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Advanced Advanced Find 2014

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I updated Advanced Advanced Find to the 2014 release and made some improvements along the way.  I briefly toyed with the idea of calling it Advanced Advanced Advanced Find, but that would just be silly.

If your not familiar with the app, it works much like the advanced find feature in Vault Explorer.  But my app adds the ability to do OR searches across multiple properties.


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New for 2014:

  • Save/load feature. 
  • Results are shown in a Vault Grid Control.
  • Double-clicking a result closes the dialog and takes you to the object.

Requirements:
Vault Workgroup/Professional 2014

Click here to download application
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Click here for the 2013 version

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5 responses to “Advanced Advanced Find 2014”

  1. MaxU77 Avatar
    MaxU77

    Our company decided to develop own serch utility.
    Features desired:
    1. Search with custom PS script.
    2. Subscribe to search results (including 1).
    First is already done. Second is real but tricky. If use WatchFolder techology – the security of JP seems to be at risk – custom PS script could kill JP. Do you have any ideas on how it could be done without security risks?

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  2. MaxU77 Avatar
    MaxU77

    meant – Search whatever (ex, using custom PS script).

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  3. Doug Redmond Avatar
    Doug Redmond

    Let me repeat the problem to make sure I understand. You want to automatically run a script that sends out search results, but you want to filter those results on the user’s permissions.
    There is no easy way to do this. You would need to…
    1. Grab the ACLs on all the files.
    2. Grab all the users/groups and their roles.
    3. Go through each file in the result set and determine if the user has access to that file.
    4. Repeat step 3 for each user that you are sending results to.
    Step 3 is a very complex algorithm, but my Effective Permissions app has some code you might be able to use. Personally, I don’t like using PowerShell for something that complex.
    Another approach would be to run the query client-side. For example, when the user logs in to Vault Explorer, the query runs in the background. That way, the Vault Server does the security check for you.

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  4. John Kavusak Avatar
    John Kavusak

    With this tool is there anyway to Search for items and files where a property like “Number” equals another property like “Drawing Number”? In the value field I tried to put Drawing number in quotes, brackets, and arrows but no luck.
    Thanks
    john

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  5. Doug Redmond Avatar
    Doug Redmond

    Sorry, the “value” part of a search condition is always a fixed set of text. It’s a requirement from the underlying search engine.

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