Search Results

This topic discusses working with the results of searches that you perform from within a project, rather than from the My Project Search or Project Search portlets.

The Search Results page displays a list of objects that match your search criteria, plus the search results in aggregated form.  Your search text appears as bold within the individual search results. To open an individual object in the individual search results list, click on its hypertext.

This topic discusses:

Filtering Search Results
Sorting Search Results
Performing Another Search
Search Result Icons
Search Tips

Filtering Search Results

You can filter your search by clicking on the aggregated results that appear above the individual search results list. For example, if 96 individual items appear in the search results list, and two of those items are of type Discussions, then a Discussions icon appears with a 2 next to it. You can click on the Discussions icon to view a list of only these two discussions.

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Sorting Search Results

You can sort your search results by choosing a sorting option from the Sort by drop-down list:

• Relevance: Sorts your results according to how closely they match your search query.

• Last Modified Date: Displays your results in the order in which they were most recently edited.

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Personal Project Items in Search Results

Search results contain only items from your own personal project, and do not contain items from other users' personal projects.

Performing Another Search

If your search did not return the desired items, you can perform an entirely new search, or narrow your search by searching only within the search results.

To perform a search from the Search Results page:

1. Choose the type of search from the Search drop-down list:

• New Search: Search within the entire system, ignoring the current search results.

• Search Within Results: Search within the current search results.

2. Enter a text string in the Search Text field.

3. Choose the desired language or All Languages from the Languages drop-down list.
   
   If the desired language does not appear in the Languages drop-down list, choose Show More to select from a larger list of languages.

4. Choose the desired category or All Categories from the Categories drop-down list.

5. Press Enter.

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Search Result Icons

The following icons appear on the Search Results page, depending on the results returned:

Note: When individual items from the Documents category appear within the search results, they are identified by icons that represent the file types of the documents. For example: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and so on.

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Search Tips

• If your search returned too many results, you can narrow your query by adding more specific search terms. For example, you can search for automobile mechanic or automobile manufacturer instead of simply automobile.
• If your search did not return enough results, you can broaden your search by typing the OR operator into your search text. For example, if a search for car returned too few results, you might type the search text: car OR automobile.
• If an expected result is not found, you may have overly limited the scope of your search. For example, if you searched in Selected Projects, you might try to widen your search to All Projects.

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