ActiveCounts
ActiveCounts is a feature of Omnidex that allows counts to be an interactive, visible part of any search. ActiveCounts allows you to present the available criteria at each step of the search, complete with real-time counts, refined by the criteria entered so far.
Take a look at the video to see ActiveCounts in action
To the application designer, this provides the opportunity for a wholly different design. Many applications today try to guide the user through the steps of a search in order to preserve performance. Once the criteria have been collected, the database is queried and the results are displayed. This may preserve performance using those database systems, but it requires the user to think like an application, rather than letting the application respond to how the user thinks.
With ActiveCounts, the user can choose their own path through the data, seeing the available values appear at each step of the search, informed by counts along the way. This approach is similar to the way the user thinks, and the counts allow them to see the ramifications of their choice before they even make it.