Rational Programming Patterns

Server Design Search view

This view displays the results of the instance search requested from the Server Design Search or Server Advanced Design Search tab (opened with the Search button in the toolbar or the Search menu). You can load your local workspace from the search results.

The search results are the same, whatever the content of your workspace, since the search is carried out on the server.

The view displays the found instances in a tree structure.

You can modify the display. To do so, click the triangle icon (View menu) of the view toolbar and select one of the following options:
  • Top-level elements to indicate which element type is to constitute the top of the hierarchy in each location tree: folders (default value, represented by the entity types), projects, or packages (irrelevant for the maintenance of a Pacbase application).
  • Sort to specify a new sort criterion.
  • Display to display additional information about each instance line in the tree. If you want to remove some of the selected information from the line, select it again in the menu.
This new setting is then automatically saved and associated with this view, until you change it again.

You can also filter the results by selecting a project in the Context field and by clicking one of the buttons that represent a hierarchic view of the projects in the design build path. Context only is selected by default. It means that only the instances that are found in the selected project are displayed. However, you can select another hierarchy (upper, lower, or whole) to display the instances that are found in the selected project and in the projects that are hierarchically higher or lower, or in all the projects of the hierarchy.

If you right-click an instance in the list, you can perform the following actions:
  • Open the instance in its design editor.
  • Open with its design editor (default editor) or its COBOL editor (available for Macros only).
  • Load the required artifacts. You can select this choice from one of the following line types:
    • One or more design files. A specific loading wizard opens. It displays the selected files and their required artifacts detected by following the subreference links. All these files will be loaded into the local workspace, where they will constitute a consistent set of data.
    • One or more files that contain the source of an instance (Program, Screen, Server, Dialog, or Server Dialog), or a Screen map. The generation links are automatically explored and all the artifacts required for the generation are automatically selected.

    For explanations, see Loading the local workspace.

  • Load the required projects for this design instance. You can then limit the number of the components to be loaded into your local workspace in order to be able to work on the instance.
  • Search for its Server references that are then displayed in the Server References view
  • Go to the next match to highlight the next instance in the list (also available with the Next match toolbar button in the view)
  • Go to the previous match to highlight the previous instance in the list (also available with the Previous match toolbar button in the view)
  • Remove the selected matches to remove all the selected instances from the view (also available with the Remove selected matches toolbar button in the view)
  • Remove all matches to remove all search result from the view (also available with the Remove all matches toolbar button in the view)
You can also perform the following actions from the toolbar only:
  • Run the current search again (Run the current search again). This command runs the current search again, so that the removed search results reappear or changes are reflected.
  • Cancel the current search (Cancel current search).
  • Show the previous searches (Show previous searches). Click this command to see the previous searches and to run one of them again.
    • If you select a previous search, its result is displayed in the view.
    • If you select the History choice, you open a window that 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. You can also configure the number of the previous searches displayed in the history.
    • If you select Clear History, all the previous searches are removed from the history.
  • Expand all (Expand all icon). This command expands every tree item in this view.
  • Collapse all (Collapse all icon) This command collapses every tree item in this view.

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