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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- Service life cycle management
- Visual design of CI relationships
- Publish services in Service Catalog
- Requesting services
- Service-oriented SLAs
- Service support
- Service life cycle status
- Subscriptions
- Choosing a subscription mode
- Defining the change category to use when adding or canceling subscriptions
- Viewing subscriptions on the contacts and department records
- Notifying service subscribers of a planned outage
- Subscriptions and service level agreements
- View my subscriptions
- View subscriptions for the departments you manage
- Add a subscription
- Add a subscription for the departments you manage
- Subscribe to a service you canceled previously
- Cancel a subscription
- Cancel a subscription for the departments you manage
- Define which services are available for subscription
- Define a department requestor for subscriptions
- View the subscribers for a subscription
- Administer subscriptions
- View related changes for a subscription
Choosing a subscription mode
An administrator can choose between two subscription modes in the Configuration Management (CM) environment record. The selected mode determines whether a user subscribes to a Configuration Item (CI) by using Change Management or by using Service Catalog.
If the mode is set to Change Management, a Self-Service user can subscribe and cancel subscriptions from the subscription list view on the Self-Service page. If the mode is set to Service Catalog, a user can only subscribe through Service Catalog, although canceling a subscription can still be performed within the subscription record. The default mode is Service Catalog.
Choose a subscription mode
Applies to User roles: System Administrator
You can choose a subscription mode on the Configuration Management environment record to control whether a user subscribes to a configuration item (CI) by using Change Management or by using Service Catalog.
To choose a subscription mode, follow these steps:
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Click Configuration Management > Administration > Environment. The Configuration Management Environment Profile record opens.
- In the Subscriptions section, select Service Catalog or Change Management for the Subscription Request Mode.
- Click Save.
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Click OK. Service Manager updates the Configuration Management environment record.
