Finding Projects Using Attribute Filters
As your collection of assets in the database grows in size, it will become important to be able to search and filter on the assets. On the Home page:
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If not already expanded, click the vertical bar on the left side of the page to expand the Filters menu.
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Under Asset Type, select Project in the list.
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Click the Apply Filters button.
The search result is updated to show the two assets with the project asset type.
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Under Status, select Ongoing in the list. Click Apply Filters.
The search result shows the ongoing combination wrench project.
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Click the Clear Filters button to clear the two applied filters.
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Under Model version, write electrical heating busbar and press Enter.
A filter on the Model version attribute matches on the title of the linked model version. In this case, the search result shows the busbar redesign project. You can also try a wildcard search. Test with, for example, electric* in the Model version field.
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Click the Clear Filters button to clear the Model version filter.
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Under Work group, write research and development and press Enter.
You may be surprised to find that no assets match the filter. The reason is that spaces must be escaped with a backslash when filtering on attributes of keyword value type. Alternatively, you can filter using a wildcard or using phrase matching.
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Replace the filter value with research\ and\ development and press Enter. Also test with an appended wildcard, research*, and as a phrase, “research and development”.
In all three cases, you will match on the combination wrench project.
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Click Clear Filters to clear the Work group filter.
You can also filter by writing a filter expression directly in the Search field. Write, for example, @status:planned to match on the busbar redesign project.
See Searching on Asset Attributes to learn more on how you can search and filter assets on their attributes.
This concludes this introductory tutorial on the asset management system.