How can you work with Google wave? Well, in my Previous Post( How To use Google Wave?) I had discussed about Google Wave in much summarized way. To continue from there I am going to list out some important commands that can help you working with Google waves.

1) Search Commands:

This is a quick guide to the operators and restricts supported by wave search  Keywords.
1) about:[keyword] — To find waves which have [keyword] occurring anywhere.
2) title:[keyword] — To find waves which have [keyword] in the title.
3) caption:[keyword] —To find waves which have an attachment where [keyword] occurs in the Caption.

2) Status Commands:

1) is:read —To find all read waves.
2) is:unread —To find all unread waves.
Note: you cannot currently do a search like “-is:read” by itself and get reliable results due to an outstanding restriction on mega-store queries.
3) is:mute — To find all muted waves.
4) is:unmute — To find all waves not muted.
5) is:active — To Find Waves currently the same as is:unread.
6) is:note — To find all waves which have you as the only participant and contributor.

3) Participants Search Commands:

1) from:[address] — To find waves from the participant identified by the address.
2) from:meTo identifying waves from yourself.
3) by:[address] — It is same as from:[address].
4) to:[address] — To find waves which are a dialogue between you and the participant identified by the address.
5) with:[address] — To find waves that have the participant identified by the given address explicitly listed.
6) owner:[address] — To find waves by person, that they created.
7) only:[address] — To find waves to which only the participant specified by the given address contributed.

4) Date Search Commands:

Currently, there are a few restricts to use these commands:
1) past:[date term] —To find all waves in the last period.
2) previous:[date term] — To find all waves in the period before the last period.
3) before:[date term] — To find all waves before a certain period.
4) after:[date term] — To find all waves after a certain period.

Which can be combined with date terms:
day
week
month
year
So you can have “ past:week, past:year “.
There is also support for past:N[date term] where N > 0.
So you can have past:3days (today, yesterday, the day before yesterday).
Also you can have
past:Ndays
past:Nweeks
past:Nmonths
past:Nyears
Finally, you can abbreviate days, weeks, months and years to a single letter (d, w, m, y). Thus you
can write
past:3d
past:2w

5) Folders Commands:

1) in:[folder name] — To find waves in the folder with the given name.
For example, in:inbox.
2) in:[search name] — To find waves in the saved search with the given name.
3) is:unfiled —To find waves which have not been moved to a user folder.
4) is:filed —To find waves which belong to some user folder.

6) Attachments Commands:

1) has: attachment— To find waves with an attachment. This changed from “is:image”.
2) has:document— To find waves with an attachment which is a document.
3) has:image —To find waves with an attachments which is an image.
4) Caption:[keyword]—To  find waves with an attachment with caption containing [keyword].
5) filename:[keyword] — To find waves with an attachment with filename containing [keyword].
6) mimetype[keyword]— To find waves with an attachment with mimetype containing [keyword].

7) Tags Search Commands:

1) tag:[tag name] — To find waves with the tag [tag name].

8 ) Gadgets Commands:

1) has:gadget — To find waves which contain a gadget.
2) gadget:[keyword] —To find waves which contain a gadget with name containing keywords. e.g. chess, map.
3) gadgeturl:[keyword] — To find waves which contain a gadget with urls containing keyword.
4) gadgettitle:[keyword] —To find waves which contain a gadget with a title containing keywords.

9 )  Expressions Commands:

1) foo & bar — match waves with foo and bar.
You can use AND, or skip the operator altogether, as the logical and is the default.
2) foo | bar — match waves with foo or bar (or both).
3) foo OR bar — match waves with foo or bar (or both).
4) -foo — match waves that do not contain foo.
Note:There is an outstanding bug that causes searches with only negative terms to fail. To get around it, use to:me -foo) “foo … bar” — matches waves that contain the exact phrase “foo … bar” (There is an outstanding bug for live search not working with phrases).
5) foo & (bar | -baz) — matches waves that contain foo and either bar or do not contain baz.

10) XML Search Commands:

1) tags:subtag — To find all waves which have this combination.
2) tag:[tag] — To find all waves which have this .
3) attribute:[value keyword] — To find all waves which have < …. attribute=value …>
where keyword is a token in value.

11) Folders Commands:

You can add a folder by using the Add button on the folders section of the Navigation panel. A folder is added by typing the folder name in the text box given and hitting enter.
Folders can be managed using the pop-up menu that shows when hovering over the folder on the Navigation panel.
1) Add folder – A sub-folder can be added under the current folder.
2) Rename – rename the current folder.
3) Delete – delete the current folder.

12) Find Public Waves:

1) with:public:Tag:[keyword]– To find all public waves with tag as Keyword in Wave.

Happy Waving!!!

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Related posts of interest:

1. How to use Google Wave?

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