HyperView User's Guide

Filtering Entities

Filtering Entities

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Filtering Entities

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You can filter the entity types that appear in the browser’s tree structure by clicking the Filter option located on the Toolbars tab in the Browser Configuration window.  The Filter allows you to determine which categories of entity appear in the browser’s tree structure.  Clicking this feature adds a new list box to the browser, named Show: which is located below the browser view controls and any drop-down menus that are open.  Click this list box to open a list of all the entity types that HyperView can display in the tree structure.

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Each entity type in the list has a check box next to it; click the check boxes to toggle the display of that entity type as a folder in the browser’s tree structure.  For example, the Components folder only displays in the tree structure if Components is checked in this list.  In this way, you can make the tree structure shorter and easier to navigate by removing entity types from the browser list that you do not need to work with.

Notice that the list of available entity types includes its own mini-tool set, with the same buttons for Display All, Display None, and Reverse Display as described in the Global Display Tools.  However, in this case they are used for Select All, Select None, and Reverse Selection.  In addition, the list contains buttons labeled OK and Cancel.  When you are satisfied with your selection of entity types, click OK to close the list.  Otherwise, click Cancel to discard your changes and close the list without altering the Results Browser’s tree structure.

You can also select groups of entities based on a wildcard search.  Accomplish this via the Matching: combo text/list box.  For example, if you type *system into this combo box and press ENTER, then all entity types ending with "system" will be checked and display in the list.  Fine-tune the search/selection by choosing an option from the hv_model_browser_filter_arrow button:

Match case only selects tree items that match the entered text exactly, including upper/lower case letters.
Whole name only selects tree items whose entire name matches the specified text.  For example, typing pillar in the matching field when using the whole name option will not locate a component named "CH-A-PILLAR-B-I-L".  To find such a component, you would need to run a wildcard search for something such as *pillar*.