Search

To perform a full-text search in the database, you can use the Search button . Using the Search feature, you can search the entire content of the tree structure for text strings (e.g. portions of license keys, names of software, hotfixes and more).

If no restrictions are made, all tree structures are searched.

To restrict the search to specific nodes to be searched, you can define a filter. The Search Filter dialog, that opens when you click the Filter button on the search bar, lists all meta objects. Select the meta objects to be included in the search.

For a full-text search, the following controls are available:

The combo box contains a history of the previously entered search strings. However, these search strings will be discarded when you exit Docusnap. When you restart Docusnap, the combo box will be empty again. Since the full-text search will also find word fragments in the tree view, the search string does not need to be a complete word.

When you start the search, the Number of Objects message appears. It indicates how many objects have been searched.

 

Example

If you enter the search string Microsoft Office, the tree view will be searched for items that contain the words Microsoft Office. This means that the search will find every object that contains the string Microsoft Office (software, hotfixes, printers, services, etc.).

The search results will be displayed in the upper pane of the main window. There, you can see the name, object type and path of the objects found by the search. When you double-click a search result entry in this pane, the associated object will be highlighted in the tree view and its data displayed in the lower pane.