DTBuild quick-start info

Use File-Search.dxd to search for strings in text files :

• specify the files to search
• specify the string(s) to search for
• run
• view the results

File-Search.dxd produces other results you can inspect by pressing the appropriate View button :

• results - text
• files with hits
• stats

• download, install and start DTBuild
• press the "Find a solution" button
• select File-Search.dxd
• press the "Define input" button
• modify the list of file specifications to include the files you wish to search
• press the OK button to close the Input Streams dialog
• press the "Define search items" button
• enter the text strings to be sought
• press the OK button to close the Search Items dialog
• press the Run button
• wait for the scan to complete
• press the "View results - HTML" button

Use EMail-Search-Text.dxd to search for strings in email messages :

• specify the folders to search
• specify the string(s) to search for
• run
• view the results

Hint - set your message profile prior to running DTBuild email parsers :

• select Options | Message, move to the Profile field and press F1
• Select the appropriate profile
• press the OK button to close the Profile dialog
• press the OK button to close the Message Options dialog

This will eliminate profile selection dialogs from the messaging system.

• download, install and start DTBuild
• press the "Find a solution" button
• select EMail-Search-Text.dxd
• press the "Define input" button
• modify the list of message stores / folders you wish to search (press F1 for help)
• press the OK button to close the Folders dialog
• press the "Define SearchText" button
• enter the text strings to be sought
• press the OK button to close the SearchText dialog
• press the Run button
• wait for the scan to complete
• press the "View Results" button
• a web browser window should open with the results of the search

Use Web-Extract-Number.dxd to extract numbers from a list of web pages  :

• specify the number's label
• specify the URLs to search
• run
• view the results

• download, install and start DTBuild
• press the "Find a solution" button
• select Web-Extract-Number.dxd
• press the "Define Label" button
• specify the label preceding the number to be extracted
• press the "Define input" button
• modify the list of URLs to include the web pages you wish to extract data from
• press the OK button to close the URLs dialog
• press the Run button
• wait for the scan to complete
• press the "View Results" button
• a web browser window should open showing a table with one "scraped" number per web page