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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- Information retrieval (IR) expert parameters
- ir_asynchronous
- ir_autostop
- ir_boost_same_sequence
- ir_cluster_closeness
- ir_cluster_symbol
- ir_disable
- ir_language
- ir_languagefiles_path
- ir_max_clusters
- ir_max_relevant_answers
- ir_max_shared
- ir_min_cluster_members
- ir_minidf
- ir_opt_path
- ir_prefix
- ir_query_drop_off
- ir_sql_limit
- ir_term_drop_off
- ir_timelimit
Information Retrieval (IR) expert parameters: ir_autostop
Parameter
ir_autostop
Description
This parameter defines whether the Service Manager server stops an Information Retrieval (IR) search when a search term appears in more than 500 documents. When enabled, IR considers a term irrelevant and stops tracking it when the term appears in more than 500 documents. However, those 500 index entries remain in the system.
By allowing IR to automatically stop terms, the size of the IR files is limited, and the performance of IR improves. If you do not use the autostop feature then you should make sure that terms that are frequently used but that are of no interest in retrievals are placed in the IR stop file.
Valid if set from
Server's operating system command prompt
Initialization file (sm.ini)
Requires restart of the Service Manager server?
Yes
Default value
0
Possible values
0 (Disable)
1 (Enable)
Example usage
Command line: sm -httpPort:13080 -ir_autostop:1
Initialization file: ir_autostop:1
Related topics
System parameters
Enter a parameter in the sm.ini file
Information Retrieval (IR) expert parameters
