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To open the Select By Criteria Dialog go to the Draw ribbon tab and choose Select By Criteria from the Select ribbon group.
The Select By Criteria Dialog provides a way of selecting objects that meet a specific set of criteria. The criteria may include Area Numbers, Zone Numbers, Voltage Levels, Zoom Levels, and Object Type.
Use the dialog's controls to specify the selection criteria. Use the Area and Zone fields to select the areas and zones in which you want to select display objects. Ranges of area and zone numbers can be entered in the usual way, or you can check the All Areas or All Zones boxes to select all areas and all zones. You can also use the Area and Zone tab pages to check or uncheck areas or zones in which you want to select display objects.
Specify the max and min voltage levels for selected objects using the boxes that are provided, keeping in mind that all voltages are in kV.
Specify the layers for selected objects in the Layers tab. If not all layers are selected, the Layers Range option will be selected. If the All Layers option is clicked, then all the layers will be selected.
Next, select the type of object in which you are interested from the supplied list. To select items from this list, check the box next to the type of field(s) you desire. Display object types that are followed by a right-arrow, such as Area Fields, are expandable, meaning that they have several associated subtypes. If you checked a field type that has subtypes, you can highlight the type in the list to see the available subtype list. You can then more specifically select subtypes that you wish to include. By default, all subtypes of a general object type are selected. You also have the option for the list to display all fields available for a particular object type, or to display only the most commonly selected fields.
You can also choose to associate an advanced filter with a particular type of object in the list for selecting only objects of that type that meet the filter. To do so, right-click in the Filter column next to the object type for which the filter applies, or click on Add/Modify Filter… Some objects cannot be associated with an advanced filter, and the option will be disabled when that is the case for an object selected in the dialog.
Checking the option Group By Object Type will consolidate all the items by categories. All subtypes will automatically be included as a consequence. The filters are still available.
If the box Only Show Objects in Display or Already Selected is checked, only the items or categories (depending on whether the Group By Object Type option is checked) of objects existing or selected in the respective oneline diagram will be shown in the supplied list.
The buttons Check All and Uncheck All are useful to select/unselect all the items/groups in the list. The button Check Only Text Fields is available only when the Group by Object Type is unchecked, and when clicked on all the items that have text associated to them are selected, and the rest of the items are unselected. Clicking on the Reset To Defaults button will remove all the current selections and reset them to the default settings.
If you wish to select objects that do not have the chosen criteria, then check Select All Except What Meets the Above Criteria.
If you wish to only select objects that are currently visible on the diagram (due to layering, etc.), check the box labeled Select only currently visible objects to apply the criteria settings only to objects on the diagram that are currently visible.
If the Select by Criteria Dialog is open and some display objects have already been selected, an advanced selection option becomes available. If the box labeled Use as a filter on presently selected objects is checked, the criteria chosen in the Select by Criteria Dialog will only affect the previously selected objects. In other words, only the objects that were previously selected AND that match the chosen criteria will remain selected when the OK button is pressed. For example, you could use all the options available on the Select ribbon group on the Draw ribbon tab to select a group of objects on the oneline. Then using the Select by Criteria Dialog, choose the Bus criteria and check Use as a filter on presently selected objects to select only the buses from the rectangular selected group of objects.
Once you have selected the criteria and pressed OK, all objects that satisfy ALL the criteria will be chosen. If the Select All Except What Meets the Above Criteria is unchecked, then the selected objects will lie within the specified areas AND zones, the specified voltage level, and the specified zoom levels, and will be of one of the drawing types specified.
You can save your settings for your Select by Criteria session with the case by clicking Save As to save with a new name or Save to save with the current name. This allows you to re-open the Select by Criteria dialog, and quickly recover settings you may have previously used. Use the Rename to rename an already saved set, or Delete to remove a previously saved set of criteria.
If you have saved different criteria sets, you can export them all to an Auxiliary file by choosing Save to AUX file. The Load All from AUX file will load an entire auxiliary file, regardless of whether it contains Select by Criteria settings or not.
If you wish to clear all settings you have modified on the dialog, click the Reset to Defaults button.
Using this dialog in conjunction with the Format Selection Dialog, can be a very fast and easy way to customize your displays.
NOTE: When choosing to select all tie lines, all objects associated with the tie line will also be selected. This includes all line fields for the line as well as the two buses that are the endpoints of the line.