IM InfoSphere Identity Insight, Version 8.0

Searching in the information center

To search topics in the information center, enter a query in the Search field and click Go. The Search Results view in the left side of the interface displays the top 500 ranked results.

Figure 1. The Search field
search window

Select a search result to display that topic in the right side of the information center. The words from your query are highlighted in the displayed topic. When you select a topic from the search results list, optionally click the Show in Table of Contents (Synchronize icon) icon on the information center border to show the location of the topic in the Contents view. The Contents view opens on the left, in front of the Search Results view.

Searches are not case-sensitive.

Table 1. Searching in the information center

Task                                                    

Steps

Toggling between the Contents view and the Search Results list

Click the Contents tab (Contents icon) or the Search Results tab (Search Results icon) at the bottom of the Navigation pane on the left side of the information center.

Searching for exact words or phrases

You can identify a search phrase as an exact string by enclosing it in double quotation marks. For example, “log file” searches for the string "log file" together, not the separate words "log" and "file". Without the quotation marks, the search term is interpreted to find instances of both the word "log" and the word "file" in the topics.

In English and German only, the search engine “stems” other forms of a single search word. For example, a search for the word "challenge" will also find the word "challenging". Surround the terms you enter in the search field with double quotation marks when you do not want your search results to include such variations of the terms.

Searching with wildcard characters

You can use the following wildcard characters:

  • Asterisk (*) represents multiple unknown or variable characters in the term. For example, the search term "par*" returns "partly", "participate", "partial", and other words beginning with "par".
  • Question mark (?) represents a single unknown or variable character. For example, the search term "par?" returns "part" but not "partial" or "partly".

Searching with Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)

You can insert the binary operators AND, OR, and NOT in your search term. For example:

database AND "log file"
Narrows the search to return topics that contain both of the terms “database” and “log file” anywhere in the topic.
database OR "log file"
Widens the search to return topics that contain either the term “database” or the phrase “log file” anywhere in the topic.
database NOT "log file"
Searches for topics that contain “database” but that do not contain the phrase “log file”.
database OR "data base" NOT "log file"
Searches for topics that contain the term “database” or the phrase “data base” but do not contain the phrase “log file” anywhere.

Narrowing your search scope

By default, all topics shown in the Contents view are searched. You can, however, narrow your searches to a particular set of topics (called a search list) and save search lists to use again later.

To create a search list:

  1. Click the Search scope link next to the Search field. The Select Search Scope window opens.
  2. Select Search only the following topics and click the New button. The New Search List window opens.
  3. In the Topics to search list, select the navigation categories that you want to include in your search. You can expand categories to select only certain subcategories.
Note: In some browsers (for example Konqueror and Safari), the functionality to save search lists is not provided.

The search list that is currently active is always shown at the top of the information center, next to the Search scope link. The search list that you used most recently persists across sessions.

     

Showing and hiding summaries

You can show or hide descriptions for the topics in the Search Results view.

By default, the topic summaries are hidden, as shown in the following figure.

Figure 2. Show summary option off
Search results window with no summaries shown

To show the topic summaries, click the Show Summary link. The search results include a short description of the topic after the title, as shown in the following figure.

Figure 3. Show summary option on
Search results window with summaries shown

Click the Hide Summary link to hide the summaries of all the topics and display only the titles of the topics.

Enabling and disabling search highlighting

By default, the search terms are highlighted in a topic that you selected from the search results list. You might want to disable this feature to print or read the topic.

To disable highlighting, click Turn Highlighting off (Highlight off button).



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Last updated: 2011