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Start CATIA. Login to ENOVIA
V5 VPM
and CES. For more information on logging in, refer to
Logging in to ENOVIA V5 VPM in CATIA and
Accessing CES Functionality.
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Click the
Search CES Database
button. The
Sourcing Search window appears.
The top portion of the window contains the Sourcing Search Criteria
and the Simple and Standard tabs. The bottom portion contains the
Category Browser, a graphical representation of the categories of
information that are available, on the Tree View tab, and the Attribute Based Category Search,
on the List View tab. You can use the Category Browser to
narrow your search by selecting one of the category nodes in which to
search. For more information, refer to
Category Browser. You
can use the Attribute Based Category Search, located on the List View
tab to locate categories based on attribute name and category name. For
more information, refer to
Attribute Based Category Search.


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Enter search criteria
appropriate for your database in the
Search From:, Type:,
and Search Form: text
fields. Right click the Right Arrow button
to the right of any of the
attributes and select Query Builder.
The CES Query Builder window appears.


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In the CES Query Builder window, the attribute for which
you are building the query is shown at the top. Immediately below that
is the Condition Type drop down box, the Search Criteria
Text Box and the Join Condition drop down box, as shown below.

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Select the desired Condition Type, enter Search Criteria
Text appropriate for your database, and select the desired Join
Condition. For this example, the Condition Type is
Contains, the Search
Criteria Text is Part and the Join Condition is
OR. Once you have
entered your information, click Add to add this to the Query Textbox,
which contains the query you are building. When you click
Add, you will
see the information you just entered added to the Query Textbox and the
corresponding equation added to the bottom
Query section.

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Next, enter the information for the next portion of the
query. In this example, the next portion has a Condition Type of
Contains, the Search Criteria Text is
R18 and the Join Condition is
OR. The OR is used in preparation for the next part of the query. Again,
click Add to add this to the query you are building.

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Click OK in the
CES Query Builder window and notice
that the attribute text box in the Sourcing Search window is updated
with the complex query you just created.

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Click OK in the
Sourcing Search window to actually
perform the search. For this example, the following
Search Results window appears.

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