Retrieval Bar

The Retrieval bar is located above the contents pane in the Windows^® Explorer view of FileSphere and Microsoft^® Office dialog boxes.

If you can't see the Retrieval bar, click the Retrieval bar button, which toggles it on and off.

The Retrieval bar allows you to pinpoint documents by typing in a selection of document property and value pairs. Once you press the down arrow or start typing FileSphere prompts you with a list of properties and then once you've selected a property, FileSphere prompts you with a list of values so that you don't need to know or remember them.

Once you've entered property and value pairs, this has the effect of creating a hierarchy of folders and drilling down directly to a particular View Folder. This is a more direct method of retrieving documents than creating View Folders using View By because it removes the need to View By, select a View Folder and then View By again etc.

There's also a Retrieve using values button adjacent to the Retrieval Bar which lets you type in any word and FileSphere will display all values and properties that begin with that word, indicating which are values and which are properties. If you select a value, FileSphere will prompt you with a list of available properties to select from. If you select a property Filesphere will prompt you with a list of available values to select from.

The Retrieval Bar

Retrieval Bar prompts