The help search is a full-text search that supports exact
phrases, word stems (in English and German), wildcard characters,
and Boolean operators. You can control whether search results are
highlighted and how they are displayed in the Search Results list.
About this task
Note: Search strings are not case-sensitive.
The search results are the same for open, Open, OPEN,
and OpEn.
Procedure
In the Search field, enter a term
and click Go.
The Search Results tab
opens and displays the results for the search, which are sorted by
relevance.
Optional: In the Search Results tab,
you can customize the display of your results:
To hide or show the result descriptions, click the Show Result Descriptions icon.
To sort the results by their content type instead of relevance,
click the Show Result Categories icon.
Sorting options vary by product.
Click a search result to open the corresponding topic. The help topic opens and the search terms you entered
are highlighted. To add or remove term highlighting, click the Highlight Search Terms icon.
To return to the Contents view, click
the Contents tab.
What to do next
If your initial search produces too many or too few hits
to find what you are looking for, refine your search by using these
techniques:
If you are confident that the information for which you are searching
is in a particular branch of the navigation tree, select the parent
topic for the section, click Search Topics and select Search this
topic and all subtopics.
Use a longer, more specific phrase to make more relevant topics
rank higher in the results list.
Use a wildcard character:
Asterisk (*): For multiple unknown or variable
characters in the term. For example, the search term par* returns partly, participate, partial,
and other words that begin with par.
Question mark (?): For a single unknown,
variable character, or zero character in the term. For example, the
search term par? returns part and park,
but not partial or partly.
Enclose a phrase in quotation marks ("") to find only those
topics that contain that exact phrase. The case does not affect the
search results even when the phrase is enclosed in quotation marks.
English
and German only: When you enclose a term in quotation marks, word-stem
results are not included. For example, without quotation marks, the
search term challenge includes results for challenging and challenged.
Use a Boolean operator:
AND: Narrows the search to include topics
that contain both terms. For example, if you enterdatabase
AND "log file", the search results include topics that contain
both the term database and the phrase log file.
OR: Widens the search to include topics
that contain either one term or another. For example, if you enter database
OR "log file" , the search results include topics that contain
either database or log file.
NOT: Searches for topics that do not contain
a term or phrase. For example, if you enter database NOT "log
file", the search results include topics that contain database,
but do not contain log file.
OR...NOT: Searches for topics that contain
one of two terms, but do not contain another term. For example, if
you enter database OR "data base" NOT "log file",
the search results include topics that contain either database or data
base, but do not contain log file.
If your help system applies to multiple product versions, you
can search for a fix pack version in the format V<version> to
see a list of changes that apply to that fix pack. Example: V1.0.0.1
Narrowing help searches to a subset of topics
If you consistently use a particular section of the help,
you can search that subset of help topics rather than the entire help
system. You might also search a subset of topics if you are confident
that the information you need is in a particular section.
About this task
By default, when you search in the product help, all the
topics in the contents view are searched.
Procedure
To search a collection of topics:
Restriction: In some browsers, such as Konqueror and Safari,
the search scope function is not supported so the search scope cannot
be saved.
By the Search field, click Scope.
Select Search only the following topics and
click New.
In the List name field, enter
a name for your search scope. Example: Installing
content
In the Topics section, select
the help content to include in your search. To select subtopics, expand
the branches. Example: Installing
Click OK. Your new
search list is displayed in the Search only the following
topics list. Click OK to save this
search scope. The name of your search scope shows
next to the Scope link.
In Search field, enter your search
term and click Go. The topics
that you selected in the search scope are searched for the term you
entered.
To search a topic and its subtopics:
In the Contents Contents
view, select a topic.
Click the Search topics icon,
and then select Search selected topic and all subtopics.
In the Search Expression field,
enter a search term and click OK. The Search Results tab opens and shows the results of
your search.
To search a single topic:
In the Contents Contents
view, select a topic.
Click the Search topics icon,
and then select Search selected topic.
In the Search Expression field,
enter a search term and click OK. The Search Results tab opens and shows the results of
your search.