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
| Search for | Example | Results |
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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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Log preferences
You can set log preferences to control how Service Manager logs and displays messages.
To access log preferences in the Windows client, click Window > Preferences > Service Manager > Logs.
| Preference | Description | Default setting |
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| Use a specific file | If you want to use a specific log file, type the path and name of the file or browse to its location. | The default log file is C:\Users\<username>\ServiceManager\workspace\.metadata\.log. |
| Message level for console view | Choose the severity of messages that appear in the Console view. Select these logging options: None Debug, Info, Warning, and Error messages Info, Warning, and Error messages Warning and Error messages Error only messages |
None |
| Message level for log file | Choose the severity of messages that appear in the log file. Error only Debug, Info, Warning, and Error messages Info, Warning, and Error messages Warning and Error messages None |
Error only |
| Append exception trace to log option | Add the stack trace of the associated exception to the log. | False |
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