Searching in the information center
To search topics in the information center, enter a query in the Search field. The Contents pane displays the top 500 ranked results. Click on a search result to view the topic. The words from your query are highlighted.To toggle between the navigation tree and the search results list, click the Contents tab (
) or the Search Results tab (
) at the bottom on the Contents pane.
Searches are not case-sensitive.
Searching for exact words or phrases
You can identify a search phrase as an exact string by enclosing it in double quotation marks. For example, "log file" searches for the string log file, not the separate words log and file. Without the quotation marks, the search term is interpreted as log AND file.
In English and German only, the search engine stems other forms of a single search word. For example, a search for the word challenge, will also find the word challenging. Use double quotation marks when you do not want stemming.
Searching with wildcards
Use the following wildcard characters:
- * Asterisk - for multiple unknown or variable characters in the term. For example, the search term par* returns partly, participate, partial, and other words beginning with par.
- ? Question mark - for a single unknown or variable character. For example, the search term par? returns part but not partial or partly.
Searching with Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)
You can insert the binary operators: AND, OR, and NOT in your search term. For example:
- database AND "log file" To narrow your search to include topics that must contain both of the terms database and " log file" anywhere in the document.
- database OR "log file" To widen your search for topics that contain either database or log file anywhere the document
- database NOT "log file" Searches for documents that contain database without log file anywhere the document.
- database OR "data base" NOT "log file" Searches for documents that contain database without log file anywhere the document.
Narrowing your search scope
By default, all topics shown in the Contents pane are searched. However, you can narrow your searches to a particular set of topics, called a search list and save search lists to use again later.
To create a search list:
- Click the Advanced search: link next to the Search field. The Advanced search window opens.
- Select Search only the following topics and click the New push button. The Advanced Search window opens.
- In the Set of books to be searched list, select the navigation categories that you want to include in your search. You can expand categories to select only certain subcategories.
- In the Search expression text field, enter the search term and click OK.
For more information about the search function, go to the Apache Jakarta Web site at
