What's new in FoxTrot Professional
What was new in FoxTrot Professional 3.0
- Enhanced, more compact layout
- Tabbed search view - wide screen layout
- Predefined locations to assist in indexing
- Language, OpenMeta, Label & Author categorizations
- Tabbed document views
- Secondary search with chapters
- Further version 3 improvements
- 64 bit performance
- FoxTrot System Menu
- Template used for AppleScript & System Menu
- Enhanced Search Templates
- Basic AppleScript support
- Index Disk Images
- Index FileServer & TimeCapsule volumes
- Index FileServer & TimeCapsule afpLocs
- Indexing of Finder Comments
CTM FoxTrot Professional Search is a powerful find-by-content solution for legal, media or mobile professionals and their networks, which offers precision tools for finding the proverbial “needle in a haystack” within PDF, HTML, word processing, e-mail and rich-media metadata.
Leveraging and extending far beyond Mac OS X’s buit-in Spotlight, CTM FoxTrot Professional Search builds on years of experience in search functionality refined within CTM’s PowerMail and FoxTrot Personal Search products; its latest versions are available to users of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, and 10.6 Snow Leopard (10.5 and earlier supported in version 3.2.2 / see download page) and includes:
FEATURES
Dynamic categorization In order to "zero in" on the documents which really matter, FoxTrot lets you narrow the number of hits by clicking on several categories, which are dynamically generated based on the information and content of found files. This advanced process, derived from scientific investigation techniques, lets you successively tag hits by file kind, age or parent folder. Dynamic categorization is a unique FoxTrot feature.
Flexible relevance ranking Typical searches yield too many results: FoxTrot Perso- nal Search‘s exclusive ranking mechanism weighs each search result, and displays most relevant documents first. If you‘re overwhelmed by the number of matches, a slider setting will repeat the search with a more discriminating eye.
Wildcards, exclusions and more Searches are performed on full words by default; they can be made to include: - words "beginning with" given characters - all words in a search string - at least one of the words - an exact phrase or portion of sentence - any term except as well as complex search patterns combining several criteria.
BENEFITS
FoxTrot Professional Search delivers an ultra-fast and precise find-by-content solution, while extending Spotlight with a vast array of additional search possibilitie and supporting all the file types translated by the Spotlight importer plug-ins (including metadata indexing). The built-in document preview additionnaly offers enhanced PDF display and navigation. FoxTrot Professional Search also offers:
- Multiple categories of relevance-ranked results
- Document preview and full view, with secondary document-level search
- Multiple indexed collections and timed updates without the application launched
- Client-server access to peer-to-peer and dedicated CTM FoxTrot Search servers
- Worldwide Unicode language support
Beyond searching your own machine, FoxTrot Professional lets you connect to both workgroup-level FoxTrot peer-to-peer servers (enabled with 5-user licenses) and dedicated FoxTrot Search Servers (included with 10-user licenses and higher).
FoxTrot Professional Search is relevant to anyone with documents saved for future reference; in field testing, the product has been especially well received in legal (law firm and courts), media (newsrooms researchers, ad agencies and editors) and mobile contexts (MacBook users with local or server-based document collections).
