Good Morning,
I've come to a break in a path with a lot of options, but I'm not sure which would be considered a best practise approach, and if some are even possible.
I'm working on creating search options for a user group, and would like to create a search card for them that allows them to find only .sldprt, .sldasm & .PDF files within specific workflow states, regardless of location.
This comes down to 2 challenges:
- Searching for multiple specific filetypes - I know I'm able to do one filetype or all quite easily using default values (*.pdf/etc)
- Searching for multiple specific Workflow states - The same applies, one or all.
I should mention that in both cases, if I have to make the searchable filetypes/States a static item, that's ok.
If anyone has a way to get around either of those challenges, I'd love to hear what you've done. If this is impossible and there's a SR out for it, I'd be glad to back it!
First one is easy, just type "*.sldprt *.sldasm *.pdf" without the quotes in the name field.
For the second part you can only search in one workflow at a time under the workflow tab in complete search. However, if you think searching multiple workflows at once is something your organization is going to do often, I would guess you can create a workflow variable and set it in each transition. Then search that workflow variable using the variables tab with or statements. If these searches are consistent, i.e. always/or often searching for files in workflow "X" "Y" & "Z" you can save it as a favorite so that you're not reentering the search every time.