WebSphere Extended Deployment, Version 6.0.x
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Searching this documentation

Improve your search results by understanding how to formulate your queries and restrict your search to a given scope.

Searching all documentation

To search all documentation topics included in the table of contents, enter a search term in the Search box on your information center border and click Go.

Information center search

The search results are displayed in the navigation area, replacing the table of contents. When you select a topic from the search results list, optionally use Show in Table of Contents on your information center border to show the location of the topic in the table of contents.

Show in Table of Contents

Additional buttons let you toggle between displaying the search results and the table of contents in the navigation area.

Information center contents button Show table of contents

Information center search button Show search results

   
Searching part of the documentation By default, all topics shown in the Contents view 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.
To create a search list:
  1. Click the Search scope link next to the Search field. The Select Search Scope window opens.
  2. Select the Search only the following topics button 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.
  4. Name your new search list, using the List name box
  5. Click OK.
  6. Click OK again.

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 that you use the system. In some browsers (for example Konqueror and Safari), the functionality to save search lists is not provided.

   
Removing search highlighting

The search highlighting feature highlights the occurrences of your search terms in a topic you selected from the search results list. When many occurrences of your search terms exist in a topic, the search highlighting feature can disrupt your reading.

To remove the highlighting from a topic, locate the topic in the table of contents, using Show in Table of Contents.

Show in Table of Contents

Select the topic from the table of contents. The topic is reloaded into the content area, with the highlighting removed.

   
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, 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 wild cards
You can use the following wildcard characters:
  • * Asterisk - for 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 - for 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 include topics that must contain both of the terms database and log file anywhere in the document.
database OR "log file"
Widens the search to include topics that contain either the term database or the phrase log file anywhere the document.
database NOT "log file"
Searches for topics that contain database and which do not contain the phrase log file anywhere the document.
database OR "data base" NOT "log file"
Searches for documents that contain the term database or the phrase data base and which do not contain the phrase log file anywhere the document.
   
Searching titles only The Site Map document lists the titles of all documentation topics that are available for one edition of the product. Use your browser Find function to search the Site Map for a key word.
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Last updated: Oct 16, 2009 11:03:03 AM EDT
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