Searching

To search topics in the information center, enter a query in the Search field and click Go. The Search Results view on the left hand side displays the top 500 ranked results. Select a search result to display that topic in the right hand side of the help system. The words from your query are highlighted in the displayed topic.

To toggle between the navigation tree and the search results list, click the Contents tab (Contents) or the Search Results tab (Search Results) at the bottom of the left hand side of the interface

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 wild cards

You can use wild cards and Boolean operators to help you enhance you searching as follows:
Search criteria Search result
* any string
? any single character
"" exact phrase
AND, OR, NOT

boolean operators
xx AND yy - hits that contain both xx, yy
xx OR yy - hits that contain either xx, yy
NOT xx - hits that do not contain xx

Narrowing your search scope

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. Select 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 the New push 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 Web 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 Web browser, next to the Search scope link.