Searching this site with the Eclipse search tool is a little different from searching the
Web with a service such as Google. Here are some guidelines for getting the most out of
a search on this site.
Setting the search scope
To quickly locate topics on a particular subject in the documentation, enter a query in
the
Search field. You can narrow the scope of your search by
selecting only the sections you are interested in. To set the search scope:
- Click Search scope next to the
Search field.
- Select the Search only the following topics option.
- Click New.
- Type a name in the List name text box.
- Select one or more guides (select the check boxes) from the Topics to
search list. For example, you can select the check boxes
corresponding to the CollabNet TeamForge 7.0 user and administration
guides.
- Click OK.
Once the search scope is set, you can enter your search query and click
GO. Your search is restricted only to the guides you
selected.
Search query guidelines
- Use AND to require the term on each side of the AND operator be present in the
topic.
Note: When you don't put anything between terms, the search tool assumes you
mean AND. Topics that contain every term in the query are listed in the search.
For example, if you enter database service, topics that contain both the term
database and the term service display. Topics that contain only the term service
or only the term database do not display.
- Use OR before optional terms. For example, if you enter database OR service, topics
that contain either the term database or the term service display.
- Use NOT before a term that you want to exclude from the search results. For example,
database NOT service displays topics that contain the term database, but do not
contain the term service.
- Use ? to match any single character. For example, plu? displays topics that contain
plug.
- Use * to match any set of characters, including an empty string. For example, plu*
displays topics that contain plug or plugin.
- Use double quotation marks to enclose a term that is to be treated as a phrase. For
example, "edit menu" displays topics with this entire term, not topics with only the
term edit or the term menu.
- Case is ignored. For example, database service displays database service, Database
Service, and DATABASE SERVICE.
- Punctuation acts as a term delimiter. For example, web.xml displays topics that
contain web.xml, web, and xml. To display only topics that contain web.xml, enclose
the term in double quotes.
- In a search query, if you enter create, topics that contain create, creates,
creating, and creation are displayed. To only see the term create, enclose the term
in double quotes.
- The following English words are ignored in search queries: a, and, are, as, at, be,
but, by, in, into, is, it, no, not, of, on, or, s, such, t, that, the, their, then,
there, these, they, to, was, will, with.