3D offers search and filtering options that allow you to quickly find elements when dealing with large quantities of information across different areas. The available search options and filters provide more granular results.

Searching

Search will start providing results as queries are typed on the search bar. Depending on the area of 3D that implements the search functionality, search results can show in two different ways :

• In areas that display information as trees, matching results show their names in bold, if the matching result is the child of an element all the parent elements also show their names in bold, elements that do not match the search criteria show their names in gray.
• In areas that display information as lists, only results that match the search criteria show on the list.

Navigating Results

You can move between search results using the navigation arrows, note that this navigation bar is not available in all the areas that implement the search functionality.

Search Options

To modify the search options, click on the search icon to deploy the options menu, this menu allows you to modify search parameters.
The available search options include case matching, partial or exact matches, more advanced options like wild cards and regular expressions.

Wild cards

Once you enable the Use wild cards options you can use the following to refine your searches:

• Asterisk *: Matches any character zero or more times. For example, "*date" will match "date" and "OrderDate"
• Question mark ?: Matches a single character, for example, "?_order" matches "h_order" and "l_order"

• Square brackets [ ]: Matches a single character within a range [a-z]. For example, [e-h] matches any character between "e" and "h"

These wild cards are affected by the other search options.

Regular Expressions

3D also supports the use of regular expressions for obtaining even more precise results.

Filtering

Besides the search functionality some areas of 3D also offer filtering options relevant to the content displayed. These filters can be applied to search results or all the available elements. To access the filtering options click on the filters icon , note that different areas use different kinds of filters.