Searching linked documents

[Colin Richardson]

We have some information that we store in linked documents as notes fields cannot contain tables.

Any ideas on how to search all the linked documents in the repository for a given string?

Ideally it'd be nice if simple model search did this :-)

[Geert Bellekens]

I'm afraid it won't be that easy.
Linked documents are stored int he the the database in the table t_document as a zipped RTF file.

You can however write add-in searches, so you could write an add-in, that reads the contents of the linked documents, and searches the text.

see this page for more info: http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/9.2/automation/add_in_search.html

Geert

[Colin Richardson]

Yeah, thought you'd say that Geert ;-)

Had the same issue with the audit and had to write a batch to extract and denormalise the data so the custom add-in search could work at a decent pace.

Sigh. Here we go again :-(