Collecting Models and Files for Maintenance

The window may be used to perform maintenance operations on a few versions belonging to the same model or file. Select the targeted versions, right-click, and then select the maintenance operation you have in mind from the context menu.

Maintenance operations that target a more complex collection of versions typically involves the following steps:

Finding the versions you want to target by searching and filtering in the window.

Adding versions from the search result in the window to the window.

Selecting a maintenance operation that targets either a selection of versions or all versions in the window from the toolbar.

Steps one and two may be repeated before proceeding to step three.

The sets of versions that you can add to the window are similar to the ones available when Estimating Disk Space Usage:

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A selection of versions in the window.

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All versions belonging to the same items as a selection of versions in the window.

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All versions matching the search in the window, independent of if all versions are currently shown in the table or if there are more results to retrieve via (

With (

) selected in the window, click (

) in the section on the toolbar and select (

) — all versions belonging to the same items, or the items’ drafts, of the current selection are added to the window.

With (

) selected in the window, select (

) in the menu (

) to add the currently selected versions to the window. Select (

) in the menu (

) to add the current search term and applied search filters as an “implicit selection rule for versions” to the window.

The option (

) is by far the most powerful one. It enables you, for example, to target:

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All draft versions with a saved date older than some fixed time by applying a Item Save Type filter and a Saved filter.

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All versions with built, computed, and plotted data with a file size larger than some value by applying a Computed Data filer.

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All versions saved by yourself by applying a Saved By filter.


	At most one search result can be included in the Maintenance window if the search expression uses full text search words. Consider replacing the full text search words with Title, Description, and Tag filters if you want to add multiple search results.


	The Search Result option () enables you to target versions in the Maintenance window without requiring you to first having to retrieve them all as separate table rows in the Model Manager window. This is useful, for example, when the versions number in the thousands.