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Search your data in Alloy​

Alloy provides a powerful search feature to help you find the data you're looking for. You can search for any type of object (e.g. items, designs, interfaces, workflows) within the current customer project.

After choosing a category and typing a search term, Alloy will search every attribute of every object in that category. This lets you search for objects based on data that isn't necessarily visible in their title/subtitle. We call this Global Attribute Search (GAS).

Note

Items won't appear in search results if you don't have permission to view them.

  1. Select Search in the right panel menu to open the Search panel.

  2. If necessary, select to clear the previous search.

The search box containing the previous search term
  1. Choose a search context:
Select a suggested category

When the search box is empty, Alloy displays a list of suggested feature categories (which can be customised). Select one to continue.

Note

Locations is a special category that lets you search for any address or landmark and locate it on the map. To learn more, see Location search.

The search box displaying the suggested categories popover
Select a design/interface to search within

To search for items of a particular design or interface, start typing any part of its name and select it when it appears.

Note

If you select an interface, you can search the items of all designs that implement it. However, only their interface attributes will be searched.

For example, searching the Defects interface will search the items of all your defect designs. It will include item attributes inherited from the interface (e.g. Reported Date) but exclude item attributes defined by a design (e.g. the BS5837 Category attribute in your Tree Defects design).

The search box displaying designs that match the typed keyword
  1. Alloy will list the results of your chosen context. If you're lucky, the one you want will be near the top, so you can select it with minimal scrolling 😉. If not, proceed to the next step!
The search box listing items of the Street Lights design
  1. To search the list of results, type one or more keywords into the search box and press the Enter key. You can search for text, numbers, dates or times. Alloy will display all results that contain full or partial matches. For more detail, see Flexible search terms.
The search box listing Street Lights items matching the typed search term

  1. Select a result to open it and view its details.

  2. To return to the search results, select Search again, or use your web browser's Back button.

    The results will be unchanged, so bear in mind they could be outdated (e.g. an item may have been deleted). To refresh the results, select the search box and press the Enter key again.

Note

Want to view items in more detail? Select at the top of the search results to load them in the Data Explorer.

The Street Lights items from Step 5 displayed in the Data Explorer

Recently viewed​

By default, the Search panel shows your 20 most recently viewed objects.

If they're covered by the suggestions popover, press the Esc key to dismiss it (or select an empty area of the right panel menu).

Demonstrating how to dismiss the suggestions popover