When you enter a word or phrase in the help system's Search text box, the help system searches the content of all topics to find all occurrences of that word or phrase. By using the full-text search feature, you can find a topic title, if you know it, or every occurrence of a word, concept, or feature in the system.
To find information by using full-text search:
Click the Search tab.
In the text box, type the word or phrase you want to find and press Enter.
To make the search more precise, add Boolean operators or wildcard expressions to your search. See Advanced Searching Techniques for more information.
When you enter keywords to search, follow these guidelines:
Searches are not case-sensitive, so you can type your search in uppercase or lowercase characters.
Search for any combination of letters (a-z) and numbers (0-9).
The help system ignores punctuation marks such as periods, colons, semicolons, commas, and hyphens.
Group the elements of your search using double quotation marks or parentheses to set apart each element. You cannot search for quotation marks.
If you are searching for a file name with an extension, group the entire string in double quotation marks, (for example, "essbase.properties"). Otherwise, the period breaks the file name into two separate terms.
When you search for a single word, such as "data," the search returns a list of topics that contain the word "data" anywhere in the topic. The search also returns topics that include the word's grammatical variations, such as "database" and "dataset."
When you search for a phrase, put the phrase in quotation marks so that the search returns a list of topics that contain the literal phrase. For example, enter "creating users" in quotation marks; otherwise, the search returns all topics containing any of the individual words instead of the phrase as a whole.