ESD Search HELP

ESD Search Help

Hints

Problem	Possible Solutions
The search found nothing when searching for a keyword.	Try an alternate spelling of the word. Try turning SUBSTRING MATCHING on and searching for part of the word.
The search found nothing for several keywords.	Try separating the words with or or a combination of and and or. Try eliminating a keyword and submitting the search again.
Other things to check
Do not include hyphens or quotation marks in the query box. Eg: A search for a "CAMAC crate controller" should be entered as this: Not this:

Notes

Search Engine Response to Keywords:
The search engine is not case-sensitive. That is, it will convert any text in upper-case to lower-case. For example, a search for the word "CAMAC" or "Camac" will actually result in a search for the word "camac." Since the search library does not index uppercase words or characters (see 3 below), this does not restrict the results of the search.
Also, keywords not seperated by "and" or "or" will automatically be searched for using the "and" parameter. That is, the search will look for documents with all of the specified keywords. For example, the search "octal discriminator" will actually search for "octal and discriminator."
Search Engine Response to Special Characters
The search engine is set to ignore any special characters such as quotation marks and hyphens. Do not use a hypen in a query. Enter any keywords normally hyphenated without the hyphen(s). For instance, to search for "linear fan-out" you would enter "linear fan out" in the query field.
Search Engine Index
The search engine works by searching through an index of keywords from the specification pages in the Prep Catalog. The indexer stores a given word (in lower case only) and the number of times it occurs in a specific Web page. The Prep Catalog indexer has been set to only index the FIRST page of all documents in the Prep Catalog.
Query responses
When the Equipment Catalog Search returns a query, the set of information presented to the browser should be as follows:
- The preferences that were set by the user for the search.
- The name of the document/module as a hypertext link.
- The path to that specific file.
- For each keyword:
  - The keyword (or variations) as it appears in the index (in quotation marks)
  - The number of times that word appears in the document
  - The keyword as the user typed it (in parentheses)

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