Find/Select elements via Custom Properties and Description researchs

Question

It is currently possible to search through nodes or edges via only one text field, the "main label".

Text driven research should be possible on additional fields. Thus :

• Description,
• URL,
• Custom Properties,
• ...

should also be researchable.

Such a behaviour of the find/selector functions would enhance the power of research through graphs. In addition it would increase the interest of tailor-made custom properties.

Answer 1

If we were able to use default character search (eg: *, +, !), it would be a great advantage to navigate on big graphs.

Answer 2

I would strongly benefit from such a search on custom properties. Especially if it would be possible to mark/filter/find all nodes with a given match at once to set common color or shapetype or something like that.

Comments

Setting a common color or shape type according to values in URL/Description/custom property is already possible using "Edit" -> "Properties Mapper".

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Yes and no ;-)
May be it should work for my needs but I run into the problem that most of my mappings are at group level which does not work. That leads me to another existing feature request (<http://yed.yworks.com/support/qa/93/>).

Answer 3

Supported in "Edit" -> "Find" and "Tools" -> "Select Elements" as of yEd 3.17.