Name Space Searches - Overview

This page shows you the steps to do a NameSpace Search.

Here are the basic steps:

• Select Seed(s)
  • You need to select one or more NameSpace "seed" Items. Click the NameSpace Search button on the ItemType List screen. 
  • This bring up a list of only the ItemTypes that can create NameSpaces.  Therefore, these are the ItemTypes that are candidates for NameSpace searches.
  • Select the ItemType for the Seed Item(s)
  • Select the Seed Item(s) by doing an Extended Filter Search on that ItemType.  The search will confine itself to the NameSpace children of these seed Items.
  • Note: if you are viewing an Item Detail, it can become the NameSpace search seed automatically.
• Select ItemTypes to Search
  • Then select which sub ItemTypes are to be searched using checkboxes
  • Use an Extended Filter Screen to find those Items that meet the search criteria that are also in the NameSpace of the seed Item(s)
  • You get a list of Items, grouped by ItemType, that matched the search parameters AND are in the NameSpaces of the seed Item(s)

Also, if you are viewing an Item that creates a NameSpace, the "namespace search" button appears.  Clicking it, starts a NameSpace search, using the currently viewed Item as the NameSpace seed.  Below is a typical Item Detail screen that has a "namespace search" button:

Typical NameSpace Search Procedure

Select the Seed ItemType:

Clicking  the namespace search button displays the screen on the right ---->

Above, you initially see the normal list of ItemTypes in your SubjectArea.  If you click the "namespace search" button, then you will get a subset of ItemTypes.  The displayed ItemTypes are only the ItemTypes that can contain Items that create namespaces.  To do a NameSpace search, you have to select one or more "parent Items" or seed Items, that will be the top of a NameSpace hierarchy.  The NameSpace search will start with these seed Items, and look at all the Items that are in its sub-namespaces all the way down to the bottom of the NameSpace hierarchy. 

Find the Seed Item(s):

Above you click the ORA_USER ItemType, because you want the seed Item(s) to be of ItemType ORA_USER.  This immediately displays an Extended Search Screen on the right.  This screen will list all the attributes of the selected ItemType so you can qualify on any or all of the attributes to find the Item(s) to be selected as the Seed(s).  Then click the "OK" button.  The list of Items that match the qualifications will be displayed on the left.

Select The Seed(s):

This display lists the Items.  To select an Item as a Seed, check its checkbox. The Item's name consists of two parts.  The blue hyperlink is the Item's name.  The part to the right in black bracketed by square braces is the Item's fully qualified (parented) name.  It shows the entire NameSpace hierarchy of parent Items for this seed Item. If you click the blue hyperlink, you will get the Item Detail screen on the right, to help you make sure you have found the correct Items to be the seed(s) for you NameSpace search. You can select one or more of the listed Items. After putting checkmarks on the Item's to be searched, click the "Select Item Types to Search" button.

Select the Item Types to be Searched:

Above you presented with a list of ItemTypes.  This is the subset of ItemTypes in your Subject Area that are below the Seed ItemType that you selected.  These are the ItemTypes that are in the NameSpace of you Seed Item.  You select which ItemTypes you want to search.  You can select one or more ItemTypes.  When you click the button, an Extended Search Filter screen appears to the right.

This Extended Search Screen allows you to enter qualifiers on the Item Name and the attributes to search to find the Items you need.  If you select more than one ItemType to search, then the attributes listed on the Extended Search Screen are all the attributes of those ItemTypes combined together!

When you have entered the qualifiers, click the OK button.  The list if Items will display on the left.  If you want to change your search, merely change the qualifiers, and click OK again.  Do this until you find the Items you are looking for.

You can do a successive type search.  First enter the most general qualification.  Then list the Items.  If there are too many, enter more specific qualifiers.  This will then make the returned subset successively smaller until you have narrowed them down to the Items you are searching for.

Finding the Items in the NameSpaces rooted by the specified Seed Item(s):

Above are all the Items that met the search criteria.  Since multiple ItemTypes were searched simultaneously, then the Items that were found are displayed, grouped by their ItemType.  The above display had Items from three ItemTypes match the search qualifiers.

If you click the blue hyperlinked Item Name, the Item Detail screen will display on the right for that Item.