Searching Versions
Whenever you search for model versions and file versions in a Model Manager database, you can select between two search modes: Latest Versions for Location () or All Versions in Database (). These two modes correspond to searching in the subset of versions that are the latest versions saved on a particular branch or in the set of all versions ever saved to the database, respectively.
You can toggle between the two search modes by clicking the menu button next to the Search button () in a window with Model Manager search functionality — that is, the Model Manager window, the Open window, the Select File window or the Select Model window. You can also click the expand button next to the menu button and select the desired search mode from the menu.
A typical use case for selecting the first mode is when you want to open a model for editing in the COMSOL Desktop. For that, you generally want to be sure that you are starting off from the latest version of the model on its branch. The second mode is useful when you want to find versions in order to perform maintenance operations on them. This includes, for example, computing versions’ total disk space usage or clearing versions’ built, computed, and plotted data.
The Latest Versions for Location () search mode is the default mode in all windows with Model Manager search functionality. It is also the recommended search mode for typical workflows involving the Model Manager — see Databases in the COMSOL Modeling Environment.