You can search all topics in the help system, search an individual topic or topic collection, or create a search scope to search only a subset of the information. The Search Results view can display up to 500 results, sorted by relevance.
About this task
To toggle between the Contents view and the Search Results
view, click the Contents tab (
) or the Search
Results tab (
).
Procedure
- To search all of the topics that are included in the help system, enter a query in the Search field and click Go. You can also create a search scope to regularly search only a subset of the topics.
- To search a particular topic or a set of topics, select
them in the navigation tree and then click Search Topics (
) on the toolbar
of the Contents view. Select Search selected topic or Search
selected topic and all subtopics, enter your query in
the Search field, and click OK.
Results
The Search Results view displays the topics that match your search query. Select a topic from the list of search results to view it.
Topics with the same title and same abstract are recognized as similar pages. If one of the topics in the search results has similar pages, the total count of similar pages is displayed in green fonts at the bottom of that topic. You can also click on Similar Pages tag to expand and have all the similar pages displayed.
What to do next
- Click the Search results tab () to see the search
results view. By default, search results are not grouped.
- Click the Show result categories (
) on the toolbar to group
the search results.
- To display or hide the summary under each search result, click Show
result descriptions (
). - To enable or disable search highlighting, click Highlighting (
).