Searching Projects

  1. Open a StarTeam perspective or view.
  2. Click Search for StarTeam Items. Alternative: you can choose Search > Search from the menu. The Search dialog box opens.
  3. Select the StarTeam Search tab.
  4. Type the text for which you want to search into the Regular expression text box.
  5. In the Search in area of the dialog box, select any desired server, project, view, or folder that you wish to search in.
  6. Use the Type list to narrow your search to specific StarTeam item types and properties. Select Files in from the list and then choose the Comments property from the Look in options to search Comments included with Files only.
  7. From the Look in options, choose one of the following:
    All properties
    Returns all item properties. An item is accepted if the string representation of the value of any of the item properties matches the given regular expression.
    All properties by current filters
    Processes only properties in the current filter that are applicable to the chosen type.
    Note: you can see the list of these properties by opening the This property list box when Choose from all properties by current filters is selected.
    This property
    Select to specify a single property to be processed.
  8. From Options, you can select:
    Match case
    Returns only items that match the case as entered into the Regular expression field.
    Recursive
    Seeks matches in all folders beneath the selected items from Look in.
  9. Click Search.
The results will be displayed in the Search view and on the StarTeam Search Results tab.