#### Overview

This section describes general aspects of the Search Result editor.

##### Example screenshot

##### Layout

The Search Result editor has a multi-column layout, one column for each returning attribute defined in search parameters. Each line represents a search result with its values.

The cells have the following meaning:

- A value indicates that the entry has such an attribute with exacly one value.

- An empty cell indicates that the entry hasn't such an attribute.

- X values: ... indicates that the entry has multiple values for that attribute.

You can choose whether the DN of each search result is displayed as first column. Toggle Toolbar menu -> Show DN .

##### Fonts and Colors

To distinguish the different attribute classes the Search Result editor uses the same fonts and colors as the Entry editor .

##### Toolbar

The toolbar contains the following items:

Icon | Action | Description | Shortcut
--- | --- | --- | ---
| New Value | Adds a new value to the selected attribute and starts the edit mode. | Ctrl-+
| Delete | Deletes the selected attribute. | Delete
| Refresh | Performs the current search. | F5
| Copy Table | Copies values as displayed in the table as CSV. By default the tabulator is used as attribute delimiter, a pipe is used as value delimiter and each attribute is wrapped by double-quotes. These settings are suitable to paste the copied data into Excel or OpenOffice, the settings could be changed in Text Formats preferences . |
| Show Quick Filter | Shows/Hides the Quick Filter . | Ctrl-F

##### Drop Down Menu

The drop down menu contains the following items:

- Show DN: If checked the distinguished name of each search result is displayed as first column.

- DN as link: If checked the distinguished name of each search result is a link. Clicking to this link will open the search result entry.

- Show Decorated Values: If checked decorated values are displayed, this means some additional information is displayed:

  - Images: Image format, width, height, and size.
  - Binary data: Data size.
  - Passwords: Used hash method.
  - Timestamps: Locale dependent date and time format.
  If unchecked the raw values (as stored in directory) are displayed.

- Preferences...: Opens the Search Result editor preferences dialog.