Finding all designs contain a specific inserted design

[greglwood]

Not sure how to title this. I am looking for a way to find all designs that have had another specific design inserted into it.

For example I have  Design A and I have Used it in Designs G, K and L. But I can't remember the name of L so I would like to say show me  every design that A is in. I could then look at G,K and L to see which of those was the design I could not remember the name of. 

For that matter I have  Design G  open and see that A was inserted, but how can I find out what Folder A is in? I looked in properties and can not find it. I can open it and edit it but if I want to insert it into another design, and I can't remember which folder it is in, how can I find it. 

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

In the browser if you expand the details there is a section Used In. 

IF you select View Details on Web it will open your browser, from there you can mouse over the designs using the design and selec overview.

Clicking Overview will take you to that design and give you the project, folder etc.

[HughesTooling]

There is one thing to note with what I said above. This only works if the design is still used in the latest versions of the designs using Design A in your example. So lets say in your design K you inserted A at version 1 but then deleted it from version 5, there is no way now to see A was used in K versions 1 to 4.

Mark

[tyler_henderson]

To add to what Mark said, you may find a design where the "Used In" says it is not referenced in any other designs, but when you try to delete it, a message tells you that it can't be deleted because it is in use.  This typically means the design was used in an earlier version of another design, but it's not used in the latest version.  It's currently not easy to find the design that has used another design in a previous version.  That's something we plan to improve in the near future. 

[TrippyLighting]

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@tyler_henderson wrote:

To add to what Mark said, you may find a design where the "Used In" says it is not referenced in any other designs, but when you try to delete it, a message tells you that it can't be deleted because it is in use.  This typically means the design was used in an earlier version of another design, but it's not used in the latest version.  It's currently not easy to find the design that has used another design in a previous version.  That's something we plan to improve in the near future. 

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That is very good to hear! Tanks for the update!