Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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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. |
Using Boolean Operators
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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- Incident Management overview
- What is an incident?
- Affected services option for Incidents and Changes
- Creating an incident
- Posting outages
- Incident Management contract management records
- Incident Management and service level agreements
- Parent and child incidents
- Major incident
- Incident access control
- Incident Updates: Incident Diagnosis Details
- Alerts and escalation
- Field-Level Controls
- Incident record data model
- Incident and Service Request Separation
Parent and child incidents
The parent-child relationship allows you to link multiple incidents that are related in a certain way. For example, a network outage results in multiple similar incidents from different users. You can link these incidents under a parent incident. In this way, the activities that occur to the parent incident are automatically recorded under the Activities section in all child incidents and related Service Desk interactions (if there are any). In addition, you can also configure if the child incidents are automatically closed when the parent incident is closed.
Related topics
Set a parent incident
Set a child incident
Configure Incident Management settings
