Pre-Filtering Catalog Browser

You can efficiently sort items exceeding fifty from a selected chapter. If a chapter contains more than fifty items, you can perform pre-filter on the selected chapter by applying conditions on the keywords to effectively find the entities.

Required access roles:

Baseline: Leader

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: Open a product in the Product Structure Design.
See Also
Filtering a Catalog in the Catalog Browser
Searching Within Chapter Structure
Searching Within Chapter Structure
Filtering a Catalog in the Catalog Browser

Use Catalog Browser

You can sort items by using the Catalog Browser.

  1. Open a catalog or chapter in Product Structure Design.
    The Object Selection dialog box appears.

    For more information about how to open a catalog in the Catalog Browser, see Opening a Catalog in the Catalog Browser.

  2. Choose a catalog from the search results list and click OK.
    The selected catalog is available in the Catalog Browser. The first level of chapters is also listed.
  3. Select the chapter exceeding fifty items, to reduce the number of items in the result.
    The Filter Assistant dialog box appears.
  4. Click Close to view all the items under the selected chapter (before applying any condition).
  5. Select keywords, operators and value from the keyword, operator and value list respectively, to list the filtered items according to the conditions defined.
    Note: You can now combine both AND/OR operators in the same catalog filter to create complex filter expression using the Advanced Query. For more information about Advanced Query, see Constructing a Filter using Advanced Query.

    The filtered result appears in the Catalog Browser.

Use Search Within

You can sort items by using the Search Within.

  1. To search within the structure of a selected chapter exceeding fifty items, click Search Within the selected chapter .
    The Search within Chapter41-63-ImportedAsNew 206 dialog box appears.
  2. Select a keyword, an operator and a value from the keyword, operator and value list respectively, to display the filtered items according to the conditions defined and click Display All.
    The right-hand section of the dialog box lists the entire content of the selected chapter.
    Note: If you add more conditions to the filter, the results are immediately modified.