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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Queries in global lists
Because Service Manager often builds global lists at startup, the total number of global lists you have determines how long your system spends generating these lists. If you have custom global lists, you should verify that they are still in use and if not clear the Build List at Startup option. Reducing the number of global lists you build reduces the number of queries your system has to run and will result in improved login performance.
In addition, you should verify that your custom global list query returns a useful number of results. The more items there are in a global list the more memory a Service Manager client requires to display them. Consider tuning your global list queries to return a manageable number of results to improve your system's performance.
Related concepts
Queries in background processes
Queries in links
Queries in Format Control"
