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.
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.
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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In the Title field under Model versions > Model version, write electrical heating busbar.
The Title field of 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 Title field.
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Click the Clear Filters button to clear the Model versions > Model version filter.
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Under Work group, write research and development.
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. 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 and press Enter 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.