How to search for a Document Name, when only a few middle characters are known.

eldon_brown

How can I use a "wild card" for Document File Name search that contains a sequence of characters in the middle of the Document Name?

For example:  *Connector*

eldon_brown

glen_dewsbury

***** Try "*mets*" as your search, I do not think it will work! *****

CORRECTION: I must not have be waiting long enough, It now WORKS for me also as "*flag*" !
(I must have too many files or a slow network connection)

Thanks, this answers the Question, Thanks ALL

I can now go back to my "CamelCase" and "Snake_Case" file names as desired.

Thanks.

S1mon

What I have found is that searching for "foo" will find "blah-foo-baz" and "blah Foo baz" but not "bing_foo_bar" nor "BingFooBar". Searching for "*foo*" will find all of them, but takes longer.

Underscores or camel case don't work as well for Onshape search, especially for people that forget to use the asterisks.

NeilCooke

That works for me?

eldon_brown

NeilCooke;

If it works for you, I must be doing something wrong.

It does work if the search word starts with a "space" (or nothing). For example, while looking for a Document like, "GoFlag_R01", searching for "flag" does not work for me. It does work if the Document name is "Go Flag_R01".

To be compatible with our downstream process as exported files, I use "CamelCase" or "Snake_Case" for file names for all Documents. I avoid "spaces" within names as most of our downstream processes (CNC, 3D Printing, Plasm, etc) and file storage run on Linux systems and therefore file names with spaces are a pain to manage.

A Onshape File Name Search with "wild card characters" would solve the problem and would be great.

BTW, the file system and lack of a good search function and a way to view a multi-level directory structure is one of the main reasons that we are moving away from Fusion 360.  I think I have over 3000 project files within a multi-level folder structure in my paid F360 subscription service and it is a terrible process (it really sucks) to try to search for very old projects.

glen_dewsbury

Eldon. I just tried the same thing and it worked. Are you sure that you have a document that includes that name or maybe a misspelling in the document name?

eldon_brown

glen_dewsbury

***** Try "*mets*" as your search, I do not think it will work! *****

CORRECTION: I must not have be waiting long enough, It now WORKS for me also as "*flag*" !
(I must have too many files or a slow network connection)

Thanks, this answers the Question, Thanks ALL

I can now go back to my "CamelCase" and "Snake_Case" file names as desired.

Thanks.

S1mon

What I have found is that searching for "foo" will find "blah-foo-baz" and "blah Foo baz" but not "bing_foo_bar" nor "BingFooBar". Searching for "*foo*" will find all of them, but takes longer.

Underscores or camel case don't work as well for Onshape search, especially for people that forget to use the asterisks.