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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Define Dependencies
For every consumer, you can define multiple dependencies. Each dependency is associated with a specific provider CI type. During the evaluation of the dependency signature for a provider CI, all dependencies that are associated with the provider's CI type are evaluated. Each dependency has a search expression from one or more configuration documents. If the search expression evaluates to True, there is a dependency (a consumer-provider relationship) between the consumer and the provider. Even if multiple dependencies between the same consumer and provider CI type exists and evaluate to True, only one relationship will be created.
An example of dependency syntax is:
<Deployable name="Websphere J2EE Application">
<Descriptor cit="j2eeapplication"/>
<Dependency name="J2EE Application to DB by JNDI" providerCiType="oracle" scope="default">
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Every dependency also has a scope. A scope is those consumers, out of all the consumers that follow the descriptor, that are relevant for this specific dependency. For more information, see Define the Descriptor of a Consumer.
