Searching for artifacts using their Artifact IDs is the easiest way. To search by more complex criteria, you can perform an advanced query. Advanced queries allow you to search using user names of people associated to artifacts or dates when the artifact was modified. For example:

• you can search for "all artifacts assigned to me" or "all artifacts created by John Smith."
• you can search using a date and time relative to when an artifact was created, or a combination of the last time it was modified and when it was created. All relative times, such as "in the last week" are calculated based on the time when the query is run.

Note that if you search by modification (change) date, Project Tracker also returns artifacts that have been created but have not been changed since their creation date. This is because Project Tracker treats the creation date as a modification date.

You can search for artifacts using their relationships with each other as the query criteria. For example, you can search for:

• Artifacts which are children of any of the artifacts: SC1, SC2, SC3
• Artifacts whose parents are any of the following: SC4, SC5
• Artifacts which have a particular relationship to any of the following: SC6, SC7
• Artifacts which do not have a particular relationship to any of the following: SC6, SC7
• Artifacts which are duplicates of the above can be excluded.

Query definition pages may contain additional (non-default) input fields that are based upon any attribute groups that have been defined for the artifact type.

To access the Advanced query page:

1. Select the Query artifacts tab on the Project Tracker page.
2. Click the Create New button.
3. Click the Advanced Query sub-tab.

On the Advanced query page, you identify the artifact type or types that you want to use in the search. You can optionally specify additional search criteria, such as a date range, particular users associated with an artifact, and so on. Query criteria include:

• Artifact ID
• Personnel associations
• Attribute value change
• Relationships