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
| Search for | Operator | Example |
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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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IR Expert
An intelligent, concept-based information retrieval engine that searches records for similar or related information, based on a simple, natural language query.
IR Expert creates its queries based on the IR keys in the dbdict and the terms you specify, after it performs lexical analysis, stemming, stop words, and spelling correction on them.
For example, instead of relying on the exact-match keywords that QBE queries use to select incidents from the Incident Management database, you can search the description of an incident for specific terms using an IR query.
Related terms
Database dictionary (Dbdict)
Incident Management
IR key
IR query
Lexical analysis
Query–by–Example (QBE)
Stemming
Stop words
