Displaying Results of the Advanced SearchTool
Creating a new tab in the result tab
You can create a new tab so as to avoid mixing results.
To create a new tab in the result window:
1. Perform a search.
2. In the search result window, click Keep result in a new window 
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.Your result appears in a separate tab, allowing it to be kept in case of re-execution of a query.
Customizing result tab columns
By default, the result tab presents the following columns for each object:
• short name
• long name
You can customize these columns. Each column corresponds to an object property.
To customize columns of the search result window:
1. Perform a search.
2. In the search results window, click Show 
> Customize columns.
> Customize columns.
The Use Generic Objects option presents the objects resulting from the query as abstract MetaClass instances. For more details on abstract MetaClasses, see Abstract Metamodel.
The Column Display Customization dialog box allows you to add or remove columns for a given MetaClass.
Each new column corresponds to a MetaClass characteristic.
If you want to sort result window results by object type, add the MetaClass column.For object types in a namespace, the short name is also indicated by default. Memorizing columns
To store in memory the columns to be displayed when executing future queries:
1. Access the user options (Tools > Options).
2. In the Options tree, select Query.
3. In the right pane, select the Result: Keep displayed columns option.
The next time you perform a query, the result window proposes the same columns as those previously defined.
Reinitializing columns
The list of columns displayed depends on the object types of the query.
To reinitialize the columns:
1. Access the user options (Tools > Options).
2. In the Options tree, select Query.
3. In the right pane, select the Result: Reinitialization of result list columns option.
After each query execution, columns corresponding to characteristics not connected to queried targets are removed.
Displaying results as a list
By default, results appear in the form of a list 
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. When you click Display result objects list, duplicates are eliminated (i.e. duplicates of objects that appear in several recent queries).
For example, if the "Urgent Order" organizational process appears in several recent queries (ie. it appears several times in the query tree), it will appear only once in the list.
Display result objects list is equivalent to 
in the result window.
in the result window.Displaying queries that produced the result
You can display results as a tree, which enables viewing of recent queries that produced result object collections.
To display query results as a tree:
1. Click Display tree of recent queries and result objects .
2. Double-click the recent queries to show the result objects.
You obtain a tree enabling identification of the different queries executed with their result sets.
Displaying objects common to several result sets
The 
button is used to restrict the view to only those objects common to all recent queries.
button is used to restrict the view to only those objects common to all recent queries. and buttons only appear when Cumulative mode is selected.Refreshing result window content
You can rerun execution of queries that produced the list of objects in the result tab.
To refresh results:
In the query results window, click Refresh 
.Modifying Objects in the Result Window
You can use the query result window to update the characteristics of objects it contains.
Modifying an object
To modify an object from the result window:
In the result window, right-click the object and select Modify.You can then modify the selected characteristic, for example the object name.
Modifying a selection of objects
You can also modify the characteristics of a selection of objects (for example, assign the same characteristic value to a selection of objects).
To display columns corresponding to the different object characteristics, see Customizing result tab columns.
To modify a selection of objects from the result window:
1. Select the objects you want to modify.
2. Click the object characteristic you wish to modify and in the pop-up menu of the selection, select Modify.
3. Then modify the characteristic value.
4. Press "Enter" to validate.
The data is updated for all objects in the selection.
