Search Syntax Completion
You can press Ctrl+Space when the cursor is placed in the search field in the Open, Select File, Select Model, and Model Manager windows to get completion assistance for the Model Manager search syntax. The opened completion menu contains one or more of the following submenus:
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Field expressions. The names of item and content filters for use in field expressions.
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Node and setting expressions. The names of nodes and settings for use in nested content filters.
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Field values. Available field values to filter on for a specific field expression.
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Symbols. The symbols used for range expressions, subexpressions, or boolean expressions.
The available submenus and their options depend on the text preceding the cursor location so that a valid syntax expression can still be formulated upon completion. While the menu is still open, you can continue to type in the search field to further narrow down the suggested completions. Once you select something in the menu, the current text in the search field will be adjusted accordingly.
While Model Manager will help you with completing the beginning of a node or setting expression, including appending the opening curly brace symbol ({), you must also remember to end the expression with a closing curly brace symbol (}).
If some parts of the text preceding the cursor location contain syntax errors, Model Manager will still attempt to complete a portion of the text “closest” to the cursor into a valid expression.
Many completion options support matching on both the actual value to be completed and the option’s accompanying descriptive text while continuing to type with the menu open. This includes, for example, the Field expressions submenu for which you can match on either the field identifier or one of the words in the field description.
You can write spaceDim and press Ctrl+Space, for example, to complete the expression used to filter on all models with components having a specific space dimension:
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Select the Field expressions > @node{@spaceDimension: option from the opened menu.
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Write an integer space dimension and a closing curly brace, say @node{@spaceDimension:2}.
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Press Enter to find all models with the sought-after space dimension.
Or, you can write @tag: and press Ctrl+Space to find models and data files by their tag assignments. Continue to type in the search field to narrow down to a specific tag title under Field values in the opened menu.
The @tag:<field-value> filter matches on the title of assigned tags as a Text Field filter. Use @tagKey:<field-value> if you have created multiple tags in the database having the same title and you only want results for one of them.
Completion of field values is only supported by a subset of all item and content filters. This includes filters involving tag assignments or users, file type extension filters, Selection Field filters of built-in type, Boolean Field filters, and date shorthands of Date Field filters.