Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

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Knowledge-Centered Support (KCS)

Knowledge-Centered Support (KCS) is a knowledge management strategy for service and support organizations. It defines a set of principles and practices that enable organizations to improve service levels for customers, gain operational efficiencies, as well as increase the organization's value to their company.

KCS practices involve collaborating, sharing, using and improving knowledge. KCS practices encourage knowledge creation and improvement by all members of the support team and promote effective knowledge searches by maintaining up-to-date knowledgebases. The out-of-box Knowledge Management system enables all internal and external users to provide user feedback on the knowledge documents. This helps to identify useful articles and to mark other articles for revision, which contributes to the overall quality and value of the information in the knowledgebase.

The goal of KCS is to solve a problem once and use the solution often. KCS-based systems take advantage of the knowledge available in all phases of the service desk operations by making the knowledge captured by the customer support process available for reuse throughout the support organization.

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