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Navigating Around Reason: Lists

Reason displays lists of items in similar ways in various parts of the application. This page will describe some of the common features of item lists in reason.

Type Browsing/Management Page

Item links

Clicking the “Preview” link will take you to a page that shows you all the information about the item. Clicking the “Edit” link will take you to a form where you can edit the item’s information.

There are sometimes other links that depend on what type of items you are browsing, like "add child" for pages and "select" and "deselect" when associating items.

Sorting

You can sort the list by clicking on the headers for each column of the table (In this example: ID, Name, Last Modified, and File Name). The symbol indicates how the list is currently sorted; v indicates that they are ordered greatest to least and ^ indicates least to greatest.

In the example above, the items are sorted by the date they were last modified from most recent (greatest) to least recent (least).

Filter Box

Lists are usually accompanied by a filter box that allows you to search the list of items by attribute. Searches are case-insensitive, so you don't have to worry about capitalization matching.

The searches are currently exact phrase searches -- the words you enter will find items that contain that phrase exactly. For example, if there is an item with the words "I like cheese sandwiches" a search for "I like sandwiches" will not find that item, but a search for "cheese sandwiches" will.