On the "Composition" page of the Restraints tab you can enter conditions concerning the elements which may be present in the entries, the number of different elements and the formula sum. Besides this, you can define names and inorganic compounds as selection criteria.
"All" elements with background in green have to be present in each resulting entry. |
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"Any" (at least one) of the elements with blue background has to be present in each resulting entry. |
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The presence of elements with yellow background is "Optional". They may be present, but do not necessarily have to. |
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"None" of the elements marked in red may be present, or, in other words, entries in which at least one of these elements is present are excluded from the resulting answer set. |
It is possible to define a large variety of elemental restraints using this mechanism: By default, all elements are marked as "optional" (yellow). If you would like to change the "status" of an element, first click on the corresponding option (color) in the "Element selection by mouse" box below the periodic table, then click on the element(s) you would like to change to this "color".
You can mark all "optional" elements as "excluded" (and vice versa) by clicking the Toggle button in the "Element selection by mouse" box. If you get confused, you can return to the default state by pressing the "Reset" button below.
Of course, it is also possible to manually enter the desired name(s) (or fragments) directly in the input line. Once you have the name, just wait for a short moment; Match! will instantly use this new criterion and update the candidate list automatically.
Normally, the exact matching of the restraints criterion
you enter is required. However, if you know only a part of a search string, you can use text fragment searching, by inserting
one or more so-called "wild card character(s)" ('*'). This character replaces unknown part(s)
of the string. For example, if you enter "quartz*" as name, all entries/compounds whose name which begins
with "Quartz" will be accepted, e.g. "Quartz low", "Quartz" or "Quartz high". It is also possible to use
multiple "*" characters in a string: If you know only a part "amin" of a compound's name, you can enter
"*amin*" to search for all compounds whose name contains "amin", e.g. "Benjaminite" or "Dodecahydro-arachno-bis-amine".
Please note that text fragment searching only works with text (string) database fields like "Name", "Space group", "Color", "Author" or "Journal".
Without wildcard characters, the exact match is required in these cases.
If you would like to enter more than a single name, you have to separate them using a semi-colon. In this case, the logical combination is "OR", i.e. any of the names will be accepted. For example, you can search for entries of all Quartz and Tridymite modifications (high-temperature and low temperature) by entering "quartz;tridymite" in the "Name" input field.
You can delete the current contents of the "Name" input field by pressing the "Delete contents" button to the right of the corresponding input field.