Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.6

The Design search view

This view displays the results of the instance search requested from the Design Search wizard (which you open with the search button in the toolbar or the Search menu). The search bore on one or more open locations of the Design explorer view.

The title of the Design Search view shows the character string entered in the search request, and the number of instances which match the search criteria.

The view lists the instances found. They are grouped by entities, in the same way as in the Design explorer view.

You can modify their display. To do so, click the white upside-down triangle icon of the view toolbar and select:
  • Top Level Elements to indicate which element type will constitute the top of the hierarchy in the tree: folders (default. These are represented by the entity types), packages or projects.
  • Sort to specify a new sort criterion: by name, package or project.
  • Display to display additional information on each instance line in the tree: package, project and/or label. You can combine the three choices. If you want to remove one of the selected information from the line, just select it again in the menu.
This new setting will then automatically be saved and associated with the Design Search' view, until you change it again.
If you right-click on an instance in the list, you can:
  • Open its editor.
  • Search for its super or sub references, which will then be displayed in the References view.
  • Go to the next match, i.e. highlight the next instance in the list (also available via the next match button in the view toolbar),
  • Go to the previous match, i.e. highlight the previous instance in the list (also available via the previous match button in the view toolbar),
  • Remove the selected matches, i.e. remove all the selected instances from the Design Search view (also available via the Remove selected matches button in the view toolbar),
  • Remove all matches, i.e. remove all search result from the Design Search view (also available via the Remove all matches button in the view toolbar),
You can also perform the following actions from the toolbar only:
  • Run the current search again (Run the current search again button). This command reruns the current search again, so that removed search results reappear or changes are reflected.
  • Cancel the current search (Cancel current search button).
  • Show the previous searches (Show previous searches button). This command enables you to see the previous searches and to run one of them again.
    • If you select a previous search, its result will be displayed in the view.
    • If you select the History choice, you open a window which shows the 10 previous searches (by default). In this window, you can select a previous search to view its results or remove it from the history, or configure the number the previous searches displayed in the history.
    • If you select Clear History, all the previous searches will be removed from the history.
  • Expand all (Expand all icon). This command expands every tree item in the Design Search view.
  • Collapse all (Collapse all icon) This command collapses every tree item in the Design Search view.

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