The Advanced Find feature of ITOMweb allows you to find
a string of characters within a selected report or archive. Advanced
find supports column, page range, and match case search criteria,
and can display search results in context with page links.
- From the ITOMweb home page, navigate to either the reports
page or the archives page by clicking either Reports or Archives ,
respectively
- Locate the report or archive to be viewed, and click the
link in the TIMESTAMP column. The report or archive is displayed
in your browser.
- Click the Search for All Occurrences button.
- In the Advanced Find window, specify the following:
- Search string: Type the string of characters
to find within the report or archive.
- at Column: Type the column number at which
to search for the specified string of characters. ITOMweb searches
for the first character of the search string in this column and only
returns results that match the specified character in this column.
Tip: When
using Internet Explorer, you can highlight text within the displayed
report to identify the location of the highlighted text. The location
(row, column, and width) of the highlighted section is displayed on
your browser's status bar.
- in page range: If you specify a range of
pages in this field, only results that match the Advanced Find search
criteria within the specified page range are returned. Results matched
outside of this page range are not included in the results.
- Match case: If this checkbox is selected,
only results that match the exact case of the string in the Search
string field are returned.
- Exclude all other records: If this option
is selected, only the matched results are displayed.
- Show context and page links: If this option
is selected, the row preceding the matched row and the row following
the matched row are displayed. Additionally, a link to the matched
results in context of the report or archive is included.
-
Click Search. A list of the matched results along with string count
is displayed.