Use the find function to locate a text or numeric value
in the selected table view, message log, or event console view.
About this task
Take these steps to use the Find tool for quickly locating
values.
Procedure
- Open the workspace that contains the view you want to search.
- Click Find in
the table view toolbar. If the tool is hidden, click Show toolbar in the view's title bar. The
Find window opens with the first two column headings (attributes)
filled in and fields for entering up to five values.
- Click an arrow and select the
column to search within. To clear a column name, select
the first entry (which is empty) from the list.
- Click inside the corresponding Value field
and enter the value to find.
- The default function is Value of expression (Compare Date and Time for time attributes);
the default operator is . If you need to change the function or operator,
click the or button and select from the list.
- You can enter a partial value
to find all occurrences of the text or number that begin with those
characters. For example, 500 will find 500 and 5000; and West will
find West, West006, and Western. You can also use an * asterisk wildcard
for any number of characters beginning at that position; use a ? question
mark wildcard for a single character at that position. You can also
use wildcards with the Scan
for string within a string and Return a subset of the string functions.
See the formula function topics for a description of attribute types
and other formula functions, including examples. When using the ? question mark wildcard
with the Value of expression function, append
the text with an * asterisk. For example, enter Sa?e* to find Safe
and Sale.
- Most special characters are
processed correctly. If you attempt to find text that includes a special
character and it is not found, but you know it exists in your environment,
precede it with the \ backslash escape character.
These
are some of the special characters that require the \ escape
character prefix: # pound sign; $ dollar sign; ^ circumflex; \ backslash;
( open and ) close parentheses; + plus sign; [ open square bracket;
{ open and } close curly braces. For example, \#my_situation to
find #my_situation in the Message Log view.
These special characters do not need the
escape character: ! exclamation point; @ at sign; % percentage; &
ampersand; = equal sign; < open and > close pointed bracket; _
underscore; - hyphen; ] close square bracket; / slash; : colon; and
; semicolon.
- Select or clear any of the check boxes and click Find.
- Case
Sensitive to find only spellings that match the letter
casing as typed. When the check box is disabled, all variations of
the letter casing can be found.
- Backwards to
search from the cursor point backwards. When the check box is disabled,
the default, the search will be from this point forward.
- Wrap
Search, instead of stopping the search when the end of
the document is reached, continues to search from the beginning and
stops when it reaches the point where the search began. Clear the
check box if you want the search to stop at the end of the document
(or the beginning of the document if the search is backwards).
- Click Find Again to search for the
next instance or enter another search term.
What to do next
You can click
Close when you are done
or leave the Find window open for this view while the workspace is
open.