Find Specification

Searching in specification texts.

Context

You can use the Find dialog to search for text using specifications. You can limit the search to certain text definitions.

How to proceed

Select the Start>Browse>Find>Find Specification (Ctrl+F3) command.

The Find dialog appears and the Find Specification tab is activated.
Enter the pattern you want to search for in the Contained Text field. This can be a string or a regular expression.
Activate the Match case check box if you want to match case.
Activate the Match whole word check box if you should only search for whole words.

It is not a good idea to use wildcards in the search.
If you want to search for a regular expression, activate the Evaluate Regular Expression check box.

If this option is set, Contained Text is interpreted as a regular expression.

If this option is not set then Contained Text itself is searched for.
Select the type of the element to find from the Find Element Type drop-down list. The (all) entry searches without type constraint.
Deactivate the Itemize only instantiated Types check box if you do not want to constrain the drop-down list of element types to the element types used in the model. The search will not return any hits for these element types but it may be useful if you want to save the search without it being linked to the current model..
Select the specification type you want to search through from the Find in Text Definition drop-down list. The (all) entry searches through all specification types.
If you want to constrain the search to selected elements and their successors, e.g. a package, then activate the Only within the selected elements check box in the Search options group.

If you do not do this, then the whole model is searched through.
If you want the search hits to replace the previous content in the result region, then activate the Overwrite result region check box in the Search options group.

If you do not do this, then the results are added to the previous results.
Click on Find.

The dialog box remains open to continue your search or add new entries. You can continue to work normally in the model while the search is being carried out.