DesignLink Search Guidelines

• Every word matters. Describe what you need with as few terms as possible.
• Search is always case insensitive.
• Drawing numbers and part numbers can be searched with or without dashes.
• Search accepts dashes, slashes, and commas.

• Wildcards (*, ?)
  A wildcard is a character that may be used in a search term to represent one or more other characters. The two supported wildcards in DesignLink are:
  1) The question mark ("?") may be used to represent a single alphanumeric character in a search expression. For example, searching for the term "gbx ?-series" would yield results which contain such words as "gbx e-series" and "gbx l-series".
  2) An asterisk ("*") may be used to specify zero or more alphanumeric characters. For example, searching for the term "*3200*" would yield results which contain all drawing or part numbers (or other documents) that contain 3200. It can also be used as the last character in a search string.
• Phrase search ("")
  By putting double quotes around a set of words, you are telling DesignLink to search the exact words in that exact order without any change.
• Search on a specific subject
  DesignLink allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given field: title, drawing or part. For example, if you wish to search on a specific drawing number you would enter: drawing: 123-456-7899