Search Results

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The search results frame is displayed:

• In the Advanced Search page, after you perform an advanced search.
• In the Simple Search page, after you perform a simple search as a non-social user.

The search results for an advanced search have:

• A header, on top, with several options and actions.
• The results panel.
• A panel with filters to apply to the search results.

Results Header

Above the search results, you can access the following options and actions:

Item	Description
View as table View as html	Switches the search results view between the HTML view (default) and the table view.
Hide details View details (HTML view)	Hides or shows the details in the search results. If you hide the details, search results provide only show the breadcrumb trail and the relevance. See Results Panel.
Add to favorites	Opens a window to add the current advanced search to your list of Favorite Searches. See Saving Favorite Searches.
Send by email	Opens a window to send the current advanced search by email. See Sending Searches By Email.
Print	Opens a printable version of the current search results, and asks your web browser to print it.
Configure this view (table view)	Opens the Search Results Configuration page, where you can customize the search results table view.
Order By (HTML view)	Lets you configure the search field to sort the results, and the order, either ascending or descending. By default, most relevant results come first. Click a field name to select it to sort the results. The ascending () or descending () icon is displayed on the right-hand side of the field name. You can click the field again to switch between ascending and descending order. Tip: You can further customize the search results using the table view with Configure this view.

Results Panel

In the results panel, the data matching the search string is marked in bold.

While the data displayed is the same, the aspect of the results panel changes depending on the selected type of view: the HTML view or the table view.

When you use the HTML view, each item in the list of results provides the following information:

• In the first row, you can see:
  • An icon that identifies the type of ER object.
  • The breadcrumb trail to the ER object, including the ER object itself. For example: Parent ER Object > Matching ER Object. Each ER object in the breadcrumb trail links to its ER object description page.
  • A percentage, between parenthesis, that represents the relevance of the matching ER object, given the search criteria used.
• In the second row, you can see:
  • The date of the last modification to the matching ER object.
  • The author of the last modification to the matching ER object.
• There are additional rows displaying a variety of property-value pairs. These rows depends on the ER object type of the matching ER object, for each ER object type a different set of rows is displayed.

When you use the table view, ER/Studio Team Server displays the same data, but in columns:

Column	Description
Object Name	The name of the ER object.
Object Type	The type of ER object.
Relevance	The relevance of the matching ER object (in percentage), given the search criteria used.
Modification Date	The date of the last modification to the matching ER object.
User Name	The author of the last modification to the matching ER object.
Path	The breadcrumb trail to the ER object, including the ER object itself. For example: Parent ER Object > Matching ER Object. Each ER object in the breadcrumb trail links to its ER object description page.
Property Type Property Value	Property-value pairs that provide additional information about the ER object. The property-value pairs depend on the ER object type of the matching ER object, for each ER object type a different set of property-value pairs is displayed.

Click a column name to select it to sort the results. The ascending () or descending () icon is displayed on the right-hand side of the column name. You can click the column again to switch between ascending and descending order.

Filters Panel

The filters panel is displayed on the right-hand side of the results panel when you use the HTML view, or at the bottom of the results panel when you use the table view.

In the panel, you can find a variety of filtering options to apply to the search results. Each filtering option has the following appearance:

Filter By <Filter type>

<Filter name> (<Filter count>)

<Filter name> (<Filter count>)

...

The following table explains each part of a filtering option in detail:

Item	Description
Filter type	The type of filter. This can be: Object Type(s), to filter the search results by the ER object type of the matching ER object. An ER object type that one or more matching ER objects have as parent (for example, Diagram(s)), to filter the search results by common parent.
/ Hide / Show filters	Click this icon to hide () or show () the filters available in the current filtering option.
/ Limited / Unlimited filters	Click this icon to switch on or off the limit of filters that can be listed in the current filtering option: : Listed filters are limited. : All filters are listed.
Make mandatory	Adds the filter on the right-hand side of the icon to the list of active filters, as a mandatory filter. Only search results matching the selected filter are displayed.
Make excluded	Adds the filter on the right-hand side of the icon to the list of active filters, as an excluded filter. Search results matching the selected filter are not displayed.
Filter name	The name of the filter. The filters depend on the Field type: If it is Object Type(s), each filter name is an ER object type (for example, Model or Entity). If it is an ER object type, each filter is the name of an actual ER object that is a common parent to one or more ER objects in the search results.
Filter count	The number of matching ER objects in the search results that match the filter.

When you add a mandatory () or excluded () filter to the list of active filters, ER/Studio Team Server displays the list of active filters after the last filtering option. The list of active filters has the following appearance:

Current Active Filter(s)

<Filter mode> <Filter type>: <Filter name>

<Filter mode> <Filter type>: <Filter name>

...

The following table explains each part of the list of active filters in detail:

Item	Description
Remove	You can click the icon on the left-hand side of Current Active Filter(s) to remove all active filters. Click the icon to the left-hand side of a specific filter to remove only that filter.
/ Filter mode	This is an icon representing the filter mode, either mandatory () or excluded ().
Filter type	The type of filter. For more information, see the table above.
Filter name	The name of the filter. For more information, see the table above.

See Also

• Using the Advanced Search of ER Objects