The Finder is a modeless dialog that allows searches for specified elements in the active canvas. The Finder dialog behaves in the same way in Cell Illustrator and CI Player:
- Search is performed in 3 steps: enter a search string into the Search For edit box, select search options using the checkboxes, and press the Find button.
- Regular expressions can be used to find groups of similar elements.
- Elements found in the search process are displayed in the Search Results list box at the bottom of the dialog. Also, the number of found objects is displayed above the list box.
- Clicking an item in the Search Results list box selects exclusively the corresponding element in the workspace. After clicking on a list item, one element is always selected in the workspace, regardless of how many elements are selected in the list. To select an object, the canvas that has been searched must be active. If the active canvas is changed after the search, the Search Results list is cleared.
- The program finds whole string matches only.
- The following object types can be found: entity, connector, process and hierarchical objects. One cannot use Finder to search for a group, even if it contains objects matched by the search.
- The Close button dismisses the dialog window.