Limiting search results

You can remove extraneous lines when displaying search results to keep the structure tree compact and manageable. For example, you perform a search that finds a single line that is 10 levels deep in the structure. If you fully expand the branch from the root down to the line of interest, you may also display hundreds of other lines (all of its ancestors and the siblings of itself and its ancestors). To avoid this, you can prune the branch of the tree and not display any sibling lines (and potentially none of its ancestors). When you select lines in the search results pane to display, the following occurs: If the Show unconfigured variants option is turned off, Teamcenter applies the current variant rules to the selected structure lines. If any lines become unconfigured as a result of the variant rules in effect, Teamcenter displays a Lines are unconfigured due to Variant rules message. The remaining lines are displayed in the tree and pruned as described previously. If the viewer is active, the lines are displayed in the viewer. This assumes that the revision rules associated with the search results match the revision rules in effect in the structure. If not, Teamcenter evaluates each line in the search result to see if it is valid in the context of the currently configured end item. If it is valid, the line is displayed as before. Otherwise, it is displayed in a separate section of the tree called Unconfigured Objects. If you do not have read access to an item that satisfies the search criteria, the corresponding line is not listed in the search results table. If this occurs, the count of lines in the search results is reduced to exclude any lines to which you do not have read access.