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 ranked results. Select a search result to display that topic. The words from your query are highlighted in the displayed topic. The result page will scroll automatically to make the first occurrence visible.
To switch on and off the highlight effect on the query
word, click Highlight Switch (
).
Exception: When you use the quick search method to search only a single topic, the search highlighting is always on and you cannot use the Highlight Switch to switch on and off the highlighting.
To toggle between the Contents view and the Search Results view, click
the Contents tab () or the Search
Results tab (
).
Searches are not case-sensitive.
The Search Results view displays topics that meet the search query regardless of any filters that you might have set.
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 that 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.
Restriction: Wildcards can only be used in the middle or end of search strings. They are not supported when they appear at the beginning of a search string, such as *XXXX or ?XXXX.
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.
The search list that is currently active is always shown at the top of the browser, next to the Search scope link. The search list that you last used persists each time that you use the system.
If the topics in the documentation set have been tagged with criteria, you can display the search results by platform, product name, or version. Click Group Type on the top of the Search Results view, and the search results are listed according to the selected criteria. If you click the group type None, the search results are ungrouped.
Click Show/Hide detail to change between showing or hiding detailed information of the topics in the search results.
Use the Quick search choices of the Quick menu in the Contents view to do a quick search on one or more topics:
If you search only in the topic and your search terms are matched, the topic will be displayed automatically. If there are no matches in the topic, a dialog displays Nothing found, which you can dismiss using its OK button.
If you search a topic and its subtopics and there are matches to your query, 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.
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