It also provides facilities for searching the dictionary for individual or groups of messages. Prior to performing a search, all messages in the dictionary are displayed. They can be viewed either in form view where one message is displayed per screen, or in tabular view where many messages are displayed as rows in a table. Form view has the advantage of showing more information about each message including the graphical symbols of the corresponding symbol sequence, but is less convenient for browsing through the complete dictionary. Following a search, the messages displayed are restricted to only those that match the search criteria.
Complex searches are possible.
For example, selecting all dictionary entries within a given theme AND that have a certain first symbol AND are used by a specific user. Searches allow the user to perform operations such as determining if a given message exists in the dictionary and finding its symbol sequence, visually browsing messages specific to a certain user, and finding out what symbols have been used for messages within a particular theme. This allows therapists to produce vocabulary listings or therapy worksheets for a certain user. The format of the printed output is highly customisable. The format of each page is based on a grid of cells arranged in rows and columns.