# Advanced Search

## **What is Advanced Search?**

Advanced Search is a powerful tool designed to help users identify the best material for their needs by using extensive, configurable search criteria. It offers virtually limitless possibilities by combining multiple constraints on both material properties and parameters.\
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**Criteria you can filter by include:**

* **Material Properties:** Chemical composition, mechanical properties, physical properties, user-defined properties, etc.
* **Material Parameters:** Material groups (e.g., stainless steels, polymers, fibers), company departments, material status, form, material dimension, material price, etc.

## **Configuring your first Advanced Search**

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In Advanced Search, only properties and parameters defined in the [CREATOR](/total-materia-integrator/creator.md) section will be searchable. Ensure all required properties and parameters are thoroughly set before attempting an Advanced Search.
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**Executing an Advanced Search**

Follow these steps to configure and run your first Advanced Search:

1. **Access Advanced Search:** From the Total Viewer top menu, click the Advanced Search link. This opens a new window displaying all available search criteria.
2. **Define Search Scope:** Choose your material source from the "Search in" dropdown list located in the Advanced Search page header. (By default, it is set to search internal materials.)
3. **Define Criteria:** Fill in or select your desired search criteria (e.g., *Material Designation: 304*, *Standard: Internal*, *Material Groups: Metals*, *Department: CAD*).
4. **Apply Criteria:** Click the ADD TO SEARCH button in the footer of the Advanced Search page to apply the defined criteria.
5. **Execute Search:** Click the SEARCH button to display the list of results. (For a detailed explanation of how lists and results are displayed, click here.)

**Managing Criteria**

* **Add Search Criteria:** Click the Add Search Criteria button to add an additional set of filtering rules to your existing search.
* **Clear Search:** Click the CLEAR button to remove all existing search criteria and start a new search.

<figure><img src="/files/rXq6jAz1GPOcbwhIQUZS" alt=""><figcaption><p><strong>Figure 1:</strong> Screenshot of Total Viewer with Advanced Search as the selected searching option</p></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="/files/ndaepNuRB85ek3uCgUn9" alt=""><figcaption><p><strong>Figure 2:</strong> Screenshot of Total Viewer's Advanced Search with its search options and defined criteria</p></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="/files/JHuIdNiH5uHf5DB7sskv" alt=""><figcaption><p><strong>Figure 3:</strong> Screenshot of Total Viewer's Advanced Search result list for the defined search criteria</p></figcaption></figure>

## **Search data by specific condition and its parameter**

Advanced search and its subsection "Conditions" allows user to search for data by specific property group and condition parameters.

The condition search consists of two search criteria named "[Property Groups](/total-materia-integrator/creator/data-maintenance.md#property-groups)" and "[Parameters](/total-materia-integrator/creator/data-maintenance.md#parameters)".&#x20;

Defining search criteria in the "Property Groups" multi-select drop-down list allows users to narrow the search to specific Property group(s) (e.g., "Welded Materials"), while selecting desired options in the "Parameters" multi-select list further refines the search results to the selected parameters. Both filters can be used independently of each other.

<figure><img src="/files/TFynlrTlthCuUr3peJBE" alt=""><figcaption><p><strong>Figure 4:</strong> Screenshot of "Conditions" in "Advanced Search" with defined search criteria</p></figcaption></figure>

## **Further Reading and Support**

***How does the Advanced Search work?***

To view how the Advanced Search works, click on the following [link](/search-tools/advanced-search.md), section "Configuring your first Advanced Search".

To view how to define searching criteria for Mechanical or Physical properties, click on the following [link](/search-tools/advanced-search.md), section "Defining a criteria on a Mechanical or Physical property".

To view how the search results are displayed, click on the following [link](/total-materia-integrator/total-viewer/search-tools/results-and-material-lists.md).

***Advanced Search for Total Materia Horizon materials***

To see how to apply Advanced Search for searching Horizon materials, click on the following [link](/search-tools/advanced-search.md).


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