Search Overview

  • Updated on Apr 9, 2025
  • Published on May 28, 2024
  • 1 minute(s) read

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

Search Navigation

  1. Click the far-left Search icon to open the Search application on the main screen.

  2. Or, use the drop-down menu in the left-hand content pane to open and use the Search app in that pane

    • While viewing a different app on the main screen

Far-left Navigation Icons

Left-hand Navigation Pane

Left-hand Content Pane

  • Provide visual representations of available applications and plugins

  • Blue highlight

    • App open on main screen indicator

  • Vertical blue line

    • App open in left-hand content pane indicator

  • Displays the full names of available apps and plugins

  • Show Sidebar Content button (top right):

    • Hides the navigation pane and shows the content pane

  • Minimized drop-down menu (top left):

    • Displays the name of the app currently open in this pane

  • Expanded drop-down menu:

    • Allows you to select an available app to open and use within the content pane alongside your current main screen content

  • Click the Expand button (top right) to move an app from the content pane to the main screen

  • Click the Close button to hide the content pane and show the navigation pane

Using Search

  1. The Search application:

    • Provides two search category tabs and a Search textbox

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

  2. Select the (default) Components tab to search for specific component metadata.

    • 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

    • Your keyword query returns results in a columned table format when you expand the Search app window to the main screen

      • You can sort some columns (A to Z; Z to A)

      • If applicable, use the horizontal scroll bar to view columns to the far right

        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.

    • Click the Ellipsis in the Actions column to open an Action Menu for your selected component

  3. Select the Documents tab to search for reference documents relevant to a specific component or system.

    • To open a desired document:

      • Click the Ellipsis in that document’s Actions column

      • Select Open Document on the Action Menu