The browser search has been improved

Searching in the browser is now more versatile than ever.

Search for documents using wildcards and regular expressions. This makes it easier to find your documents in a large set of results.

Search using wildcards

The user can perform searches by entering multiple words separated by spaces in the search field. The search targets the model name, and the word order doesn’t matter—as long as all provided words are found in the name. An asterisk (*) is automatically added to the beginning and end of each word, allowing for any characters around the search terms. This happens behind the scenes and is not visible to the user, just like before multi-word support was introduced. The entered terms are split into individual keywords at spaces.

The search starts automatically after a short delay or when the user clicks the magnifying glass icon.

For example, if the user types "ppk 33 " into the search field, the system looks for all models whose names contain the strings "ppk", "33", and “”.

Searching with Regular Expressions

You can search for documents using regular expression strings. For example, if you remember that the model name started with three P or K letters followed by two digits, you can use a search like this.

[PK]{3}[0-9]{2}$

Broken down, this search means:

[PK] – looks for the characters P or K
{3} – exactly three of the above characters, so matches like PPK, KPK, KKP, etc.
[0-9] – after the letters, there must be digits in the range 0–9
{2} – and there must be exactly two of those digits
$ – the searched text must end here

This means valid matches include, for example, PPK13 and KKP42, but not PK42 or PPK44-a.

A RegEx search is started by clicking the . button* among the browser action buttons.

Further information about Regular Expressions