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How to search for a Document Name, when only a few middle characters are known.
eldon_brown
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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*
For example: *Connector*
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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.
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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.
Simon Gatrall | Product Development, Engineering, Design, Onshape | Ex- IDEO, PCH, Unagi, Carbon | LinkedIn
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That works for me?Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA0
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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.0
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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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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.0 -
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.
Simon Gatrall | Product Development, Engineering, Design, Onshape | Ex- IDEO, PCH, Unagi, Carbon | LinkedIn
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