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

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  NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,413

  April 9

  That works for me?

  Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI

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  eldon_brown Member Posts: 38 ✭✭

  April 9

  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.

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  glen_dewsbury Member Posts: 589 ✭✭✭

  April 9 edited April 9

  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?
  
  
  

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  eldon_brown Member Posts: 38 ✭✭

  April 9 edited April 9 Answer ✓

  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.

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  S1mon Member Posts: 2,384 PRO

  April 9 Answer ✓

  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.

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