View all text from design files

That would be a task for VBA or other programming language, and you will probably have to write it yourself.

You could get advice on your code at  MicroStation Programming Forum  You can also search the forum for other posts asking something similar.

SB Owens said:

My end goal is to be able to search for a string of text and then be able to tell which design file that text is present on

Write a Report that shows text, model and DGN file name.  You can write the result of a Report to a CSV or Excel file.  Once you have your Report working, use the batch processor to enumerate your DGN files.

Alternatively, adopt MaryB's suggestion, and create a VBA macro to enumerate DGN files and report text for each one.  To get you started, here's a VBA text search macro we wrote earlier.

As Jon suggested the best approach to see all text within a file would be to use a report.

SB Owens said:

My end goal is to be able to search for a string of text and then be able to tell which design file that text is present on.

Do you mean which reference it is in or would you be checking different files. The ability to search for a specific text string is possible already through the Select by Attributes or the Find/Replace Text tools

SB Owens said:

My end goal is to be able to search for a string of text and then be able to tell which design file that text is present on.

Thanks

windows  explorer search function already  has this feature to search for  strings as  long as  mstn is  installed on the same  pc you can get a  list of  files that contains  specific string or specific text, not sure  how to export this to a list but  command  line has  findst command , if you  know  powershell you may also be able to do this ( not tried).