How Can I Reduce the Number of Help Search Results?

When using the main search facility, you can restrict the number of search results in various ways:

• Enter a multiple-word string, rather than a single word
• Restrict your search to an exact search term, or to a particular variant of a word (see Use Double Quotation Marks)

  For example, to search for information about a particular configuration property, tab on a window or Form, menu option, pick action, or status attribute, enter the full name of that property, tab, option, action, or attribute exactly as it appears on the interface. Enclose the name within double quotations marks in the search field.

• Use string combinations (see Use Boolean Operators in your Searches)
• Use the search filter to restrict your searches to particular collections of topics, such as topics that appear in a particular guide, or topics that relate to pick actions or status attributes (see Restrict your Search to a Collection of Topics).

  Remember that some driver-related features, properties, status attributes, or pick actions might be common to multiple drivers or database items. Information about such features, properties, or attributes might therefore be documented in a topic that appears in a core guide, or a general or parent driver guide, rather than a driver-specific guide. Keep this in mind when restricting your searches to the topics that are in a particular guide - that guide might merely reference out to content that appears in another guide.

  After using the search filter to restrict your help searches to those that relate to a particular collection of topics, remember to reset the filter to 'All Files' to enable help-wide searches.

Depending on the type of information you are after, you might also want to consider using the following search strings:

"Frequently Asked Questions"

"Example Configuration" OR "Configuration Example"

"Troubleshooting"

The Glossary search supports partial word searches and automatically filters the list of Glossary terms as you enter your search term into the glossary search field (see Glossary). The Glossary search is restricted to text that appears in the list of Glossary terms, as opposed to text that appears in the definitions of Glossary terms. Do not enclose a Glossary search term in either single or double quotations marks (you can only use quotation marks with the main search facility). If required, you can include spaces and non-alphanumeric characters (such as parentheses) in the Glossary search field. For example, you might include a space at the start of the search string if you know that the word you are searching for is preceded by another word. Likewise, you might include a space followed by the open parenthesis symbol to restrict the entries to those Glossary terms that are appended by information in parentheses. The content in parentheses indicates either the context to which the term relates, or the expansion if Glossary term comprises an acronym.