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Version 2: Instant Usage of Additional Information

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With the new version, it is now extremely easy to directly use any kind of additional information about the sample (like the elements that can or must be present), without the need to open a separate dialog like in the previous version. All corresponding selections you make on the "Restraints" or "Additional entries" tabs on the upper right-hand side are instantly reflected in the Results list at the bottom of the screen (and of course also apply to the entries that are investigated during the Search-Match calculation).

Match! now uses the same perpetual restrainting mechanism that you may already know from Pearson's Crystal Data: While entering your selection criteria, any modification will instantly be reflected e.g. in the table of resulting entries and the entry count.

As an example, we assume that you would like to enter the additional information that the element Si must be present. Here is what the screen looks like before:

Screen shot of version 2 before the new selection criterion 'Si must be present' is entered.

Now, simply press on the element "Si" in the periodic table on the upper right hand side. The Results list at the bottom is instantly modified: All entries for Al2O3 (Corundum) that were present before are now gone, and the number of entries matching your selection criteria (displayed to the right of "Restraints" on the tab control) has been significantly reduced (from 74228 to 6915):

Screen shot of version 2 after the new selection criterion 'Si must be present' is entered.

In a similar manner, it is also possible to add specific entries to the table of candidate entries (Results list) at the bottom:
Simply click on the tab "Additional entries", then enter the corresponding selection criteria like you just did with the element "Si". For example, in order to add Quartz to your list of candidate entries, simply type "quartz" in the corresponding field next to "Name:" on the "Additional entries" tabsheet. All entries which match this selection criterion will instantly be added to the table of candidate entries, so you can e.g. compare them to your experimental pattern.

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