Search Overview

Beast Core 6 has a powerful Search plugin with functionality that is logical and easy to use.

Open the Search Plugin

1. Click the far-left magnifying glass icon to open the Search plugin on the main screen.

   • Or select Search in the expandable left-hand content pane’s drop-down menu to open Search in that pane

     

   

2. Refer to these articles for additional information:

   • Content Pane

   • Navigation Pane: Application Menu

Use Search Features

1. The Search plugin:

   • Provides two search category tabs and a Search textbox

     

   • Conducts a global search for related program data when you enter a keyword

2. You can sort some search results table columns:

   • Alphabetically (A-Z; Z-A)

   • Numerically (low to high; high to low)

     

3. If applicable, use the horizontal scroll bar to access items outside of the viewing window.

   NOTE

   Search results that exceed the size of the search window display via an infinite scroll function.

   Additional content loads automatically when the vertical scroll bar (or your mouse wheel) reaches the bottom of the window.

4. Use the search results Filter feature to reduce the number of unique search results (table rows)

   • Left click the button in the upper right corner of the search results table to access the filter submenus

     • See the Filter Search Results article for additional information

5. Use the Configure Table menu to reduce the number of columns (metadata topics) that display on a search results table

   • Left click the eye icon in the upper right corner of the search results table to open the Configure Table menu

     • See the Configure a Search Results Table article for additional information

Search for Components

1. Select the (default) Components tab to search for specific component metadata by keyword.

   • Returned search results are in a columned format when you conduct a search on the main screen

     

   • Your keyword query returns abbreviated results when you conduct a search in the left-hand content pane

     • To expand this pane, hover over the right edge of the content pane and click and drag the blue vertical line

       

2. Left click the Ellipsis in the Actions column to open an Action Menu for your selected component.

   

   • See these articles for additional information:

     • Search for Components

     • Component Search Results - Display Differences

Search for Documents

1. Select the Documents tab to search (by keyword) for reference documents relevant to a specific component or system.

2. To open a desired document:

   • Click the Ellipsis in that document’s Actions column

   • Select Open Document on the Document Action Menu

     

3. See the Search for Documents article for additional information.