Narrowing your search scope (IEHS 3.4.1)

You can narrow your search scope to particular topics.

By default, when you search in the information center, all the topics shown in the Navigation view are searched. However, you can narrow your search scope to a particular set of topics by creating a search list and you can save the search list for future use.

You can create a search list by performing the following steps:

  1. Click the Search scope link next to the Search field. You will access to the Select Search Scope window.
  2. Select Search only the following topics and click New. You will see the New Search List window.
  3. In the List name field, provide a name for your new search list.
  4. In the Topics to search list, select the branches of the Navigation view that you want to include in your search. You can expand the branches to select the subcategories at the second level of heading.
  5. Click OK. Your new search list is now displayed in the Search only the following topics list. This option is automatically selected by default. You can click OK to apply this search list to your subsequent searches.
    Restriction: In some browsers (for example Konqueror and Safari), the save search lists function is not supported.

The current active search list is always displayed at the top of the browser, next to the Search scope link.

The search list that you last used persists each time when you use the system.