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Find Forms

Forms exist at the highest level and are available in all projects defined in a CA Harvest SCM installation; you can access them without any context. Packages exist in a project and state. In these contexts, you can use the associated packages to determine which forms to display:

• If your context is at the project level (no state specified), only forms associated with packages in this project display.
• If your context is at the state level, only forms associated with packages in this project currently located in this state display.

The Find Form dialog lets you execute complex filtering operations to locate forms with common attributes. You can also use the Find Form dialog to select forms according to their association with packages.

To find a form

1. Click CA Harvest SCM, Find Form.

   The Find Form dialog appears.

2. Complete the fields in the dialog. Following are descriptions of fields that are not self-explanatory:

   Note: Form fields in the Find Form dialog are not case-sensitive; however, information is stored exactly as it is entered.

   Name

   Filters forms according to a naming pattern. If you leave the default wild card (*), forms display regardless of name. You can use any number of wild cards (*) in any position for multiple character matching. The use of the question mark (?) is also supported for single character matching. The Name field is not case-sensitive, for example, entering N* shows forms whose names begin with N or n. You can specify multiple form names at the same time by separating the names with a semicolon.

   Form Type

   Specifies the type of form to display to filter by its fields.

   After you select the form type from the drop-down list, select the Use Form Contents option to enable the Form Contents expandable area. The Form Contents area is expanded to show the form contents for selection. When the specified form displays, you can query on the various fields of that form.

   You do not need to know the precise value for a field to use it as a filter. You can use asterisks (*) in any field for wild card matching. For example, you might want to search for all Problem Reports that mention performance anywhere in the problem description. To do this, enter *performance* in the Problem Description field. CA Harvest SCM returns all matching Problem Reports to the Form dialog's list.

   In general, you can use trailing wild cards in short text fields such as Category and Hardware on the Problem Report form. For longer fields such as Problem Description, you can use any number of wild cards (*) in any position for multiple character matching. The question mark (?) is also supported for single character matching.

   Click Find.

   The forms matching the filtering criteria are listed.

   Note: Until you click Find the results are not refreshed to your specified settings.