Exporting Results

Once you have results, you may wish to save them to a file. If your search has not retrieved all records, you will only be able to save the retrieved ones.  Please read the section on examining results. Starview will warn you of this situation with the following message

OK will procede into export with the subset of records. Cancel will cancel the export and allow you to complete the record retrieval.

Once you either have all the records or hit OK, you will be presented with a slightly modified save file dialog.

You may browse to a different directory and specifiy a file name and save the file in its default format. This format will save ALL of the result fields in a tab delineated text file. You may specify a special format to separate fields and/or records or select only certain fields by clicking on the format button. This will provide you with this screen.

To change the format of the saved table, check the "Use Custom ASCII Table Format Option" box.  Pulldown menues for comon field and record delineators are provided. You may also specify your own by clicking in the box and typing the character(s) you wish to use. To get tab or an end of line character set (which is correct for the machine you are on), use the {tab} or {cr} items found in the pulldown menu. For example, to format the table for TeX use, you may want to have & characters separating fields and end of line characters at the end of a line. This would look like this

You may also choose to only include certina field in the export. For this, check "Include Fields" and use the two tables to add fields to be included to the left hand side.

Once you have formatted things, click Done. You can then finish up with the save dialog and save the file.  Note formatting is reset between each export. You will have to reenter it each time.