Creating new search criteria for a broken link search

The Broken Links dialog box allows you to select a search criteria. All available search criteria are stored in the MPP_BrokenLinkSearchCriteriaList preference. Each value in this preference is, in turn, a preference that holds a list of properties contained in the search criteria. As an administrative user, you can create your own search criteria and save them under a new criteria name. Doing so creates a new preference of the same name as the search criteria that holds the list of properties you specified. Teamcenter adds the name of the new preference to the list of available search criteria in the MPP_DefaultCandidateSearchCriteria preference. In this way, the new search criteria that you created is available to every user.

Nonadministrative users can see these search criteria in the Broken Links dialog box. They can modify them and save their changes to a user preference with the same name as the original search criteria preference. The next time they use the search criteria, they see the values stored in the user preference including their modifications. If they want to use the original search criteria that the administrative user saved, they must delete the user preference.