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
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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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Mapping Conventions
To ensure that the Generic Adapter is able to process federation requests, the following preconditions must be met:
- Class Population Requirement. All nodes in the ResultTreeNodes (RTNs) results returned by the federation connector must be valid classes from the adapter-defined class model. For example, if the returned RTN is amComputer with a child of amPortfolio, both amComputer and amPortfolio must be classes defined in the ClassModel object returned by the adapter-specific ClassModelConnector.
- Relationship Population Requirement. A parent-child relationship in the RTN results returned by the federation connector implies a valid link between the parent RTN node and the child RTN node. For example, if the returned RTN is amComputer with a child of amPortfolio, then a relantionship/link between amComputer and amPortfolio must exist and must be defined as a ValidRelation in the ClassModel object returned by the adapter-specific ClassModelConnector.
