Searching event records
About this task
You can search in the event log for event records that match one criterion or multiple criteria.
Procedure
- On Windows systems only, if you have not already done so, select objects to examine.
- Click Edit > Find. The Find Event window opens.
- In the Find Event window, specify at least one criterion
for the search.
- From one or more of the following lists, select
an entry.
- Operation
- A command that changes the data in the VOB. For example, to search for events that created a branch, select mkbranch.
- Object
- On Windows systems, an occurrence of an object type in the event log; for example, a branch.
- Object Kind
- On Linux and the UNIX system, an occurrence of an object type in the event log; for example, a branch.
- Host
- The host computers that are displayed in the history of the element.
- In one or more of the following fields, type a
text string.
- Event ID
- Type the numeric identifier for the event you want to find. If you know only part of the ID, click Use Pattern Matching and right-click in the field to enter special characters to aid in the search.
- Version
- Enter a number or part of the version (for example, main\13) that corresponds to the event record you are searching for.
- Comment
- Type the text string that you want to search for in the event records. For example, to find all elements that have the phrase "bug fix" in a comment, type "bug fix".
- Labels
- Type a label that is part of the event record that you are searching for. If you know only part of the label, click Use Pattern Matching and right-click in the field to enter special characters to aid in the search.
- Attributes
- Type a space-separated list of attributes that you want to search for.
- From one or more of the following lists, select
an entry.
- Optionally, select the following actions to qualify
the text string that you entered in Step 3.b:
- Match Case
Finds only text that matches the case of the text string you specify.
- Use Pattern Matching
Lets you insert special characters in a text string that you specify to form a pattern matching string. Click the desired character position in the field.
- On Linux and the UNIX system, type the special character.
- On Windows systems, either right-click and select the character to insert or type the special character.
For example, if you are searching for a label, and do not know the full text, use pattern matching to qualify the search criterion.
- Match Case
- Click Up or Down to indicate the direction of the search in the event log.
- Click Find Next and the next
occurrence of the text string is selected.
- If you are searching up and the search comes to the beginning of the
event log, a window opens which provides you with the following choices:
- Stop Find to end the search
- Wrap to End to continue searching down to the starting point
- If you are searching down and the search comes to the end of the event
log, a window opens to provide the following choices:
- Stop Find to end the search
- Wrap to Start to continue searching up to the starting point
- If you are searching up and the search comes to the beginning of the
event log, a window opens which provides you with the following choices:
- Repeat Step 6 until you find the records you want.
- To interrupt the search, click Stop Search in the Find Event window.
- To close the Find Event window, click Close.
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