Searching for content in 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.

About this task

For example, 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.

Procedure

To search for content in multiple classes:

  1. Create a search and select your repository or open an existing search that you want to modify to search multiple classes.
  2. In the Search Criteria section, click the Class drop-down list.
  3. Add the classes that you want to search to the Selected Classes list.
    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.
  4. Click Search in multiple classes.
  5. For 3.0.10 and later, click Include all properties if you want to list all the properties of all the selected classes in the Search Criteria.
  6. Click OK to save the class selection.
  7. If you want to remove a class, click the Class link next to Search Criteria and select the classes that you want to remove from the search criteria.
    At least one class must remain selected.
  8. Configure your search by editing the properties as needed.
    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.

    For 3.0.10 and later, you can search properties that are not common among the selected classes if you clicked Include all properties. For Content Cortex, this option is for a single search only.