Searching for artifacts in a module

You can search for an artifact in a module and replace one text string with another. You can also search for an artifact by section number or artifact ID.

About this task

During the Find operation:

• Visible content in the module is searched. Content in collapsed sections and string attributes that are not displayed in the module view are not searched.
• String attributes and content for text artifacts are identified in a search. Embedded artifacts, such as graphical artifacts, are not searched.

Tip: If you have recently opened the artifact, click the Recently Viewed Artifacts icon to locate the artifact from a module.

• Complete the following steps to search for an artifact in a module:
  1. Open the module.
  2. Click the Find/Go To icon .
  3. In the window that opens, on the Find tab, type the text to search for and specify other options as needed. To find an exact text phrase, type the text within quotation marks.
     Important:

     • Specifying search strings that are composed of only special characters is not supported.
     • The Find operation is an exact phrase search. Partial words and multiple words can be used as search strings in the Find tab, but wildcards are not supported.
     • The Find operation ignores the following common words: a, an, and, are, as, at, be, but, by, for, if, in, into, is, it, no, not, of, on, or, such, that, the, their, then, there, these, they, this, to, was, will, and with. If you perform a Find operation by using any of these words, no matches are found.
• To find and replace text across all of the artifacts in a module, open the module and click the Find/Go To icon . Type the text that you want to replace and the replacement text, and then click Find, Replace, or Replace/Find as needed.
  Note: Only string attributes and content for text artifacts are identified in a search. Use the Go To tab when you know the section number or the artifact ID.
• To locate and select an artifact in a module when you know the section number or the artifact ID, click the Find/Go To icon . Click the Go To tab, and type either an artifact ID number or a section number and then, click Go To.
  To show section numbers, click the More actions icon , select Configure Columns to Display, and add the Section column.