Personalizing the Basic Search Portlet

Interacting with Your Portal 2-9

2.2.1.2 Performing an Advanced Search

Use the Advanced Search portlet to: ■ Find portal content that contains all or any search words. ■ Search across one or multiple page groups. ■ Restrict the search to a particular page, category, perspective, item type, or various other attributes. ■ Oracle Text enabled Perform near, like, soundex, and fuzzy searches. ■ Oracle Text enabled Search across one or more selected perspectives. Figure 2–3 shows an example of the Advanced Search portlet: Figure 2–3 Advanced Search Portlet Oracle Text enabled You may access the advanced search in several ways, such as: ■ Clicking the Advanced Search link on a page or Basic Search portlet. ■ Displaying a page containing an Advanced Search portlet. To perform an advanced search:

1. Enter the words that you want to search for.

Try to be precise when entering your search terms as this will increase the accuracy of your search and avoid timeouts caused by searches taking too long.

2. For Find results that:, choose one of the search operators described in

Table 2–1 . 2-10 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Portal Table 2–1 Search Operators Search Operator Description Contain all of the terms Contains all Returns content containing all of the specified terms in any order, as entered or as part of a larger word. For example, if you enter the search terms weights aerobics, advanced search finds content that contains the words weights and aerobics. The behavior of the operators contain all of the terms and contain any of the terms in the following section depends on Oracle Text: ■ If Oracle Text is enabled, the stem operator is used to search for words that have the same linguistic root as the specified word. For example, if you specified the word lift, content containing the words lift, lifting, or lifted is returned. ■ If Oracle Text is disabled and you enter 100 as your search term, content containing the text 100 is returned, not 100 without appended, 1000 or 10000. Wildcards are automatically added to the beginning and end of 100 or your search term, so searching for 100 automatically returns content that contains 1000 and 10000. Contain any of the terms Contains any Returns content containing at least one of the specified words and may contain more than one, as entered or as part of a larger word. For example, if you enter the search terms weights aerobics, advanced search finds content that contains the word weights or aerobics. The behavior of the operators contain all of the terms and contain any of the terms depends on Oracle Text see preceding section. Contain these terms exactly Contains exactly Oracle Text disabled Returns content containing the search words exactly as specified in the Search field. For example, a search for weight will not return weights. Partially match all of the terms term Partially match all Oracle Text enabled Performs a partial match search of all of the words specified, for example, if you enter 100 it returns results such as 10000 and 1100BC. Partially match any of the terms term Partially match any Oracle Text enabled Performs a partial match search of any of the words specified, for example, if you enter age 100 it returns results such as 10000, 1100BC, and stage. Contain these terms located close to each other Terms near each other Oracle Text enabled 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. Sound like all of the terms Sound like all Oracle Text enabled Searches for content containing words that sound similar to all the specified terms. This allows comparison of words that are spelled differently, but sound alike in English such as Smith and Smythe. Sound like any of the terms Sound like any Oracle Text enabled Searches for content containing words that sound similar to any of the specified words. This allows comparison of words that are spelled differently, but sound alike in English such as Smith and Smythe. Are spelled like all of the terms Spelled like all Oracle Text enabled Searches for content containing words that are spelled similarly to all the specified words. This is helpful for finding more accurate results when there are frequent misspellings in the content such as there and their. Are spelled like any of the terms Spelled like any Oracle Text enabled Searches for content containing words that are spelled similarly to any of the specified words. This is helpful for finding more accurate results when there are frequent misspellings in the content such as there and their.