ATR CustomTools Search

The following keyboard commands could be used to ease the navigation between the search criterias in the ATR CustomTools Search. These keyboard commands applies also to the other ATR CustomTools dialogs and side panes.

• Tab. Jumps to the next field.
• Shift + Tab. Return to the previous field.

Free Search. Given search string is searched from all of the Property values saved in to the ATR CustomTools database.

Search string can be any kind of combination of alpha-numeric characters.

Keyword that is used to search files will be also compared with the file names. If a file name contains the given search condition the file appears in the search results.

Enable/Disable ATR CustomTools to add a Wildcard characters to both ends of the search keyword by the Insert wildchar automatically to search conditions option located in the General User Options. You can also add the wildcard characters to the free search string yourself. The following Wildcard Characters table describes the wildcard characters available for the ATR CustomTools Search feature:

Wildcard Characters:

Wildcard Character	Description	Example
%	Any string of zero or more characters.	A search string %plate% finds all documents with the word "plate" anywhere in the document properties or filename.
_	Any single character.	A search string _ean finds all documents that have a four-letter string in filename or document properties that end with "ean" (Dean, Sean, and so on).
[ ]	Any single character within the specified range ([a-f]) or set ([abcdef]).	A search string [C-P]arsen finds for example author last names ending with arsen and starting with any single character between C and P, for example "Carsen", "Larsen", "Karsen", and so on. In range searches, the characters included in the range may vary depending on the sorting rules of the collation.
[^]	Any single character not within the specified range ([^a-f]) or set ([^abcdef]).	A search string de[^l]% finds for example all author last names starting with "de" and where the following letter is not "l".

The keyword specified in the Free search box searches matching content from all document properties. Also the Configuration column used to represent the model configuration name applies on a free search so you can search the specific configurations as well.

The Properties related search conditions does not limit the search results if any specific search string is typed into the Free search box.

Document Type. Specifies the document type to search for.

Available Document Types:

Part	The search returns part documents.
Assembly	The search returns assembliy documents.
Drawing	The search returns drawing documents.
Model	The search returns parts and assemblies.
Project	Select the project where you want to search the documents from. Using the project scope in search, returns only the documents assigned to the selected project and its sub-projects.

The <No project> option selected in the Properties pane for the documents that does not belong to any project, is not available in the ATR CustomTools Search feature. For that reason, in case you have documents in ATR CustomTools database that does not have any project assignment, you can search for them by using the <ALL> option in the Project box.

You can also define the desired Properties to be available as search criterias for searching documents.

When searching documents by the specific Property values, the search is executed against the database using the logical AND operator. Using the AND operator mean that all property value keywords defined in the property fields in search have to exist in values of the associated properties in the documents in order to get any search results.

Example: Search criterias Description: "Ring", DrawnBy: "MKO" return all documents that have a value "Ring" in property called "Description" and the a value "MKO" in property called "DrawnBy".

Insert a search condition to desired Property controls to restrict the search results.

You are able to decide which model related Properties can be used as search criterias by setting the option Enable property in search with the Property Wizard.

Insert a search condition to desired Property controls to restrict the search results.

You are able to decide which drawing related Properties can be used as criterias by setting the option Enable property in search with the Property Wizard.

Documents could be searched also by the Properties which type is Checkbox. Selection state of the check box used as a search condition affects to the search results as described in the following table.

Status		Effect of the search results
	Clear	The documents which does not have the checkbox property selected, are shown in the search results.
	Indeterminate	The checkbox property state is ignored in the search. None of the documents are excluded from the search results based on the checkbox state.
	Selected	The documents which do have the checkbox property selected, are shown in the search results.

• Database Search Results
• Property Wizard | Database Options
• General User Options
• Assing property values for your documents using the ATR CustomTools Properties feature
• ATR CustomTools common tips and terminology
• ATR CustomTools Viewer common tips and terminology