When you have an internet connection, you can add multiple
information centers and searchable web sites to a list for searching.
When you enter a search term, all of the locations are searched at
the same time from within your Installation
Manager local
help.
Procedure
- Click .
- Click the arrow to expand the Search scope description.
The Default search scope set contains the local help that was installed
with Installation
Manager.
- Click the current search scope set. Example: Default. The Select search scope sets window
opens.
- Click New to create a new search
scope set.
- Enter a name for the search scope set.
- Select the name of the search scope set.
- Click Edit. The Advanced
Settings window for the search scope set opens. The search
scope contains the local help installed with the product by default.
- You can disable the local help from the search scope
by clearing the Enable search engineoption.
- When the search engine is enabled, you can select the Search
only the following topicsoption and select the working
set of content to search only certain types of content.
Note: Installation
Manager is
not installed with all of the working set of content listed. For example, Installation
Manager does
not include documentation on "Managing and composing requirements."
If you select a working set of documentation that is not installed
with Installation
Manager,
your search yields no results.
- Click New to add a new search engine
type to the search scope.
Note: If you delete a search
engine from the tree pane, you are not asked for confirmation of the
deletion.
- Select a search engine type.
- Local help: The documentation installed with the product.
- Information center: You can add a URL from a remote information
center.
- Web search: You can add URL from a web search to include with
your Installation
Manager search
results.
- Click Finish.
- Enter the details of your search engine.
- Information center:
- Web search:
- Enter a name for the web search.
- Enter a description.
- Enter the URL template. You can capture the URL template by copying
the web query from the browser address field and replacing the search
word with {expression}. See example URLs below.
Repeat steps 8-11 to add additional search engines.
- Click OK to close the search scope
and click OK to close the Select
search scope sets window. The name of
your search scope is listed next to the Search scope arrow. Click
the arrow to expand the details of the search scope.
- Enter a search term in the search expression field and
click Go.
Results
Review your search returns. For web searches, the result is
always one return. You must click the link to view all of the results
of the search within the search pane.
- To view the search results in an external window, click the link
result and then click the Show in external window icon.
- To return to the search results from an external window, click
the Back icon.
Example
Information center example:
- You can add the Installation
Manager remote
information center to search the silent installation documentation
that is not installed with Installation
Manager by
adding the URL: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/install/v1r5/
Web
search examples:
- Installation
Manager technotes: http://www.ibm.com/search/csass/search?q={expression}&sn=spe&lang=en&filter=collection:stgsysx,dblue,ic,pubs,devrel1%20language:en&prod=N340276G72802P18
- developerWorks: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/search/searchResults.jsp?searchType=1&searchSite=dW&searchScope=dW&query={expression}&Search=Search
- Jazz.net: http://jazz.net/search?q={expression}&start=0