Defining the Selection Criteria for an Area Filter

Purpose

Follow this procedure when you want to add or amend the selection criteria that specify which items are included or excluded for an area filter.

To define the selection criteria for an area filter:

  1. From the Area Definitions main window, select the Area Filters tab and select the area filter for which you want to define the selection criteria in the navigation pane. This will display the template details in the content pane.

  2. Do one of the following:

    If you want to...

    Then...

    add a new excluded selection criterion

    In the Excluded Selection Criteria section, click the Add button: add_button00053.gif The Add Selection Criterion dialog box appears.

    add a new included selection criterion

    In the Included Selection Criteria section, click the Add button: add_button00054.gif The Add Selection Criterion dialog box appears.

    edit an existing selection criterion

    Select the criterion in the Excluded Selection Criteria or the Included Selection Criteria section of the content pane and click the Edit button: editbutton00055.gif The Edit Selection Criterion dialog box appears.

    delete a selection criterion

    Select the criterion in the Excluded Selection Criteria or the Included Selection Criteria section of the content pane and click the Delete button: Delete_button00056.gif This will display a dialog box asking you to confirm the deletion.

  3. If required, enter the file path pattern to use for matching the files that you want to exclude/include in the File Path Pattern field. For details, see About File Pattern Matching.

  4. If you want to only exclude/include items belonging to a particular design part, enter the design part specification in the Design Part field, or use the browse button browsebutton.gif to select it.

  5. If you want to include the child design parts belonging to the selected Design Part, select Recurse Part Structure.

  6. If required, from the Data Format list, select a data format for the items you want to exclude/include.

  7. If required, from the Item Type list, select an item type for the items you want to exclude/include.

  8. Click OK.

Related Topics

New/Edit Selection Criterion Dialog Box

About Area Filters