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Filter the Explorer View

You can customize which objects are visible to you in the Explorer View tree so that you view only the objects pertinent to your work.

Follow these steps:

1. Click Filter on the Explorer View toolbar.

   The Explorer View Filter dialog appears.

2. Select Enable filter.

   The filter selections in the tree are enabled or disabled.

3. Specify the objects you want visible in the Explorer View tree by selecting them and completing the following fields and controls. When you select an item, the ancestor items are marked with a gray checkmark. This checkmark indicates that the item is visible, although not all of its children are visible. A black checkmark indicates that the item and all of its children are visible.

   Select All and Deselect All

   Selects or clears all check boxes in the tree.

   Package Filter Pattern

   Specifies a name pattern that limits the set of packages displayed in the Explorer View Filter dialog tree. By entering a name pattern, only those packages that conform to the name pattern are displayed in the dialog tree. The display is not updated until you click OK.

   Filter Packages

   Applies the package name pattern to the displayed tree view in the dialog only; it does not affect the Explorer View filtering.

   Use Regular Expression

   Specifies the package name pattern using standard regular expression syntax. The packages permitted by the pattern are visible wherever they appear in the filter dialog tree. You can then designate which packages are visible in the Explorer View by selecting their check boxes.

4. Click OK.

   The Explorer View is customized with your filter selections.