Search for and Filter Drawings

Objective

To search for and filter drawings in the project's Drawings log.

Things to Consider

  • Required User Permissions:

    • 'Read Only' or higher permissions on the Drawings tool.

  • Additional Information:

    • The search function respects any selected filter parameters and will only search for items within the filtered results.

    • The Drawings tool remembers up to five of your last searches. The list of recent search terms appears when you click into the Search bar.
      Note: Click 'x' if you want to remove a recent search term from the list.

    • If you want to search for text that appears within drawings, see Search Text Within Drawings.

Steps

  • Search for Drawings

  • Filter Drawings

  • Sort Drawing Sets

Search for Drawings

  1. Navigate to the project's Drawings tool.

  2. Enter a term in the search bar.
    Note: If you want to search through only drawing numbers or titles, enter one of the following search modifiers into the search bar:

    • Enter "number:" before your search term to search drawing numbers.

      drawing-number-search.png

    • Enter "title:" before your search term to search drawing titles.

      drawing-title-search.png

  3. Click Search.

  4. To clear the search, click the 'x' in the search bar.

Filter Drawings

  1. Click the Add Filter drop-down menu.

  2. Select the filter you want to apply. The following filters are available:

    • Discipline

    • Set Name

    • If custom fields have been added for the project's Drawings tool, you can filter by fields of the following type: Single Select, Multi Select, and Checkbox. See Create New Custom Fields.

Sort Drawing Sets

  1. Click Drawing Sets.
    Note: Make sure the List icon-view-list.png view is selected.

  2. Click one of the following column titles to sort by that parameter:

    • Name

    • Set Date

    • Published

    • Unpublished