Advanced Search Form

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The advanced search form is part of the Advanced Search page. To preform a search, fill the form and click the Search button.

The advanced search form provides the following fields to customize your search:

Item	Description
Search Text
Search Text	Enter a search string.
Include matches for similar-sounding words	Check this option if you are unsure about the spelling of your search terms.
Filters
Scope in	Choose the scope of the search. You can choose any of the following scopes to filter the search results: All (default). Search for any ER object. Data. Search only for ER/Studio Data Architect ER objects. Business. Search only for ER/Studio Business Architect ER objects.
Modification
Modified	Select a period of time to filter the search results and show only ER objects modified during that time.
By	Enter the name of a user to filter the search results and show only ER objects that the specified user modified during the selected period of time.
Object Type
Object Type	Select the ER object types that you want to search, so that ER objects of different types are excluded from the search results. To select multiple items in the list, hold the Ctrl key and click the target items. To not filter by ER object type, check the All option.
Property
Mandatory match	Enable this icon to make the property-value pair to the right-hand side a mandatory match. Search results will only include ER objects where the specified property Name has the specified Value.
Excluded match	Enable this icon to make the property-value pair to the right-hand side an excluded match. Search results will only include ER objects where the specified property Name does not have the specified Value.
Note: If both and are disabled ( ), matches for the current property-value pair are optional.
Name	The name of a property. To select the name: Click the ellipsis button. ER/Studio Team Server displays a list of properties. Tip: You can repeat this step to specify several properties at once, to search for the same value in more than one property. Select the target ER object type in the Highlight properties for combo box. Click the target property from the list of properties.
Value	Enter a valid value for the selected property. The effect of the value specified here is different depending on the selected match options: : ER/Studio Team Server favors ER objects where the selected property has this value in the search results. : The search results include only ER objects where the selected property has this value. : ER/Studio Team Server excludes ER objects where the selected property has this value in the search results.
Remove match	Removes the property-value pair fields to the left-hand side of the icon.
Add another match	Add a new set of fields to define a property-value pair to filter the search.
Sorting
Sorting	Select a criterion field to sort the search results.
Order	Click this icon to toggle the order of the search results, either ascending () or descending ().
Remove criterion	Removes the criterion field to the left-hand side of the icon.
Add another criterion	Adds a criterion field. ER/Studio Team Server uses any additional criterion field to order the results where the values of the previous criterion field are the same. For example, if your first criterion field orders by Type, and you add a second criterion field that orders by Name, ER/Studio Team Server orders the search results first by type, and those results that have the same type are ordered by name.
Pagination
Pagination	Select the number of results to show per page.
Generated Query (only after a search)	You can specify every option that you can define using a field in the search form using some keyword or special syntax in the Search Text field. After you perform an advanced search using any search field in addition to the Search Text field, ER/Studio Team Server displays in Generated Query the search string that, used in the Search Text field, throws the same results as your current combination of several search fields.

See Also

• Using the Advanced Search of ER Objects
• Search Results