Using search in DTTG

I am a heavy user of DTTG on my iPad, primarily reviewing documents stored there in pdf format. One use case is to open pdf documents and then ‘scroll through’ the document using the list of search results of a particular search term.

This is straightforward in DT3 as you can highlight the first result in the right hand search occurrences panel (see DT3 screenshot below) and then use the down arrow key to click through each of the instances of the search terms causing the relevant document page to show each the search result. In this way I can , using my keyboard, ‘scroll though’ each instance of the term appearing in the pdf document and quickly find content of interest.

Unfortunately, this does not seem to be possible in DTTG on the iPad. When you search for a term in a pdf in DTTG, you get the ‘floating’ search occurrences panel and you need to click each search occurrence to ‘jump to it’ in the document (see DTTG screen shot below). The extremely frustrating thing is once you click on a search result, the panel disappears, and you need to click the magnifying glass search icon in the menu bar to make it reappear before you can then click on the next search occurrence to ‘jump’ to it in the document. Even more frustratingly, the search occurrences panel does not indicate/remember which term you last clicked on and you find yourself needing to remember which page number referenced above the search occurrences result you last clicked on to determine which search result you need to click on next to go to the next instance of the search term in the document.

I’m really hoping that I am overlooking a way to ‘scroll through’ search occurrence in DTTG which replicates the down arrow behaviour I use in DT3? If not, or if there isn’t another work around, I guess this is a feature request for DTTG.

Many thanks in advance for any comments anyone has on this.

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Thank you for the suggestion!

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