Ideally, a message or document can be found via

• the document number,
• the document date,
• the sender or
• the receiver or if necessary over
• the file name.

However, it also happens that you want to find a message according to other criteria ¹⁾. This can be done in two different ways:

1. with the help of a 3rd party tool²⁾
2. with eBiss via the document selection

With Notepad++ you can search all files inside a directory and its subdirectories for content. How to do this is described in the Notepad++ UserManual.

The command is. Search → Search in files³⁾

Enter your search text in the 'Find What:' field, specify the directory in the directory field or click the '…' button to specify a directory, and click 'Find All'.
Once the search is complete, you will get a window in Notepad++ with the locations of each file along with the line numbers and your highlighted search term. Note that unfortunately the files will not open automatically for you.

If you search for a message in eBiss, you usually also know the context like e.g.:

1. document type
2. document date
3. Transmission path or message box in which the message to be searched must be.

With these basic data one moves into the message box where the messages initially⁴⁾ arrive into the eBiss. In the message box view one changes the view on Documents in which one makes the appropriate restrictions by means of filtering on the basis the above-mentioned basic data around the number of the documents to be searched to minimize. For example, if you have restricted to a certain day and document type and if necessary message recipient or sender, hopefully only less than 100 documents remain (the number of documents should be limited to a minimum, because we have to load all of them into the memory). These can now be marked with [Ctrl]+[a] all to be loaded with the manual debugging against the appropriate mapping. This way you have all documents instantiated as source object in the mapping and you can use search in the source object with search term or string to find the corresponding document.