- Enter search terms in uppercase or lowercase. Examples: (1)
jdk
(2) jDk
(3) JDK
Multiple terms are treated as if there were an OR operator between each term. Example: installation setup
is interpreted as
installation OR setup
- Put quotation marks around the words in a phrase. Example:
"create a security policy"
- Capitalize logical operators AND, OR, NOT. Example:
"Content Java API" AND "properties file" AND configuration
Alternatively, you can use the operators &&, ||, ! for AND, OR, NOT, respectively. Example: "Content Java API" && "properties file" && configuration
- Use parentheses in queries with multiple logical operators. Example: To retrieve documents that include the term
"
WebLogic"
and include either the term "
installation" or the term "setup", use this query:
(installation OR setup) AND WebLogic
Not using parentheses can return different results than expected. For example, the above query without parentheses would be interpreted as follows: installation OR (setup AND WebLogic)
This query would retrieve documents that include the term "installation", or include both terms "setup" and "WebLogic".
- Search terms can include wild cards, but a wild card can't be the first character.
To perform a single-character wild card search, use the ? character. Example: To find documents containing "URI" or "URL" you could use UR?
To perform a multiple-character wild card search, use the * character. Examples: (1) workflo*
(2) Wcm*State
- To do a proximity search, use the tilde (~) character at the end of a phrase. Example: To search for "publish" and "transform" within twenty-five words of each other in a document use this query:
"publish transform"~25
Note Proximity searches are not supported by highlighting.
- Highlight search terms If this option is selected, the terms or phrases that you search on are highlighted when you open a retrieved document. This option is configurable.
- Results per page The number of retrieved documents listed on each page.
- Sort results by:
- Computed Relevance. Orders results using a document scoring algorithm. Based on term/phrase frequency and other factors, a weight value is assigned to each word in the query, and a resulting overall relevance rating is assigned to each document that meets the search criteria.
- Title. Alphabetically orders results based on the HTML <title> tag strings.
- Help Category. Groups results based on the help categories of the retrieved documents. (Documents are assigned a help category during indexing.)
- This option is configurable.
<% if (request.getParameter("userType").equalsIgnoreCase("admin"))
out.println("- Search all or selected help Filters displayed results based on help categories. If you want all of the results to be listed, do not select help categories.
");
%>
You can modify the look or behavior of a configurable option, including turning the option off. Search options are configured in <app_root>/search/search.properties.