Creating a Specification Search Directly As a Query
Use
You can create specification searches, however complex they are, as queries immediately after they have been executed and execute them again as often as required. The search can also contain executed queries, loaded sets of hits , and where-used lists for specifications .
Caution
Selections of individual specifications in the hit list are lost if you create the search as a query. This has the following effects:
Where-used lists for specifications are executed for all specifications in the hit list when you execute the query.
Sets of hits reduced manually contained in the search are lost and are not taken into account when the query is executed.
Prerequisites
You have change authorization for the query group in which you want to create the query.
You have run a specification search or loaded a set of hits and are located on the hit list screen.
Procedure
Choose one of the following paths:
Utilities
Display Search History
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Utilities
Query
Save
A screen appears that displays the step overview of the search history
.
Save your entries.
The
Save Query: Create
dialog box appears.Enter data as required. To enter the key for the query in the
Grp entry
fi
eld, you can choose one of the following options:Enter a new key manually and create a new query.
Choose an existing query using the input help. This is then overwritten.
Confirm and save your entries.
Result
The screen that displays the step overview of the search history appears again
.
Go back to return to the hit list.
Note
You can also create a query step by step in a tree structure (see Creating and Editing Queries ).