This isn’t the first time Mythicsoft has sponsored a local youth football team, but I liked the picture so much that I thought I’d share it. Congratulations to all the lads for another great season.

We’ve recently added two new YouTube videos describing features customers are often unaware of:

Column Filters

Column filters provide a quick way to filter the results of a search. Quite often, when people ask difficult ‘How do I search for’ questions, the answer is to use Column Filters to refine the search. More information can be found here:

https://help.mythicsoft.com/filelocatorpro/v9/en/filelistview.htm

Index Searching Tips

Since the index interface doesn’t have separate fields for separate search features it can be harder to figure out how to describe your search. This video aims to show common index search techniques. More information can be found here:

https://help.mythicsoft.com/filelocatorpro/v9/en/index-interface.htm

What’s next?

We have a few more ideas for videos but if you would like to see a video on a specific feature please send the request to Technical Support.

We’ve been ‘dog-fooding‘ the next major version for a few weeks now and everything is looking really nice, there’s still a few issues but work is progressing well. One of the areas that has had a big revamp is the visual themes, here’s an example of the new ‘Blue’ theme:

If you look closely you’ll also see a language change from ‘DOS Expression’ to ‘Wildcards’. The term ‘DOS Expression’ has been used in the product for over twenty years but now, when some of our younger users have never heard of DOS, the decision was made to gracefully retire the term from the UI.