DCML - INDUCKS - help on searching

Code

The code field should be the story code of a story. There are various ways to write story codes. You don't always have to use the variants preferred in the Inducks. Some other variants are converted automatically.

Title

Known bugs: Only the original title, as listed in the Inducks, is searched - not translated titles.

Pages

The pages field can be filled in several ways.

• You can write an exact number of pages, like 9.5, 9 1/2 or 9 ½.
• You can prefix a number of pages with < or > to get stories with less or more than the indicated number of pages, for example >100 to get really long stories.
• You can give an interval with - or .. like 9-10 or 1 1/2 .. 2. Any endpoint can be empty, so 6- means six or more pages.

Known bugs: Some stories in the database have a partial page indicated by +. All those pages are treated as if they are half a page, so with the search criterion >7.5 stories listed as having 7+ pages won't be found, even though some of them may actually have 7 3/4 pages for instance.

(This will probably never be fixed, as it will go away by itself as the exact page count is entered for more and more of those stories.)

Character

A character that appears in the story. You can use full name (like Donald Duck), the official Inducks abbreviation (like DD) or often other parts of the name (like Donald). Case doesn't matter.

Known bugs:

• For some ambiguous names the search chooses one character to search for. The choice is not always very intuitive.
• When only some appearing characters are listed in the Inducks (as opposed to (almost) all) it will find stories where that character is the title character too. Sometimes that character actually doesn't appear in the story, but that is uncommon.

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