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A search tab (Search tab) is present in many places in iTop. Click on this tab to toggle the display of a multi-criteria search form. Inside the form, the search button (Search button) is used to launch the search once the criteria has been met.

A search form

All the criteria of the search form is combined using an AND operator. This means that when searching for Tickets, if you specify Demo as the Organization and High as the severity, the search results will list all the Tickets of the Organization Demo which have a High priority (Organization = Demo and Priority = High).

Date Fields

To Be Updated: in iTop 2.3.0 the date and time format is configurable.

The format for dates used by iTop is always the same. The year is displayed with 4 digits, followed by a dash, followed by the month expressed with 2 digits, followed by a dash and finally the day with 2 digits. (In short: YYYY-MM-DD)

For the fields containing a date and a time, the format is the same for the year. The date is followed by a space, then the hours with 2 digits (24 hour format) followed by a colon (:), followed by the minutes with two digits followed by a colon (:) and the seconds with two digits. (In short: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss).

Shortened dates and times:

The time, (also the day or even the month information), can be omitted for the date expression. In this case, the resulting date will be equivalent to the beginning of the period. For example, searching for >2012-12 is equivalent to searching for >2012-12-01 00:00:00. Searching [2011,2013] will match all dates in 2011 and 2012, since it will search for [2011-01-01 00:00:00,2013-01-01 00:00:00]

When a field contains a date, some special operators are allowed. Such operators are specified by typing them directly in the search field:

Operator Meaning Example
< Strictly less than Type <2012-01-01 to search for any date before the first day of 2012
> Strictly greater than Type >2011-12-31 to search for any date after the last day of 2011
[date1,date2] In the range [2012-01-01,2012-01-31] To search for any date in January 2012 (including the first and last day of the month)

When placing the pointer of the mouse over a date field, a tooltip containing information is diplayed:

Operators on date fields

When a search field is a date and time field, remember to use the operators to specify your search. In fact, searching for tickets which Close date is “2012-11-01” will probably not return any match, since it is quite unlikely to find many tickets which were closed exactly on 2012-11-01 at 00:00:00. So, to find all tickets closed on the first of November, use the syntax: [2012-11-01,2012-11-02]

The Global search feature is located at the top right of all iTop pages.

Global search

The global search searches for the given string of text inside all the objects in iTop. To launch the search, enter the text to search for and click on the magnifying glass icon or press the ENTER key of your keyboard.

The search results are displayed by groups: all the matching objects of the same class are grouped together in one table.

Since the global search searches in all the objects of the iTop database, it can become quite slow when the number of object increases. However, you can speed-up the search by limiting its scope to a given class of objects. The syntax to specify the scope of the global search is as follows: class_name: text_to_search.

Global search scope: Server

Searching for Server:webserv will search for all server objects containing the text “webserv” in any of their fields.

To limit scope, you can also specify X as a class that has subclasses. For example:

Global search scope: Contact

Searching for Contact:dali will search for all Teams and Persons containing dali in any of their fields.

The global search is not case sensitive. Searching for Dali, dali or DALI will give identical results.
2_3_0/user/search.txt · Last modified: 2018/12/19 11:40 (external edit)
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