Enter the words that you want to search for.

2-8 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Portal ■ To search for multiple words, separate each word with a space, for example: weights aerobics. Content containing the word weights and the word aerobics is returned. ■ 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 enabled: – All text attributes see Section A.2.4, Base Searchable Attributes and the content of documents and URLs are searched. – If you enter multiple terms, all the terms must appear within the item metadata, or URL content, or document content. For example, if you enter weights aerobics, search results are returned only when both these terms are found in item metadata, URL content, or document content. If the term weights is found in URL content and the term aerobics is found in document content, this does not result in a match. – 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. – The character is interpreted literally, so do not use it as a wildcard. For example, if you enter the search term 100, content containing the text 100 is returned, not 100 without appended, 1000 or 10000. Instead, use the advanced search operator that performs partial matching, that is, partially match all of the terms term. ■ If Oracle Text is disabled: – Only metadata is searched, that is, item attributes Display Name, Description, Keywords, Author, page attributes Display Name, Description, Keywords, and categoryperspective attributes Display Name, Description. See also Section A.2.4, Base Searchable Attributes. – If you enter multiple terms, all the terms must appear within the same attribute. For example, if you enter weights aerobics, search results are returned only when both these terms are found in a single attribute, such as Description. – The character is interpreted literally, so do not use it as a wildcard. For example, if you enter the search term 100, content containing the text 100 is returned, not 100 without appended, 1000 or 10000. Wildcards are automatically added to the beginning and end of your search term, so searching for 100 automatically returns content that contains 1000 and 10000. ■ If you want more advanced search features, click the Advanced Search link if there is one.

2.2.1.1.1 Personalizing the Basic Search Portlet

If this portlet displays the Search In Page Groups field, you can restrict your search to one or more page groups. When this field is not available, all page groups are searched. You can choose whether the Search In Page Groups field appears on this portlet, by clicking the Personalize link. When you personalize the Basic Search portlet, you can also change the name displayed in the portlet header if you wish.