Search 'multiple properties' excluding path

[BoganD2]

It would be nice if we had the ability to exclude path from a general search. I've run into issues in the past where searching for a part populates hundreds of files because they are used in a folder that has the searched words. it would be nice if we could exclude that from the search.

[ihayesjr]

@BoganD2 

Thank you for posting this idea, but this is already possible.

Open the Find dialog. Select the Basic tab.

In the Look In field, select the folders you want to search. 

[BoganD2]

@ihayesjr So in most situations this issue presents itself while looking for a machine in a projects folder that has not been previously released. So I will be searching all of the project folder for Machine ABC and I may get 10 folders within that project folder that have that machine name in it. This produces a list of files from all of those folders and makes it hard to search. A great example of this is the structure of our released folder. Our released folder is setup by process area then divided into subfolders based on drawing number. This results in sub/folders like 00001-01000, 01001-02000, so on. if i am searching for a drawing number that happens to end in 1 or 0 i will get all files in that sub/folder where i just want the 1 file with that name. 

It is possible to search by only file name but when looking through the project folder I may not know if they have put a description in with the machine name, if it's simply going to be the file name has the machine name or if it's going to be in a random iproperty. Which is why just excluding file path from the search is helpful.

[ihayesjr · Accepted solution]

If you are trying to narrow down your search, then you should be using the Advanced Find tab and add more properties and values to use for the search.

[CGBenner]

@BoganD2 

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