Search

To find information inside a schema easily, QElectroTech provides a searching feature. This feature allows finding automatically folios, elements, conductors and text fields (plain text) which contains a string at one of the properties.

To find an object which contains a string:

1. Go to search menu.

Figure: QElectroTech search menu

2. Write the string which should be search over the project in the text box from the menu.

3. Press Enter and QElectroTech will zoom and display the first object from the list of matches at the workspace.

4. Press or button to zoom the next or previous object from the list of matches.

5. Press button to refresh the search.

Note

If the search menu is not displayed, it can be displayed from Edit > Search / Replace menu item or using Ctrl + f shortcut keyboard.

QElectroTech provides also some advanced properties for searching. Before searching, a filter can be defined to reduce the list of matches according the following criteria:

• Text fields (Plain text).

• Whole words (Text fields (Plain text), Conductor properties, Element properties, Folio properties)

To create an advanced search:

1. Go to search menu.

2. Press button to display the filter tree.

Figure: QElectroTech advanced search menu

3. Select the type of text to be searched (Plain text or Whole words) at the combobox from the right side of the text box.

4. Click / unclick the button which selects Case sensitive.

5. From here, follow the steps from the standard search.