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Can't find what you are looking for in a General Search?  Use a Topic search

You can narrow the focus of your search down by using topic searches - each of the TOC Topic categories, such as How-To-Articles has their own Topic specific search:

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1. Click the Top level TOC Item you think most applies to what you are looking for
2. Use the search box to search within just that topic - How To Articles Topic search for example will only bring back articles stored under How To
3. If you are not sure what to search for you can Browse the article names in a format that is easier to read, by expanding the articles list in the right pane.  This list if filtered for just the articles pertinent the selected topic.

Matched phrase search

Use double quotes to search for content that contains the phrase 'cheese one', or a phrase where 'cheese' and 'one' are the major words:

Note: KnowledgeSpace will ignore common words (stop words), including 'and', 'the', 'or', and more, even if they are included within double quotes.

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To search for content that contains one of the terms, 'chalk' or 'cheese', use the operator OR in capital letters:

AND search

To search for content that contains both the terms 'chalk' and 'cheese', use the operator AND in capital letters:

NOT search

To search for content that contains 'chalk' but NOT 'cheese', use the operator NOT in capital letters:

Excluded term search

To search for content that contains 'chalk' and 'butter' but not 'cheese':

Grouping search

To search for content that must contain 'chalk' but can contain either 'cheese' or 'butter', use brackets to group the search terms:

Title search

To search for content with 'chalk' in its title, where title is the field keyword.

Wildcard searches

Single character

To search for 'butter' or 'batter' you can use a question mark as a wildcard:

To search for 'chicken' or 'chickpea' you can use an asterisk as a wildcard:

You can use wildcards anywhere within a word, even at the very beginning:

Multiple characters

To search for 'chick' or 'chickpea':

You can also combine search characters to get the exact word. For example the search term below will return 'chick' but not 'chickpea':

Case sensitivity in wildcard searches

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For example, the following search will return 'Octagon blog post':

The following search is not valid:

Range search

Use the operator 'TO', in capital letters, to search for names that fall alphabetically within a specified range:

Note: You cannot use the AND keyword inside this statement.

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To search for octagon, if unsure about spelling:

Combined search

You can also combine various search terms together:

Searching for labels

Use the 'labelText:' prefix to search specifically for content that has a specific label. The table below gives examples of search terms that you can enter into KnowledgeSpace's search box, and the search results that you can expect.

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