Opening Models from Databases
From the Open window, you can find and open versions of models from one of your configured databases (see Adding Databases). Choose the database that you want to open a model from in the list of options on the left. Choose Add Database () if you want to add a new database.
The Open window is shown with a list of models saved in the database. Select a model and click the Open button () to open the model in the COMSOL Desktop. If a model is also an application, you can click Run () to launch and run the application directly.
You can also right-click a model to open it or, if the model is also an application, run it. Select Set Tags () to modify the tag assignments of a model — see also Assigning Tags to Items.
The Open Window in the COMSOL Multiphysics Reference Manual.
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Opening Models
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Running Applications
Finding models to Open
You find models to open by writing search expressions in the search field and clicking the Search button () or pressing Enter. You can write plain search words and any number of filter expressions using The Model Manager Search Syntax. Plain search words will match on the title, description, assigned tags, and filename of a model.
You can also apply separate Item and Content Filters via The Filter Dialog Box. Select a filter from the Add Filter menu button () in the toolbar to open the dialog box. Applied filters are shown below the search field — see Applied Filter Pills.
You search for the latest versions of models on a specific branch by default. To search among all versions ever saved in the database, click the expand button next to Latest Versions for Location menu button () and select All Versions in Database (). See Searching Versions for more details on these two search modes. To redo a previous search, select one of the entries in the Search History menu list () — see also Search History.
Each entry in the result list contains the title of the model in that version, the time when the version was saved, the name of the user that saved the version, and — depending on the search mode — either the tags assigned to the model or the repository and branch the model version was saved in. The search result is sorted on title, with a maximum of 100 models that match the search initially included in the result list. Click the Show More button () to append the next 100 matches to the list. You can set another value for this default page size in the Result Page Size field on the Model Manager page in the Preferences dialog box.
You can change the sort field and sort order of the search result from the toolbar. Click the expand button next to the sort field button to select another sort field than the default Title () sort field — see also Sorting Search Results. The selected sort field and sort order for the Open window is remembered between program sessions.
Searching and Filtering
The Open Window Toolbar
The toolbar above the search field contains the following toolbar buttons:
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Click the Refresh button () to refresh the search result while keeping the search expression and applied filters unchanged.
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Click the Show More button () to append more matching models to the search result.
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Click the Search History menu button () to select a previous search that you want to redo.
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Click the Reset button () to clear the current search expression and applied filters.
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Click the Add Filter menu button () to apply a filter.
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Click the sort field button to toggle the sort order of the search result between ascending and descending order. Click the expand button to select another sort field.
Select Location in Database
You can change which subset of latest model versions to search for by selecting another commit location — see also Searching Versions and Locations. Click the link button above the search field to open The Select Location Dialog Box to select which location to search. The link button is hidden if there is only one location available in the database, which is the default for a new database, or when All Versions in Database () is selected.