Execute an Advanced Search

The Advanced Search functionality enables you to filter your search results, based on the criteria that certain users (with appropriate rights) have created for others to execute. The criteria can be:

• Constituent class of the Items

• Attribute relationship between Items

• Lifecycle status of the Items

• Attributes of related Items

If you do not know the exact attribute value to filter your search results, you can enter an alphabet or wildcard character, and get a list of all the available values, starting with the entered term.

When a Related Item criteria is used, matches are made against the related objects, but the source objects are displayed in the results.

The Like operator has an implied wildcard on the end of the filter. For example, Like=A is interpreted as Like=A%.

When the Not option is used on a Related Item criteria, the logic applied is NOT (association AND related type AND filter).

To execute an Advanced Search:

1. In the Global Navigation Panel, select .

   The Search Panel opens, displaying an option under the Search box, to toggle between Simple Search and Advanced Search.

2. Select .

3. If you want the ID or name of the search filters to be displayed, select Prompt.

4. In the Add Filters pane, select for each filter to add a filter criteria.

5. In the drop-down box for each filter, type an alphabet or a wildcard character, and then select the arrow.

   All the available filter criteria appear in a scrolling list.

   

6. Select a filter criteria, and then select .

   The search results are displayed in a list.