Finding Project Items by Name

You can find project items based on their name or characters contained in their name. For example, you could find all the sources, nodes and sets that have North somewhere in their name.

To find project items by name:

  1. Ensure the Find Bar is visible at the top of List View. To show the Find Bar, select Find on the Tools menu and then click the Find option.

  2. In the Find Bar, enter the item name (or any part of the name) in the Look for field. The name can include wildcards  

    A wildcard character is a keyboard character such as an asterisk (*) or a question mark (?) that is used to replace one or more characters when you are searching for project items such as sources, nodes or sets.

    Wildcard

    Description

     

    Asterisk (*)

    Use the asterisk as a substitute for zero or more characters.  

    For example: g*t will find names that contain get, great and gt

    Question mark (?)

    Use the question mark as a substitute for a single character in a name.

    For example: g?t  will find names that contain get and gate but not great or grunt

  3. From the Search In drop-down list, select the folder you want to search.

  4. Click the Find Now button.

Items matching the criteria are displayed in List View. From here, you can open items, add items to a set, print items, copy items to a model and so on.

Using Advanced Find

You can also use Advanced Find to locate project items by name (combined with other criteria if required):

  1. On the Tools menu, click Find.

  2. Click the Advanced Find option.

The Advanced Find dialog box is displayed.

  1. Click the Advanced tab.

  2. From the Look for drop-down list  (at the top of the dialog), click the required item type.

  3. From the Interaction drop-down list, click Name.

  4. From the Option drop-down list, click Is Exactly if you know the exact name—or Contains if you know part of it.

  5. Enter the name or part of the name in the Value field.

  6. Click the Add to List button.

  7. Click the Find Now button.

Items matching the criteria are displayed in List View. From here, you can open items, add items to a set, print items, copy items to a model and so on.

Find Bar:

  1. On the FindBar, click the Options button.

  2. Click the Advanced Find option.

  3. Click the Advanced tab.

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