Find elements within a structure

Perform keyword searches within an open structure or a selected subassembly to quickly locate specific elements, including those based on content, and narrow down your search results.

To narrow your search results to a specific branch in the structure, you can perform a keyword search within the selected subassembly from the Find panel.

Procedure

1. Open a structure from the search results.
2. Click Find .
3. In the Find panel, enter the search parameters, and click Search . If file content indexing is deployed in your Teamcenter configuration, you can specify dataset filenames as the search parameter. You can also specify the text within a file as the search parameter. For example, consider that the dataset EngineSpecification.pdf contains the text RPM. If you enter RPM as the search parameter, the search result displays elements that have the dataset EngineSpecification.pdf as an attachment. The search result also displays elements that have datasets with the text RPM in their content. Additionally, you can specify the name of a .prt file as the search parameter. When a structure is indexed using Smart Discovery and the administrator has enabled indexing for an element's occurrence properties, you can search for elements using those properties. For example, if the Assembly Instructions occurrence property is marked for Smart Discovery Indexing and the structure is already indexed using Smart Discovery, you can search for elements based on their Assembly Instructions occurrence property.
4. (Optional) To narrow the results: Select the subassembly to which you want to limit your search. Select the Find within check box, enter the search parameters, and click Search.
5. Select an element from the search results to view it in the structure.If you have Partitions for Structure deployed in your Teamcenter configuration and if you select an element from the search results on the Find panel, the element is highlighted in the work area within the partition that contains it. Note Clicking Select All does not select the corresponding elements in the structure.

Searching structured content if you do not have access to objects

If you find an element in a structure that you do not have read access to, Teamcenter does not show that occurrence and excludes it from the find-in-context results. If the occurrence exists in an assembly to which you do have access, Teamcenter shows an Access Denied indicator in its place.

Note

Access to occurrences is set by your system administrator by using Access Manager. Access controls protect intellectual property and prevent general access to data. To view restricted content that you do not have access to, you can request the owner of the assembly to use project-level security to allow collaboration.

If you do not have access to a revision configured by the revision rule, Teamcenter searches for the lastest revision you have access to, and configures the access accordingly.

Automatic searching for the lastest accessible revision is not supported in indexed structures. However, it is supported if Smart Discovery Indexing is used.