You can use the Jazz® full-text
search method or the Team Artifact History search method to find work
items.
About this task
You can use the Jazz full-text
search to search the entire repository and specify the type of artifacts
to search. If you recently viewed the work item in the Eclipse client,
you might prefer the Team Artifact History search because the search
time would be quicker.
Procedure
- To search all work items in the specified repository:
- Click .
Note: Non-alphanumeric
characters, such as @, are discarded from the search text string.
- Enter the text string or phrase to use in the search
operation.
- You can include wildcard characters in your search string. Use
the asterisk (*) to represent any number of characters in a string,
and the question mark (?) to represent one character in a string.
You can also enclose a phrase within double quotation marks ()
to search for that exact phrase.
- You can select the scope of the search. You can limit the search
to work items, plan items, attachments, or attached pages.
- Click Search.
- To search recently opened work items:
- Click .
- Enter the text string or phrase to use in the search operation.
- You can include wildcard characters in your search string. Use the asterisk (*) to represent any
number of characters in a string, and the question mark (?) to represent one character in a string.
You can also enclose a phrase within double quotation marks () to search for that exact phrase.
- You can select the scope of the search. You can limit the search to work items, plan items,
attachments, or attached pages.
- Click Search.
Table 1. Example search entries and their results
Search entry |
Search results |
read* |
Artifacts 1, 2, 3, and 4. These artifacts have the words reader and
reading, which start with the search string read. |
held |
No artifacts. None of the artifacts have words that start with the search string
held. |
*held |
Artifact 2. This artifact has the word handheld, which contains the search
string held. |
"collect data" |
Artifact 1. This artifact has the exact phrase collect data. |
auto* |
Artifacts 1 and 2. These artifacts have the words automatic and automatically,
which start with the search string. |
automat |
Artifacts 1 and 2. These artifacts have the words automatic and automatically,
which have a root of “automat” and will match the search string. |
auto |
No artifacts. The word stems for the words automatic and automatically, which
do not match the search term. |
scenario |
Artifacts 3 and 4. These artifacts have the word scenario, which starts with the
search string scenario. |
press*coll* |
Artifact 1. This artifact has the words pressure and collect, which start with
both the search strings press and coll. |
Results
The results appear in the Search view. The value in the Score
column indicates how likely it is that the work item matches the text
that is specified in the query.