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Searching

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.

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 wildcards

You can use the following wildcard characters:

Searching with Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)

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:

Narrowing your search scope

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:

  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 radio button and click New. The New Search List window opens.
  3. In the List name field, provide a name for your new search list.
  4. In the Topics to search list, select the branches of the Navigation view that you want to include in your search. You can expand the branches to select the subcategories at the second level of heading.
  5. Click OK. Your new search list is now displayed in the Search only the following topics list. This option is automatically selected by default. You can click OK to apply this search list to your subsequent searches.
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 help browser, next to the Search scope link. The search list that you last used persists across sessions that you use the system.

Performing a quick search

From the Navigation view, use the following steps to perform a quick search:

  1. Select a topic in the Navigation view.
  2. Click Search Topics () on the toolbar of the navigation view to display the menu.
  3. Choose to either search the selected topic only by clicking Search this topic, or to search through the topic and all of its subtopics by clicking Search this topic and all subtopics.
  4. In the pop-up search dialog box, enter the query in the Search field and click OK to start the 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.

Notes:
  • The Search this topic dialog box closes automatically regardless of the search results.
  • The Search this topic and all subtopics dialog box does not close until you click Cancel or close the dialog window.

Displaying the search results

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.

  1. Enter a search string and click GO.
  2. Click the Search Results tab (). The search results display, grouped by none as default.
  3. Click Group search result () on the toolbar.
  4. Choose a grouping criterion in the menu.
    • GroupByNone - This is the default selection that displays search results with no grouping.
    • GroupByVersion - Displays search results grouped by version.
    • GroupByProdname - Displays search results grouped by product name.
    • GroupByPlatform - Displays search results grouped by platform.
    • Show result categories - Groups the search results according to their book names.

To add or remove the result descriptions in the view of search results, click Show result descriptions ().


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