Reference for Find Comments Window

Comments Tab

Use this tab to restrict your search based on the comment data. If the boxes on this tab are left empty, the search returns all comments within the criteria set on the Date Modified and Source tabs.

Text

The exact text to search for in all comments. This can be a word or a few words. So for, example, typing redline, and running a search, returns only the comments that contain a single “redline” word.

If you don’t know the exact content of the comment, you can use the wildcards. To match one single unspecified character use the symbol “?” (question mark). To match any number of unspecified characters either before or after the text, use the symbol * (asterisk). For example, if you want to find all comments that contain some text before and after the word redline, type *redline* in the Text box.

Author

The exact author name to search for in all comments. Use the wildcards if you don’t know the exact author name.

ID

The exact comment ID to search for. You can only use numbers here.

Status

Selects the comment status to search for.

Match Case

Select this check box if you want the search to respect lower and upper case characters.

Match Diacritics

Select this check box if you want the search to respect diacritics. Diacritics are the marks above or below characters that indicate different pronunciation of the character, for example, é, è, ë, ê, É.

Match Character Widths

Select this check box if you want the search to respect character widths. This is primarily used for languages that use fullwidth and halfwidth characters, such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Date Modified Tab

Use this tab to specify a date range within which the comments must have been made.

All Comments

The search returns all comments. This is the default option.

Between

Select this radio button if you want to search for all comments modified between the specified dates.

During the Previous Months

Select this radio button to locate all comments modified in the last X number of months.

During the Previous Days

Select this radio button to locate all comments modified in the last X number of days.

Source Tab

Use this tab to restrict the search by the source that the comment is attached to. By default all check boxes are selected.

Clash Detective

Select this check box if you want to find the comments attached to Clash Detective results. Clearing this check box excludes the comments related to clashes from the search results.

The Clash Detective feature is available for Autodesk Navisworks Manage users only.

Selection Sets

Select this check box if you want to find the comments attached to selection and search sets. Clearing this check box excludes the comments related to selection and search sets from the search results.

Quantification

Select this check box if you want to find the comments attached to Quantification items. Clearing this check box excludes the comments related to Quantification from the search results.

TimeLiner

Select this check box if you want to find the comments attached to TimeLiner tasks. Clearing this check box excludes the comments related to TimeLiner from the search results.

Viewpoints

Select this check box if you want to find the comments attached to viewpoints. Clearing this check box excludes the comments related to viewpoints from the search results.

Redline Tags

Select this check box if you want to find the comments attached to tags. Clearing this check box excludes the comments related to tags from the search results.