Setting web client preferences

You can define global web client preferences from the web configuration file (web.xml). You can find the web.xml file in the sm/WEB-INF folder of your application server installation. This file contains global preferences that you can change by editing the file with any text or XML editor. Any changes that you make to this file must conform to XML syntax requirements. You must have administrative access to the server operating system in order to set global web client preferences.

The settings that you define in the web.xml file determine the default client preferences for all web clients. However, users can override some of these preferences directly from the URL. For more information about which preferences users can set from the URL, see the comments in the web configuration file.

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)`