Instructions - Buttons/Search

There are three buttons to push, + > and -> (Add, Play and flip). The search bar opens up the keyboard.

SEARCH BAR

The search bar is a major component to Filterfish. It provides the text and scope for a filter.

1. Opening up search

- Single-Tap the search bar to activate the filter function which pops up the keyboard.

- Type in any alpha-numeric character to filter all your contacts by this character.

Figure 1. Filter your contacts using the search bar and scope buttons

2. Narrowing the scope of the search

- Single-Tap one of the search scope buttons to filter by 'Name', "Company', Telephone/Email' or all of these four combined.

- Yes, it will search by telephone number, '212' or '011'

- Yes, it will search all of the associated telephone and email address, not just the top one.

- Yes, it will search in its foreign language. Japanese, Korean, Russian, Greek, etc.

- Search strings are case-insensitive and position-insensitive. Case-insensitive just means lowercase and uppercase are treated as one and the same. Position-insensitive means that 'f' or 'fi' or 'fis' is matched to not only in the beginning of a field, but also within the field. Thus, 'a' will find 'Adam', 'Alan' and also 'Mark'. However, a higher point given to those matching the first letters. Given the 'a' example, 'Adam' will receive a higher filter point than 'Mark'.

- The space balls activate and reposition on each newly entered character.

- Simply tap the background once to remove all filters, described in finger functions.

NOTE: All 20-odd address fields are not filtered since such search would take considerable time. The top four most likely fields have been chosen for performance reasons in an animated environment on a hand-held device.

BUTTONS

1. Starting a new contact

Single-Tap the far left + button will open a New Contact interface. Add a new contact and press OK, or Cancel.

2. Filter those contacts on screen

Single-Tap the middle Play > button will put the balls in their filter rank. 100%, 90% ...

Figure B. Press the middle play button to force balls to their proper ranked position. The right cycle button is gone in version 1.1 and replaced with a violent shake movement that permits ball to roam free.

NOTE: In Filterfish version 1.2 you can rotate two fingers clockwise or counter clock wise to filter or rank toward the top or bottom of the screen.

3. Show the table view

Single-Tap the far right 'Table' button will flip over to a typical table view with contacts ordered in the same sequence. The search bar remains on top.

- The icons in the table view provide a way of seeing which contact has present or missing information.

- Tap the entry in the table also brings up the exact same contact interface as

Figure C. Tap the right flip button to flip the view to a table view, which shows names, and icons

- Just tap the row to access the contact screen.

OTHER

1. Shake the iPhone, iPad or iPod device in order to activate the accelerometer and move space balls around the screen.

NOTE: This action replaces the previous cycle button which seemed confusing for some users.