With the object manager you can search for and select objects that you want to display or edit.

You are familiar with the validity concept of the application. The validity concept determines which objects you can find during a search.

The object manager consists of the search area and the selection area.

• In the search area are one or more search functions for each object type, for example the Search Term and Structure Search functions. These search functions are marked with . In addition, the object type itself can contain a search function. The object types are marked with the respective object type-specific symbol.
• In the search area you can create search variants, so that you can reuse search criteria you have grouped together, or hits. These search variants are marked with .
• In the selection area the system displays the objects that you searched for and actually found. According to the search function, this can be either a hit list or a structure.
• You can scroll through search results in the selection area using and .
• You can completely hide or display the object manager, so that the other screen areas get correspondingly bigger or smaller. To do that, choose Settings → Show Object Manager or Hide Object Manager.
• With you can increase or reduce the size of the selection area, in order to show more hits. As you do that, the search area is hidden or displayed accordingly.