Search multiple classes

You can search for items in multiple classes in a selected repository. Searching for content in multiple classes is useful if you do your work in more than one parent class in a repository, and you want to search for content in those classes.

You cannot search properties that are not common among the selected classes. The properties that are available in the properties list show only the properties that are available and are common among the classes.

In Repository A, you might be working with content in three classes:

You store content in the Email class.
You edit policy documents in the Policies class.
You create forms in the Forms class.

You need documents in each of these classes for your current project, and you are searching each class for the files that you need.

To make the search easier, instead of searching each class individually by using three separate searches, you create a single search to find documents in all of these classes in Repository A.

To enable searching for multiple classes in your selected repository, in your search criteria, you must enable the option to search multiple classes.

1. Create search and select repository or open existing search and modify to search multiple classes.

2. Left click Class field in the Search Criteria section. A drop-down menu appears.

3. Left click Search in multiple classes. The contents of the drop-down change to two lists, Available Classes on the left and Selected Classes on the right.

4. Add the classes that you want to search to the Selected Classes list using the arrows in between the lists. If you want to include subclasses of a class, you must add each subclass to the Selected Classes list. For example, if you select a parent class, but you do not select any subclasses, the search applies to the parent class only.