Overview
Users can perform advanced searches directly from the Home page (My Processes or Process Models) or the Current Diagram view to find processes shared with them. The search will include not only process names, but also the names of process elements and other properties.
Considerations
•Separate the words with spaces for multiple-word searches.
•Only alphanumeric characters are supported.
•The results displayed start with or match the value entered.
•Results do not distinguish between upper and lower case letters.
Performing an Advanced Search
Either from the Home or current diagram view, enter a value in the search box.
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To open the search box from the current diagram view, click |
. The search box appears in the right panel. Search performed from here will be bordered to the current process.
Once you type the value of the search, the results of the search appears. The search retrieves the process with elements which start with or match the value entered, regardless of the case.
In every result, the word which starts with or matches the value entered is highlighted in orange.
When expanding a result, you can see the name of the process element retrieved in the search and a small part of the value where the result matched.
Click the name of the process or the name of element to navigate to its diagram page.
Considerations when using special searching characters
•We define a term as one or more words typed before a character i,e: purch*, purchase req*
•you can combine more than a character on the search control i,e: purchase and request - hiring, except for the double quotes characters.
•If you type no characters on more than one word searches, the system assumes you typed the character and.
Minimize your search results using the following characters on the values you type on the search control:
Character |
Description |
Example |
|---|---|---|
Double quotes: "" |
Brings the exact values you type on the search control. |
"purchase": brings all diagrams, shapes, process names, process elements and other properties containing the exact word purchase. |
Word and, sign and:& |
Use it for two or more terms searches: On the search results, it brings all results including both words. If any of the words is not found, no results are returned. |
purchase and request: brings all diagrams, shapes, process names, process elements and other properties containing both terms: purchase request If any of the words is not found, no results are returned. |
Minus sign : - |
Use it for two or more terms searches: On the search results, it retrieves all results that includes the first word and excludes the second word. |
purchase - request: brings all diagrams, shapes, process names, process elements and other properties which contains the first term purchase and excludes the second term request. Suppose that there existed two diagrams named purchase request and purchase order. If you type purchae - request, the system brings all the terms which contain purchase and exclude request, then the diagram purchase order appears on the search results. |
Word or, vertical bar: | |
Use it for two or more terms searches: On the search results, it brings values containing either each or both terms |
Purchase or request: brings all diagrams, shapes, process names, process elements and other properties which contains either the term purchase, the term request or both of them. |
Asterisk: * |
Brings all searches containing all the values before the asterisk. It auto-completes the words that may match the search. |
Purc*: brings all diagrams, shapes, process names, process elements and other properties which contains the purc values. It also auto-completes the search regarding the typed term. I.E Purc* = Purchase |