Search Help

Search basics

By default a search looks into topic titles, topic texts and form fields in the current web. Extend your search to "all public webs" to get more results.

Search this site as you are used to with Google:

• Type the words you want to find
• Multiple words are combined: intranet web service returns all pages that have the three words anywhere in the page
• Use double quotes for literal search (also known as phrase search) to search the exact words in that exact order, for example "web service"
• Exclude words using minus signs, for instance: soap -shampoo (use double quotes if you want to search for a leading minus sign, like "-nowarn")

TIP: to search for all topics that contain "SOAP", "WSDL", a literal "web service", but not "shampoo", write: soap wsdl "web service" -shampoo

Troubleshooting

"My search returned less than I expected"

Perhaps your search words are listed in the stop word list and excluded from the results. Show stop wordsHide stop words a, all, am, an, and, any, as, at, b, be, by, c, d, e, for, from, g, h, how, i, i'm, i.e., in, is, isn't, it, it's, its, j, k, l, m, n, o, of, on, or, p, q, r, s, t, that, that's, the, this, to, u, v, w, was, wasn't, what, what's, when, where, who, who's, will, with, x, y, z

If you want to search for a word in the stop word list, prefix the word with a plus sign

Definitions

Some explanations of used terms.

Creating your own search

Go to advanced search to see your search query translated to a SEARCH macro. It will look somewhat like this:

%SEARCH{
   "\"stuff I've read\""
   type="word"
   scope="all"
   order="editby"
   reverse="on"
   limit="10"
   zeroresults="on"
}%

You can copy and paste this text to any topic to get show search results on that page.

More search options

• SEARCH macro - inline search, shows a search result embedded in a topic
• Formatted search - formatting of inline search
• Query search - extend the search to form fields, parent relationships and file attachment information (but not the attached files themselves)
• Regular expression search
• KinoSearchPlugin - search within attachments