Finding Comments

As well as finding items by property, you can also search the comments attached to items, clash results and selection sets using the Find Comments control bar. For more information on what comments are and how to attach them to items, see . Alternatively, go to Edit, Find Comments

As usual in JetStream, the Find Comments control bar is a dockable bar accessed through the View, Control Bars menu, from the Review, Comments, Find Comments menu or from the Workspace control bar by pressing the Find Comments button

The Find Comments control bar looks like this:

Finding comments

1. If it's not already open, open the Find Comments control bar as outlined above.

2. Type in the text that you want to search for in the Text box.

   Note

   You should use the "*" wildcard (without the quotes) to match an arbitrary series of letters either before or after the text you enter here. For example, if you want to find all comments containing the word "redline", you should enter "*redline*" in the text box, otherwise you will only find comments that contain only the "redline" word, which probably won't be many!

3. If you want to restrict your search to comments made by a single author, then type in the name of that author in the Author text box.

4. If you know the ID of the comment you want to find, enter this in the ID text box.

5. If you want to restrict your search to comments of a particular status, select the required status from the Status drop-down menu.

6. Check the Match Case check box if you want the search to respect lower and upper case characters in the search.

7. You can refine the search further by clicking on the Date Modified tab to select a date range within which the comment must have been made.

8. Clicking on the Source tab and check the relevant check boxes for Clash Detective TimeLiner Selection Sets Viewpoints or Redline Tags to restrict the search by the source that the comment is attached to. The Clash Detective and TimeLiner options are only available if you have the relevant plugin licenses.

   Note

   If the Text Author ID and Status fields are left empty, the search will return all comments within the Date Modified and Source restrictions.

9. Click Find to search for the comments.

10. If any comments are found, they will be listed in the box at the bottom of the control. Selecting a comment will also select the source of the comment. For example, selecting a comment which originated from a saved viewpoint will select that viewpoint.

If new comments are added, the results list will be cleared.