Narrowing and extending the search request

Searching with a search profile

  1. A search profile defines amongst others the search scope. Typically, you search with the Global, which includes all search scopes. But you can restrict your search, for example to documents from the file system or to persons.

  2. To search only within a specific search scope, select the appropriate search profile to the left.

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    Select the search profile
  3. Enter a search term.

  4. Start searching with the Enter key or click on Searchimages/download/thumbnails/50233879/worddav8edd96d80ce0873fbdc4673fa41712fa.png .

Searching for people (optional)

Prerequisites: The administrator has configured your system accordingly.

  1. To search only for persons, select the People search profile to the left.

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    Select a search profile
  2. Enter the data for the person that you want to find. This can for example be the position, the department, the email address or a phone number.

  3. Start search with the Enter key or click on Searchimages/download/thumbnails/50233879/worddav8edd96d80ce0873fbdc4673fa41712fa.png .

  4. Only persons that match this filter are displayed.

Performing a search with a filter (optional)

You can set a filter before searching. If you then perform the search, only hits that match this filter are displayed. You can also define more than on filter if the system is configured accordingly.

Prerequisites: The administrator has configured the filter option for at least one facet.

Searching with a search filter

  1. Enter the name of the filter, for example the project name.

  2. Filters corresponding to the input are displayed below the search field.

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    Select a search filter
  3. Click on the filter that you want to use.
    You can see that a filter is set.

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    Set a search filter
  4. Enter a search term.

  5. Start search with the Enter key or click on Searchimages/download/thumbnails/50233879/worddav8edd96d80ce0873fbdc4673fa41712fa.png .

Deleting a search filter

  • Below the search field, you see the defined search filters. Click on x for the filter to remove it.

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    Deleting a search filter
  • To delete all filters at once, click Remove all filters at the top.

Searching for synonyms and translations (optional)

When typing the search term, synonyms and translations can be displayed.

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Search for synonyms and translations

Prerequisites: The administrator has configured your system accordingly and In the settings, you have enabled that synonyms and translations are displayed: Einstellungen für die Suche .

  1. Start entering the search term.

  2. Below the search field and the proposals, synonyms and translations are displayed.

  3. Select the synonyms and translations that you want to include in the search.

  4. The search expression is adapted accordingly.


Performing a field-based search (optional)

You can search in specific fields.

  1. Click on the Advanced Search icon to the right of the search field:

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    Select advanced search
  2. In the Field-based search area enter search terms for one or more fields. It depends on the system configuration, which fields are displayed.

  3. Click on Apply & Search.
    From your entries, a search query is generated and performed.

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    Field-based search