Main screen

Add a system or part of a system

Edit a system or part of a system

For more information about DEAR, see the IEA Team's website.

Training courses on DEAR are available--contact the IEA Team:

Colleen Coggins, Chief Architect
Suzanne Acar, Data Architect
Michael McGreer, Technology Architect
Carl Huls, Indian Trust Architect

Find

This is a search function to help you with the Edit Mappings screens. You can find the information you're looking for without having to know the entire name or which branch of what system it's under. Note that you can also select mappings directly from this window.

Name

Here you enter the name you want to search for, using wildcards or other expressions as needed, then click the Search button.

Search type

The radio buttons allow you to do different kinds of searches. The Wildcards radio button does a basic search, using "?" as the wildcard for a character, or "*" as the wildcard for any number of characters. So entering "Jo?n" would get you "John" and "Joan", but entering "Jo*" would get you "Jo", "Joe", "John", "Jonathan", etc.

The Sounds Like radio button searches for words that might sound like your entry.

The Advanced/Regular Expression button lets you do a very complex search. A regular expression is text that has some ordinary characters and some special characters, called metacharacters, that give you more freedom to make a search very specific. For instance, you could search for phone numbers with this regular expression: " \([0-9]{3}\)[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4} ". This tutorial explains how to put together a regular expression...or read about the power of regular expressions. This site has examples of regular expression searches, for everything from forms of a name or an address, to an Australian telephone number!

Search results

This field shows the results of your search; the checkboxes let you map the results without having to leave the Find window.

Hierarchy

Select one of the results in the results field to see its hierarchy here. You can click in the checkbox beside a line to map that line. Do NOT check any DOI-tracked systems unless you know what you are doing; once checked, these cannot be unchecked.

Filtering

If you get too many results, use these radio buttons to look at just the mapped or just the unmapped results.

OK

This button saves your mappings and returns you to the screen you opened the Find window from.

Cancel

This button returns you to the screen you opened the Find window from, without saving your work. You will get a popup window asking if you want to discard your changes.

Where you go next

"OK" and "Cancel" will both take you back to the screen you came from.

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