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Find Files

The Find File dialog lets you locate files and select files from a list. It also supports multiple filtering operations to let you search precisely. In addition, you can use the Find File dialog simply to obtain file information, which can be output to the Output Log.

You can open the Find File dialog from a number of process execution dialogs by clicking the browser button on the dialog. For example, to open the Find File dialog from the check-in process dialog click the plus sign.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the browser button next to a files list on a process execution dialog.

   The Find File dialog appears.

2. Complete the dialog fields:

   Name

   Specifies a name or naming pattern; this enables Find.

   Note: You can use any number of wild cards (*) in any position for multiple character matching. For single character matching you can use the question mark (?). You can specify multiple file types at the same time by separating them using the OR symbol (|). For example, you can enter: *.cpp|*.h|*.txt to locate cpp, h, and txt files.

   Look in

   Specifies a directory to search for a file. Clicking the button next to this field opens a dialog, which lists directories in the current client directory. You can navigate through the file system by double-clicking a directory or by selecting a directory and clicking OK.

   Include subfolders

   Shows files in every directory below the current one that match the file name filtering criteria.

   When you select Include subfolders and click Find, CA Harvest SCM expands each directory so that the file names displayed in the list include relative paths from your current position.

   Date

   Specifies a date range for the search. By default, the All files option is selected, indicating date checking will not be performed. Selecting the Modified between option lets you select different date searches that can be performed. You can search between two dates, search the previous x number of months, or search the previous x number of days.

   Use Regular Expression

   Specifies the file name pattern using standard regular expression syntax.

   Click Find.

   The files matching the filtering criteria appear in the list and are selected.

3. Click OK.

   All selected files are returned to the calling dialog.