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ProjectWise Design Integration Forum What Search options are there for ProjectWise Web Server (no web parts)?
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    What Search options are there for ProjectWise Web Server (no web parts)?

    mike.lazear
    Offline mike.lazear over 6 years ago

    We are working with a client who has deployed ProjectWise Web Server (standalone IIS, no SharePoint web parts).  Their employees are accessing ProjectWise Web Server via a browser.  I'm trying to write up an explanation on how to do searching, similar to information I've given them for ProjectWise Explorer search capabilities.  Unfortunately I'm finding next to nothing when I look for this information. 

    What information I'm looking for:

    A clear explanation of all the wild card options.  

    Do the *, ?, %, _ all work the same way they do in ProjectWise Explorer?

    If not, what wildcards are there, if any?

    How is a space treated?  In PW Explorer it is an implied AND, is that also true for Web Server searches?

    An explanation of whether or not we can limit the search to be within a project or folder rather the entire datasource.  

    It doesn't appear that you can without using web parts, even in the advanced search this doesn't seem possible.  That's a huge issue for us if it can't because a search of the entire datasource can easily take 10+ minutes and end up returning way more results than desired.  It's also hard to tell from those results which file/folders are within the folder we are trying to look within.  Example: wanting to find a particular folder name "PLANT" within a single Project folder "ABC". We expect there are maybe 1-3 folders with the name "PLANT" within the project "ABC".  However, since the search is looking at the entire datasource, which contains a 1000+ projects what we get back is thousands of results.  Trying to find which of those results is related to the project "ABC" is possibly harder than manually digging thru the Project folder looking for what we want.

    Places I've looked:

    The help documentation - the explanation for each section of search is very sparse.  Nothing on wildcards that I could find.

    I've looked through the Bentley Communities ProjectWise site and didn't find much.  The following topic looked promising but as you can see there is nothing there:

    http://communities.bentley.com/products/projectwise/content_management/w/wiki/12229.search-projectwise-web-server 

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