Use this window to specify the criteria for the
search and to choose the direction of the search (up or down).
- Click Find Next to find the next occurrence of
an event that matches the criteria you specify.
- Click Stop Search to interrupt a search in progress.
Use the following options to specify criteria and direction.
- Operation
- A command that changes the data in the VOB. For example, to search for
events that created a branch, select the mkbranch operation.
- Object kind (Linux and the UNIX system)
- Object (Windows systems)
- Finds an occurrence of an object type in the event log, for example, a
branch.
- Host
- Finds the host computers that appear in the history of the element.
- Event ID
- Finds the event based on its identification number. Type the numeric identifier
for the event that you want to find. If you know only part of the ID, click Use
Pattern Matching and right-click in the field to enter special
characters.
- Version
- Finds an event record based on a version identifier. Enter a number or
part of the version (for example, main\13) that corresponds
to the event record that you seek.
- Comment
- Finds an event record based on the content of a comment. Type the text
string to search for in the event records. For example, to find all elements
that have the phrase "bug fix" in a comment, type "bug fix".
- Labels
- Finds an event based on a label attached to the element. Type a label
that is part of the event record that you are seeking. If you know only part
of the label, click Use Pattern Matching and right-click
in the box to enter special characters to aid in the search.
- Attributes
- Finds an event based on an annotation attached to the object listed in
the event log. Type a space-separated list of attributes to search for.
- Up
- In Direction, set to search toward the top. Starts
the search with the currently selected event record. If no event record is
selected, the search starts with the event record at the bottom of the display.
The search ends with the event record at the top of the event log.
- Down
- In Direction, set to search toward the bottom.
Starts the search with the currently selected event record. If no event record
is selected, the search starts with the event record at the top of the display.
The search ends with the event record at the bottom of the event log.
- Match Case
- Use this option to narrow the search further. By default, the search treats
lowercase and uppercase equally. If you set this option, the search finds
only text that matches the case of the text string that you specify.
- Use Pattern Matching
- Use this option to narrow the search further. If you set this option,
you can insert special characters in a text string that you specify to form
a pattern-matching string.
On Linux and the UNIX system,
click the desired character position in the text box and just type them in.
On
Windows systems, click the desired character position in the text box, and
either right-click and select a special character to insert or just type them
in.
- ? for any character
- * for zero or more characters
- [] for character in range
- \ to escape a special character