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CircuitStudio search never finds anything!

KennyMillar
KennyMillar over 6 years ago

Apparently CS uses a far more advance user interface than my simple human intellect can understand!

So I have an schematic page open, and I want to add a component. It's not in my installed libraries, so I'll check the vault....

 

I open the Vault Explorer, and click on Unified Components in the tree in the left hand panel:

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So it's a very popu;ar transistor I want to find: MMBT3904

So I enter MMBT in the Search field at the top of the right hand panel - hit return - Nothing! "No item to display"

So I enter MMBT* in the search field, - nothing.

 

"Hold on!", I think to myself, "Look, there's a 'Search' tab on the left too!"

"What a numptie!", I call myself, for having missed the only-slightly-obvious search tab. It's at the bottom of the tree. See it? No. Neither did I.

Anyway, with 'Search' selected at the bottom, the 'Search' at the top has now transmogrified into 'Generic search'. "Great!" I exclaim, with much anticipation.

"Now this will surely work!", and then I realise I'm talking to myself. Shamefully, I enter MMBT into the new generic search field and with bated breath hit Return one more time.

 

Still nothing happend. Then, after a while, nothing continued to happen. Nada. Zilch. Zippo.

Oh, well. I gues I'm not cut out for 21st century user experiences. I'd have thought they'd try to make things labelled 'Search' perform a search.

 

Anyone able to show an old fart like me, how to search for a simple component?

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  • IanJ
    IanJ over 6 years ago +1 suggested
    Yep, No.1 on my wish list is for Altium to get on and fix the vault, it is absolutely hopeless. It'll soon be 2020 and this is what we have to use. There are tricks to use the vault to get the most out…
  • tarribred61
    0 tarribred61 over 6 years ago

    Thx for the humor. There were problems with the vault last August that were corrected. That thread should have some information that might help you. I think you will find others in agreement that the interface has room to improve.

    Search the forum for "vault search not working" and dated in Aug or Sept 2019.

    [edit] here is the link: https://www.element14.com/community/message/280293/l/re-object-reference-not-set-in-vault-explorer#280293

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  • clem57
    0 clem57 over 6 years ago

    I find stuff like this can be hard to use. KennyMillar Try Google instead. It works like a charm for even this... https://componentsearchengine.com/MMBT3904-7-F/Diodes+Inc. ( from a Google search on MMBT3904 circuit studio library)

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  • IanJ
    0 IanJ over 6 years ago

    Yep, No.1 on my wish list is for Altium to get on and fix the vault, it is absolutely hopeless. It'll soon be 2020 and this is what we have to use.

    There are tricks to use the vault to get the most out of it.......but it just doesn't have to be that way!

     

    Ian.

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  • KennyMillar
    0 KennyMillar over 6 years ago in reply to clem57

    Thanks @BB-AI/Sphere for the tip. I use search engines like that all the time, my favourite is SnapEDA - but I'd like to see the vault working properly too!

    I thought it was just me, but seems others find the vault to be useless too.

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