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Search Web Views

A web view is an interactive rendition of a Simulink® model that you can view in a web browser. You can use web views to navigate either hierarchically or by searching to view specific subsystems and see properties of blocks and signals.

Perform Search

  1. In a web view, at the top of the displayed tab, click the search button icon of a magnifying glass.

  2. In the search box, enter the search term.

    Search strings are case-insensitive. The search treats the string as a partial string.

  3. To specify search criteria, click the search criteria button and select the types of model element you want to search in.

    Search for model, with name, block type, and mask type elements selected

  4. Press Enter.

The elements of the model that the search returns appear highlighted in yellow. The search results include the name and parent for each returned element. The selected search result will also have a blue highlight within the yellow highlight.

Search results pane showing the selected web view results, and the model with the associated blocks highlighted.

Sort Search Results

You can sort the search results in alphabetical order. In the search results table, click the Name or Parent column.

Navigate Between Search Results

To navigate between search results:

  • Select a highlighted model element

  • Select a result from the search results list

  • Select the search result up or down button (since R2024b)

  • While the search results list is the active window element, press the up arrow and down arrow keys

The Object Inspector pane displays the selected model element or search result.

Hide Search Results

Since R2024b

To hide the search result list, clear the View List check box.

Model search results user controls. The View List checkbox is highlighted by a red box.

You can navigate between search results when the search result list is hidden by using:

  • The search result up and down buttons

  • The up arrow and down arrow if the search result list is the active window element

The top pane will not resize when you hide the search result list. You can manually resize the pane after hiding the list by dragging the edge of the pane to the desired size.

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