Rational Programming Patterns

Design search view

This view displays the results of the instance search requested from the Design Search tab (which you open with the Search button in the toolbar or the Search menu). The search bore on one or more open locations of the Design Explorer view.

The title of the Design Search view shows the character string entered in the search request, and the number of instances which match the search criteria.

The view displays the instances found 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 radio 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 found in the selected project are displayed. However you can select another hierarchy (upper, lower, or whole) to display the instances 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) or three other editors (text editor, system editor, in-place editor)
  • Search for its references, which are then displayed in the References view
  • Go to the next match, to highlight the next instance in the list (also available with Next match in the view toolbar)
  • Go to the previous match, to highlight the previous instance in the list (also available with previous match in the view toolbar)
  • Remove the selected matches, to remove all the selected instances from the Design Search view (also available with Remove selected matches in the view toolbar)
  • Remove all matches; that is, remove all search result from the Design Search view (also available with Remove all matches in the view toolbar)
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 removed search results reappear or changes are reflected.
  • Cancel the current search (Cancel current search)
  • Show the previous searches (Show previous searches). This command displays the previous searches. You can 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 which 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 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). This command expands every tree item in this view.
  • Collapse all (Collapse all) This command collapses every tree item in this view.

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