Model Manager combines all search words that you write with AND-logic. In practical terms this means that the models and files included in a returned search result are such that all search words matched in the searched fields.

An example from the Application Libraries window: If you import busbar.mph found under COMSOL Multiphysics>Multiphysics into a database, it may, for example, have the following fields:

You can find this model by writing some or all of the search words: busbar example multiphysics. The first word, busbar, matches on a word in the title and the description, the second word, example, matches a word in the description, and the last word, multiphysics, matches an assigned tag.

You can use a wildcard asterisk character in a search word to match zero or more arbitrary characters when searching in a branch with Item fields and content configured — see Searching in Branches. Appending, for example, a wildcard to a search word will match that word against the beginning of a word or the whole word in the searched text. See also Wildcard Matching.

You can also match on phrases — that is, multiple words in a sequence — by enclosing search words in quotation marks. Searching on “conduct direct current” will match in the description in the above example, while other permutations of these search words will not match. See also Phrase Matching.

Including a wildcard asterisk character or using phrase quotation marks have no special meaning when Searching in Branches with Only text and tags configured or when Searching in Snapshots and Commits. Model Manager will, however, automatically append an implicit wildcard to each search word in those cases.