Use Quick Search to find search terms in the file properties of
a DataFinder instance. Perform a quick search if you only have parts of the information you
are searching for or if you do not know whether the information you are searching for is in
a file, a channel group, or a channel.
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In Data Navigation, select the DataFinder or the
Federation instance you want to search with and click
.
Note
To search in the search areas of a
DataFinder or Federation instance, the instance requires web access. An
authorized user can enable web access in Data
Indexing. To enable web access, select the instance and
click .
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Enter a search term in the search input box. If the toggle is set to
Advanced Search, click the toggle to enable Quick
Search.
| Goal |
Solution |
| Find multiple search terms |
Separate multiple search terms with spaces. |
| Use wildcards to find parts of search terms |
Find parts of search terms with wildcards
(* and ?).
You can only use wildcards at the end of a search term, for
example, exa*.
|
| Find numeric values |
Use Advanced Search. Quick Search always interprets
search terms as text. For example, if you enter the search
term 100, Data Navigation searches
for the text 100 and not for the
numeric value 100.
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| Find search terms containing special characters |
Use Advanced Search. Quick Search replaces the special
characters in a search term with spaces.
|
| Find case-sensitive search terms |
Not possible. Neither Quick Search nor Advanced Search
are case-sensitive.
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Click
Search.
Note
The search results list always contains
the search results from the previous search.
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