only active in Query Language search mode, and it
allows filtering by date or filesystem location, by adding date: and
dir: clauses to the effective query text.
The dates filter can be activated by clicking the checkbox. It has two assisted date entry widgets, for the minimum and maximum dates of the search period.
The directory filter displays a subset of the filesystem directories, reduced to the
indexed area, as defined by the topdirs list and the name exclusion
parameters. Some directories may not be shown at all, depending on their (lack of) indexable
content and other indexing parameters.
By default, the depth of the displayed tree is limited at 2 levels under the start directories. You can change this in the GUI Preferences, User interface panel. Please note that increasing the depth can strongly delay the GUI startup, you should experiment by single increments if you want to change the value.
You can independantly select and deselect directories by clicking them. Note that
selecting a directory will activate the whole subtree for searching, there is no need to
select the subdirectories, and no way to exclude some of them
(use Query
language dir: clauses if this is needed).
