Find panel

The Find panel enables you to search through the Document for most kinds of objects and text.

Find properties

Find

In this combo-box, select the type of object you are searching for. Font – Select the font from the combo box, or enter a search string. See Font search strings. Text – Enter text to search for. Object type – Select an object type from the drop-down list. For example, to search for Sections, select this option and select Section in the drop-down list to the right. Modification – Enter the name a property to find objects that have modifications set on this property. Variable – Enter a variable name included in XPath expressions, stored page variables, or scripts (if you have specified to included scripts in your search). XPath – Enter an XPath that has been specified on a Substitution, Repeater, Switch or Modification. URI – Enter a URI that have been specified on images, Fragments or Substitutions. Translation – Enter a key that has been set on a translation substitution. Object ID – Enter a specific object Id. Language – Select language/country code from the drop-down list, or enter a language code with an optional country code (e.g. nl-NL for Dutch). An empty Find field returns all languages except for the default language. This means if no results are returned, only default language is used for all text. Color – Enter a color code to search for. For example: – CMYK – search for all CMYK colors. – RGB(>0, *, 0) – search for all RGB colors where R value is greater than 0, G value has any value, and B value is 0. Message – Select to search for items in the Message tree. In the Look in drop-down list you can select to narrow down the search to either sample data, labels or descriptions. Style – Enter a search expression to find text styles. For more information, see Text style search expressions.

 

Find properties
Find	Object name – Searches for objects with a specific object name. The search operation returns matches for: – Object names edited by the user – Names automatically acquired from resources (OTMM, Design Center( – File names from File, HTTP, and FTP repositories – Original names of available embedded resources – Values of Case nodes. Data – Searches for nodes and attributes in the Data template tree. In the Look in drop-down list you can select to narrow down the search to either data node names, text() nodes and attribute values, or destination XPaths of data template nodes. Note: For the following object types, you can leave the search field empty to search for all objects of the selected type: Font, Modification, Variable, XPath, URI, and Translation, Language, Style, Message and Color.
Match case	Select if the query is case sensitive.
Match whole word	Select to only include results with the whole word. Note: For fonts, this applies to the whole font name. For example, specifying Arial does not return Arial Bold.
Not containing value	Select to find all objects except those with the specified value. For example, searching for Verdana font returns all objects that do not use the Verdana font.
Look in	Select the scope for your search: • The entire Document • Selected range of text/objects • Current view • Current Fragment (Requires that Fragment View or Fragment Story View is open) Note: If you have selected Message in the Find drop-down list, the options are Labels, Sample data, and Descriptions.
Scripts	Select to include scripts in your search.
Resources	Select to include resources in your search. This includes both linked and embedded resources. Note: Only resources available from the Document at the time of search are included.
Function files	Select to include function files in your search. Note: Only included if StoryTeller is started from Design Center.
Results table
#	The sequence number of the result in the order of the document (from beginning of the document to the end).
Type	The object type.
SubType	Additional information about the object, or the owner object.
Name	If available, the name of the object.
Path	A path composed of the parent object names (if available) or object types. The path starts with the root object.
Value	The value of the object found, e.g. a word, a font and its size etc.
Content	E.g. the beginning of the text in the paragraph with returned text.

Text style search expressions

When searching for text styles, you specify the character style ID and/or paragraph style ID. The character and paragraph style IDs are separated with a semicolon, where character styles are entered before the semicolon. You can search for several IDs separated by a comma.

Note:

The ID values are temporary and may change as soon as a resource is reloaded.

See examples below:

4	Character style 4.
;1	Paragraph style with ID 1.
*;2	All character styles and paragraph style with ID 2.
4,5;3	Character styles with ID 4 or 5 and paragraph style 3.
2,3;7,8	Character styles with ID 2 or 3 and paragraph styles 7 and 8.
	Empty field returns all styles