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The current view search option allows you to search an item in the Current view and then highlight them in the view. It can be accessed by clicking the Search icon in the current view.
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A search dialog will then be displayed, enabling you to enter a search string - any items that match the search string :
When clicked, the search panel will be displayed, listing all items currently displayed in the view:
Entering a search string will automatically list items that match and are present in the current view will be listed:
Selecting one or multiple items - each - for example, the string "book" has been entered:
In versions ≥ 2.14, Objects can be searched either by entering the Object name or Object full name:
Any items you want to highlight in the view can be selected individually, or you can select multiple items, or all items:
Each selected item will be highlighted in the view:
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The "all application" Search option allows you to search across the entire Application:
- for specific objects using search strings , object types, tags and properties (Object search)
- text added to the Document-It feature (Document search)
- via the cypher query language (Cyper search) - users with the ADMIN role only
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- ensure you are working in the OBJECTS tab
- enter the object name and/or filter on:
- a specific object type
- a specific tag or tags - see User Guide - GUIWorking with tags for more information about Tags)
- a specific object property
| Search only for objects | Enter the string to search for - i.e. the string to match specific object names. You can choose more advanced search options if required:
| Filters | Filter on object types AND tags or switch to object types OR tags.
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| Filter by | You can filter the search results to narrow down the number of items that will be returned. Use the Filter By slider to do so:
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Search results are displayed in the "List of objects" window. By default the first 100 matching items are displayed - scrolling down through the results will show additional matching items:
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Select a single object or multiple objects to display them in the view (or tick the List of objects option to add all objects to the view). Click Visualize to view the view:
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Links between any objects selected for visualization will also be shown:
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| 1 - Download | This option will download to .CSV file all the items in the list which have a tick in the checkbox. Note that this button is only visible if the Objects Export option is enabled in Configuring display preferences. | ||
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| 2 - Visualize | This option will display in the view all the items in the list which have a tick in the checkbox. | ||
| 3 - List of objects | This option will auto select (i.e. put a tick in the checkbox) up to 100 items at any one time - if there are less than 100 matching items, then all of the items will be selected.
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| 4 - Number | The number in the blue circle indicates the number of items that have been selected. | ||
| 5 - Showing X out of X | Indicates the number of matching items that are displayed. | ||
| 6 - Check boxes | Use the check box to select an item and then use the Download or Visualize options. |
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When using the search option via the node/object right click contextual menu whilst in Level 5, the search will be performed as a "selective expand" on the originally selected objects - i.e. results are limited to the children/children,callers,callees/children&callers/children&callees. Therefore, the search box is presented in a slightly different way:
Results are displayed and handled in the same way as using the Access via Search view menu or Search icon on task bar.
Document search
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- ensure you are working in the DOCUMENT tab
- Choose the search scope:
- View document (a document added to a view)
- Object document (a document added to a specific object or group of objects)
- enter the search string and filter on a specific tag or tags - see User Guide - GUI for Working with tags for more information about Tags)
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Results are displayed and handled in the same way as using the Access via Search view menu or Search icon on task bar.
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Cypher search is a feature that allows you to directly query the Neo4j database using "cypher query" - a specific functional language. You can use the "Cypher" tab in the Search view to run your queries:
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The Cypher search option is only enabled for users with the default SUPER ADMIN and ADMIN roles. If you would like to enable it for other users, either modify an existing role to enable the Cypher Search or create a new role specifically for that - see Admin Center - Roles panel:
You need to enable at a minimum the READ and CREATE permissions to perform a query. The Cypher language is powerful and enabling the UPDATE and DELETE permissions will allow users to perform cypher queries which can update or delete existing application data. |
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Legacy dedicated Document-It document search
When more than six Document-It documents have been added to a view, it is possible to perform a search of all the documents within the view. Use the following icon to access the search facility:
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