Using Find Facilities

With VP’s products, you do not need to spend so much time to browse through the whole project to look for a specific element. You can simply use the Find facilities provided to find the element without any trouble.

With this document, we will show you how to use the find facilities and how to conduct a more specific search using the provided find settings.

1. You can start by creating a new project which consists of some simple diagrams. For example, a simple use case, class and sequence diagrams are created in the project as shown below.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Now, click on the Edit menu on the main menu bar and select Find.... A Find dialog box will be displayed.
   
   
   
3. You can input any text in the Text field to find an element. For example put ATM there to find any ATM related elements. Click on the Find button to start the searching process.
   
   
   
4. You can look at the finding result for ATM at the Find Results tab of the Message pane that is located in the bottom of your screen.
   

To narrow down the focus of your search in further, you can enter the search criteria provided in the Find dialog box.

• Find in diagram: Choose one of the provided options from the drop-down menu
  • Find in all diagrams
  • Find in opened diagrams
  • Find in active diagrams only
  • Do not find in diagram
• Find in model (optional): The searching will include finding the elements among the created models.
• Include documentations of element (optional): The searching will include the documentations of the element.

• All model types: The searching will cover all model types in the diagrams.
• Selected model types: The searching will cover only a selected model type that is provided in the drop-down list.

• Case Sensitive (optional): Check to let the searching to distinguish between upper and lower case letters.
• Match whole words only (optional): The searching will only look for words within the scope that match the whole search text.

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