Find components by property

Procedure Load the structure you want to search. You can optionally expand the structure now or wait until the results appear. (If you search a collapsed structure, Teamcenter partially expands the result lines, but you can manually expand them to see the full structure.) Click Find component(s) in display at the lower left of the Structure Manager window. Teamcenter displays the Find in Display dialog box. As the name suggests, the Find in Display functionality finds within what is displayed on the screen in Rich Client. Example Consider that you are working on packed lines. For an individual packed line, a specific value (for a property) is associated with it. In the All Notes field, this information is displayed as Property Name: Value. However, when you pack the lines, only the value Packed Notes is displayed in the All Notes field. Now, if you search for the value of the packed master line from the packed notes list, you cannot find it because it is displayed as Packed Notes. However, if you search for the second, third, or later values from the packed notes list, you can find those values. This is because, for the packed master line, the display value is not the value of the line itself, but it is Packed Notes. Instead, if you search for the value Packed Notes, you can find it, because this is the display value. A packed master line represents a collection of individual lines and the packed master line has a special display value. Individual lines may have different display values. Also, if the individual lines have different note types, the note value is not displayed in the All Notes field. Only the note types are displayed as Property Name 1, Property Name 2, ... All Notes is a summary of all individual notes and its packed master line has a special display value. Thus, it is recommended to first unpack all the lines and then perform a search. The search starts at the top-level item in the structure, not at the currently selected line. You do not select an assembly in which to look for the component. If you want to restrict the search to a particular assembly, open the subassembly in a new Structure Manager window by selecting it and choosing File→Open. Alternatively, you can collapse all other assemblies except the one you want to search. Double-click the Property Name text box to select a property from the list of available columns. Double-click the = box to select a different operator. You can use the following relational operators to define string property searches. Relational operator Definition = or = = Equal to > Greater than < Less than >= Greater than or equal to <= Less than or equal to != Not equal to – Range | OR “” Exact string & AND Click the Searching Value text box and type the value you want to search for. Partial matches are selected for string properties. Wildcards are not supported, and the search is not case sensitive. Add further clauses to the search condition by clicking . You can also double-click AND to change it to OR. If necessary, reorder clauses by clicking and . You can also use the following shortcut keys to perform an action. These shortcut keys Perform the following action Ctrl + N Add a new condition. Ctrl + R Remove the selected conditions. Ctrl + ↑ Move up the selected condition. Ctrl + ↓ Move down the selected condition. Ctrl + C Clear the all condition. Ctrl + → Select the next result line. Ctrl + ← Select the previous result line. Ctrl + A Select all result lines. Enter Start the search. Tab Insert a new condition row. When the search condition definition is complete, click Find . Teamcenter highlights the first line it finds that matches the search condition, and the Find dialog box shows a count of the total number of matching lines found. Click Find next one and Find previous one to step through the matching lines one at a time. Alternatively, you can click Load All to select all matching lines at once.