Performing an advanced search

Use the advanced search portlet to:

Find content that contains all (or any) of the specified words.
Search across one or more selected page groups.
Restrict the search to a particular page, category, perspective, item type, or attribute.
If you have Oracle Text installed and enabled, you can also use advanced search to perform near, like, soundex, and fuzzy searches.

To perform an advanced search:

You can access the advanced search in several ways, such as:
- clicking the Advanced Search link on any page, basic search portlet, or customized search results page
- adding the Advanced Search portlet to a page.
Enter the words that you want to search for.
Choose a search operator, i.e. Find results that:
- contain all of the terms searches for content that contains all of the specified words. For example, if you enter weights aerobics in the Search For field, advanced search finds content that contains the words weights and aerobics.
- contain any of the terms searches for content that contains any of the specified words. For example, if you enter weights aerobics in the Search For field, advanced search finds content that contains the word weights or the word aerobics.
- contain these terms exactly searches for content that contains the specified words.
  
  Note: This operator is available only if Oracle Text is disabled.
- partially match all of the terms (%term%) expands a contains all of the terms search to include words that are like the specified words.
  
  Note: This operator is available only if Oracle Text is installed and enabled.
- partially match any of the terms (%term%) expands a contains any of the terms search to include words that are like the specified words.
  
  Note: This operator is available only if Oracle Text is installed and enabled.
- contain these terms located close to each other searches for two terms and returns a score based on the proximity of the specified words in the content. A higher score is returned for content with the specified words closer together and a lower score is returned for words farther apart.
  
  Note: This operator is available only if Oracle Text is installed and enabled.
- sounds like all of the terms expands a contains all of the terms search to include words that sound similar to the specified words. This allows comparison of words that are spelled differently, but sound alike in English.
  
  Note: This operator is available only if Oracle Text is installed and enabled.
- sounds like any of the terms expands a contains any of the terms search to include words that sound similar to the specified words. This allows comparison of words that are spelled differently, but sound alike in English.
  
  Note: This operator is available only if Oracle Text is installed and enabled.
- are spelled like all of the terms expands a contains all of the terms search to include words that are spelled similarly to the specified words. This is helpful for finding more accurate results when there are frequent misspellings in the content.
  
  Note: This operator is available only if Oracle Text is installed and enabled.
- are spelled like any of the terms expands a contains any of the terms search to include words that are spelled similarly to the specified words. This is helpful for finding more accurate results when there are frequent misspellings in the content.
  
  Note: This operator is available only if Oracle Text is installed and enabled.
In the Search In field select one or more Page Groups in which to search.

Note: If this field does not display, the "Edit Defaults" or "Customize" option Show page group selector is not enabled. If this is the case and providing that you do not restrict your search to one or more pages (see below), all page groups are searched.
Select the Page in which you want to search.

Select Include Sub-pages if you also want to search in pages beneath the page you specified.

Note: Searches can be restricted to one or more page groups or pages.
From the Perspective and Category lists, choose the perspectives and categories in which you want to search.

Notes:
- These lists show only the categories and perspectives relevant to the page group chosen in the Page Group list. If a single page group is selected, categories and perspectives of that page group and the Shared Objects page group are displayed. If multiple page groups are selected, only categories and perspectives in the Shared Objects page group are displayed.
- These lists may not be labeled Perspective and Category if the page group administrator has changed the labels in the Page Group Manager.
You can also restrict your search to specific attributes of pages and items. For example, if you know that the item you want to find contains the word aerobics in its title, or that it was added some time after 10-OCT-99, you can search those particular attributes. The advanced search feature searches for content that matches the search criteria specified at the top of the page and the Filter By search criteria.
1. Click More Attributes to specify additional attribute search criteria.
2. In the first field, click to select the attribute name, for example Title or Creation Date.
3. In the second field, choose the search operator, for example Contains All, Equals or Greater than.
  
  Note: Equals to, Greater than, and Less than search operators should be used only with numeric and date attributes.
4. In the third field, enter the words that you want to search for, for example aerobics or 10-OCT-99. You can also enter expressions in this field, including #USER# (for the current user) and #TODAY# (for today's date).
5. Click More Attributes if you want to specify search criteria for another attribute.
In the Match radio group, click:
- Match All Of The Following to search for content that matches all the attribute search criteria, for example content that contains that word aerobics in its title and was added after 10-OCT-99.
- Match Any Of The Following to search for content that matches any of the attribute search criteria, for example content that contains the word aerobics in its title or was added after 10-OCT-99.
Click Search.

The results are displayed on the default Search Results Page. For information on how to specify this page, see Setting up the search feature.

Notes

Searches are not case-sensitive.
To search for multiple words, separate each word with a space, for example:

weights aerobics
To search for a phrase, enclose the phrase in single quotes, for example:

'weight lifting'
The % character is interpreted literally, so do not include it as a wildcard. If Oracle Text is disabled and you enter 100% as your search term, search finds content that contains the text 100%, not 1000 or 10000. Wildcards are automatically added to the beginning and end of your search term, so searching for 100 will automatically return content that contains 1000 and 10000. If Oracle Text is installed and enabled, select the advanced search operator that performs partial matching, i.e. partially match all of the terms (%term%).
The Search Results page displays only content that you are authorized to view.
If Oracle Text is installed and enabled, search automatically uses the stem operator to search for words that have the same linguistic root as the specified word. For example, if you specified the word lift, the search feature returns content that contains the words lift, lifting, and lifted.