Title: Introduction to the Rapid Selector Guide

Introduction



Traction® Software's TeamPage™ plaform is based on the idea of a Memex machine, described by Vannevar Bush in his 1945 Atlantic Monthly article As We May Think. The Rapid Selector was another of Bush's inventions, a machine that would allow the near instant recall of information stored on microfilm.

Like the Memex, Traction's Rapid Selector is a command language that lets you execute searches or switch to any Traction view with a relatively simple command or hyperlink. You can use the Rapid Selector to:



Rapid Selector commands are expressed by typing the command in the search box, within Traction article text, or encoded in a URL. Here are three examples from each of these locations which will switch your view to the ProductAlpha space dashboard.

Access Point

Method

Example

Search Box

Precede the expression with the / character

/::productalpha np

"np" was shorthand for NewsPage, the predecessor to the current "dashboard"

Section

The Filter By | Search box in Section setup (for Dashboards or within an Article) is a Rapid Selector box.

e(:todo and not :bug)

Filters for entries tagged todo but not tagged bug

Article Text

Like a wiki page link, Use the link keyword, surrounded by double brackets and but begin the expression with a /

[[/link 'ProductAlpha' ::productalpha np]]

URL Permalink and Rapid Selector link

Follow server name with /rs/

Permalink to a specific Traction article:

http://myserver:port/traction/permalink/productalpha54

Link to a space dashboard view with Rapid Selector

http://myserver:port/rs/::productalpha%20newspage



Here are a few example expressions to get you started.

Type this into the
Rapid Selector

To

/ProductAlpha12

Jump to a single article view of the entry.

/brief

Make the current view brief.

/full

Make the current view full.

/chron

Show a chronology view.

/today

Go to today.

/12jan99

Go to january 12, 1999.

/12jan99 - 18jan99

Go to the specified time period.

/week

Set the slice size to a week.

/day

Set the slice size to a day.

/12jan99 wbc

Show a brief chronology of the week containing January 12th.

/:news bmt

Show a brief view of this month's articles tagged news

/:news f

Show a full multi-topic view of the tags :news and :headline. You need only type as much of a tag as necessary to identify it uniquely.

/10 11 12

Show a multi-entry view of articles 10 through 12 in the current space.

/14 x

Show a two-panel view of article 14 in the current space. The top panel contains the normal single-entry view. The bottom panel displays a graphical cross-reference view.

/attachments

Show a view of the attachments in the current time slice.





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