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 at least once in one of 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 the latest versions in a branch or when searching all versions in the database — see Searching Versions. 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 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 Snapshots and Commits. Model Manager will, however, automatically append an implicit wildcard to each search word in those cases.