Administering Documents

Use the Administer Documents tab to search for a specific document based on an object type, property, and other selected criteria (see Table 245). After the document has been located, you can either delete or edit the associated properties.

Table 245. Object Type Search Criteria 

Field

Description

Object Type

Interactive Reporting document object type.

Select Property

Property by which you want to search on the document from the pull-down list. Complete the search condition by selecting a value in the Search Criterion field below. For example, if you specify a Name property, type the name of the document in the Search Criterion field below.

Search Criterion

Use this field in conjunction with the Select Property field above. Once you have selected a property complete the search conditions by specifying the value of the property. For example, if you selected the Order Type property, you might type Interactive Reporting document in this field.

Case-sensitive Search

If you want the search engine to distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters when determining which documents to retrieve, click this field.

Wildcard Search

A wildcard is a special symbol that represents one or more characters and expands the range of your searching capabilities.

You can use the % wildcard symbol to match any value of zero or more characters. For example, to documents whose properties contains “1997 sales”, type:

1997 Sales % 

in the Search Criterion field.

Search

Retrieves the search results.

Clear Search

Clears the results of the current search.

Search Results

Results of the search.

Delete

Deletes a selected document from the repository.

Edit

Enables you to edit the value properties of a document through the Properties tab of the Register To IBM Information Catalog option.