Selecting using wildcards
You can search for network objects using a string that contains wildcard characters. You can also select some or all of the objects found by your search on the network views.
To use wildcard search:
- Click the
(Find network objects) icon on the Operations
toolbar. This displays the Find
Network Objects dialog. - Enter a string to define your search term. For more information on valid search strings, see below.
- Use the checkboxes to choose what types of network object are to be searched.
- Decide whether the search should find matching object ID or asset ID. If you search on asset ID, InfoWorks WS Pro will use the object ID instead if the object's asset ID is blank.
The list of objects found is updated automatically every time you make a change to the search string or the object types being searched.
The list of found objects is displayed with the network object icon to the left of the object ID to make it easier for you to differentiate between object types.
Object selection options
Once you have completed your search there are a number of options for selecting objects:
- You can select all found objects by clicking the Select All Objects Found button.
- Select just one of the found items, and you can choose Select and Find. This will select the object and zoom to the object on the GeoPlan window.
- Select one or more items and choose Select Highlighted Objects to select them on the network views.
You select objects on the found list by clicking them, or clicking using the Ctrl or Shift keys to make multiple selections.
Choosing any of the above buttons will also close the dialog.
Search strings
A valid search string can contain the following wildcard characters:
* - zero or more characters
? - exactly one character
For example, if you use node names made up of coordinate values, with four figures for each coordinate, then you could use the following strings to search:
55??99?? would find all nodes in the given grid square (55, 99)
55??99* would find all nodes and links in the grid square
55??99*.? would find all links in the grid square
It is valid to use non-alphanumeric characters when defining network object IDs. However, it might become confusing, when doing wildcard searches, if you use the wildcard characters as part of a network object ID. We strongly recommend that you stick to alphanumeric characters when defining IDs.
Previous searches
The Find Network Objects dialog stores up to four previous searches so you can carry out these searches again if necessary. Choose the previous search from the Wildcard dropdown list.
