From the course: Learning Autodesk Vault
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Using searches and search folders - Vault Tutorial
From the course: Learning Autodesk Vault
Using searches and search folders
- [Voiceover] When you initially set up Vault, you may only have a few files. Over time, you may have thousands of files, including DWGs, PDFs, documents, and images. Navigation will be clean if you keep your folder structure well maintained. But the easiest way to find files is within the Search tools. Let's try that now. First, I'm going to add a couple files to our existing data structure. Inside of Vault, we have My Project, Notes, Office, and Source, without any files in our current Vault. So I'm going to drag and drop, from our Exercise Files, My Lazy Dog into the Office folder, because it's a Windows doc file, click OK, and we're going to put the PDF, Vault Best Practices Whitepaper, we'll put that in the Notes subfolder, click OK. And there we are. Now, at any time, we could pick on the Vault Explorer, and you'll see the Search Vault Explorer, and you can just type something in. So if I'm looking for, say, dog, so I'm just going to go *dog*, the star being a wild card or a way…
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