Global Search

The global search searches through all configuration items and executions in properties and texts.

The search is case-insensitive and offers various options via syntax to limit the search results. This is described below.

Object types

To restrict the search to specific configuration items, it is possible to select these object types. This restricts the results list and helps to obtain the desired hits.

Query syntax

  • + signifies AND operation

  • | signifies OR operation

  • - negates a single token

  • " wraps a number of tokens to signify a phrase for searching

  • * at the end of a term signifies a prefix query

  • ( and ) signify precedence

  • ~N after a word signifies edit distance (fuzziness)

  • ~N after a phrase signifies slop amount

Escape special characters

Special characters can be escaped with a backslash. The search for objects which are e.g. the character asterisk would then look like this \* without a backslash, the search is a wildcard search and returns all objects.

Examples

The syntax is described with the following examples.

  • Copy employees

  • Analyse employee tables

  • Copy all employee data

Search pattern Matched entries Description

Employee

  • Analyse employee tables

  • Copy all employee data

Exact match

"copy employees"

  • Copy employees

Exact match, return results with both words in this order.

Employee*

  • Copy employees

  • Analyse employee tables

  • Copy all employee data

Wildcard search

copy + employees

  • Copy employees

  • Analyse employee tables

  • Copy all employee data

And operation search, return results with both words in any order. -

Copy employees

Copy | employees

  • Copy employees

  • Copy all employee data

Or operation search, return results with one of the both words.

employee + -(all)

  • Analyse employee tables

And operation search with negation, return results with employees but without the word all.

employee* + -(al*)

  • Copy employees

  • Analyse employee tables

And operation search with negation and wildcards, return results with employees but without the word all.

"copy employee"~5

  • Copy all employee data

slop, return results with copy and employee, but there may be several words between them.

employye~1

  • Analyse employee tables

  • Copy all employee data

fuzziness, return results with employee and ignore the one tipping error.