To search topics in the help system, enter a query in the Search field. The Contents pane displays the top 500 ranked results. Click on a search result to view the topic. The words from your query are highlighted.
To toggle between the navigation tree and the search results list, click
the Contents tab or the Search Results
tab at the bottom on the Contents pane.
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, not the separate words log and file. Without the quotation marks, the search term is interpreted as log AND file.
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. Use double quotation marks when you do not want stemming.
You can insert the binary operators AND, OR, and NOT in your search term. For example:
database AND "log file" To narrow your search to include topics that must contain both of the terms database and "log file" anywhere in the document.
database OR "log file" To widen your search for topics that contain either database or log file anywhere the document
database NOT "log file" Searches for documents that contain database without log file anywhere the document.
database OR "data base" NOT "log file" Searches for documents that contain database without log file anywhere the document.
By default, all topics shown in the Contents pane are searched. However, you can narrow your searches to a particular set of topics, called a search list and save search lists to use again later.
The search list that is currently active is always shown at the top of the help browser, next to the Search scope link. The search list that you last used persists across sessions of the help system.
For more information on the search function, go to the Apache Jakarta Web site at jakarta.apache.org.