Overview of searching for documents

How do you retrieve a FileNet document from a library that might contain thousands of documents?

Use the Search page or a search window to find documents when you don't know which folder to look in or in libraries where folders are not used. Your web administrator can also create stored searches and search templates for you. You access and execute those searches either from a Search list on the Search page or in a search window, in the list view, or from a bookmark.

A document identification number identifies each document, and you can retrieve any document from a library by specifying its ID number. But you might not remember document ID numbers, especially when you are dealing with many documents. For documents stored on CS libraries, you can also search for document content, words, and phrases in a document.

After you enter search criteria, you execute the search. The result of a search is a list of documents that satisfy the criteria. You can select documents from the results list and open them in the IDM Viewer or in their registered applications.

You can do the following:


See also

Overview of stored searches and search templates

Bookmark a search

Email the URL of a search

Get the URL of a search