To search topics in the information center, enter a query in the Search field and click GO.
The Search Results view displays the top 500 results sorted by relevance. You can select a search result to display that topic. The words from your query are highlighted in the displayed topic. The result page will automatically scroll to make the first occurrence visible.
Highlight function is available after searching. To enable or disable
highlighting on the query word, click Highlight Search Terms ().
To toggle between the navigation tree and the search results list,
click the Contents tab () or the Search
Results tab (
) at the bottom of the left-hand side of the interface.
The Search Results view displays the topics that meet the search query
regardless of any filters that you might have set.
Searches are not case-sensitive.
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.
You can use the following wildcard characters:
You can insert the binary operators, including AND, OR, and NOT, in your search string to make your search more efficient by narrowing or widening your search scope. For example:
By default, when you search in the information center, all the topics shown in the Navigation view are searched. However, you can narrow your search scope to a particular set of topics by creating a search list and you can save the search list for future use.
To create a search list:
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.
From the Navigation view, use the following steps to perform a quick search:
If you choose Search this topic, and your search strings are matched, the topic is displayed automatically. If there are no matches in the topic, a Nothing found message displays.
If you choose Search this topic and all subtopics, and your search terms are matched, the Search Results view displays the top 500 ranked results. You can select a search result to display that topic. The words from your query are highlighted in the displayed topic. If there are no matches in the topic, a Nothing found message displays.
If the topics in the documentation set are tagged with different criteria, such as version, product name, platform, or category, you can group the topics in the search results accordingly.
To add or remove the result descriptions in the view of search
results, click Show result descriptions ().