topic Re: Search by appearance? in Vault Forum

Search by appearance?

SharkDesign — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 06:54:48 GMT

Any idea how to search by appearance?

Or is this not possible because it can be overridden at so many different levels?

Re: Search by appearance?

CGBenner — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:01:35 GMT

@SharkDesign

Hi James. I don't think this is possible, in fact I don't even see Appearance as a searchable property. It may be for the reason you mentioned or even because a single part can contain multiple appearances. You CAN search by Material, if that helps at all. Good luck!

Re: Search by appearance?

SharkDesign — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:50:22 GMT

Yeah, I found the material attribute, but the user is looking for a specific file and probably half of our entire vault is mild steel.

Re: Search by appearance?

CGBenner — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 12:24:47 GMT

@SharkDesign

Is there no other unique criteria the user can search on? Date Created, Author etc?

Re: Search by appearance?

SharkDesign — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 12:45:09 GMT

Not enough to narrow it down.

Anyway, he's managed to find it manually so panic over!