| Conducting a Basic Search
To search for information within this site, type into the Search box a word or phrase that you would expect to find in the pages or properties (such as a document’s name or an author of interest to you). The search is across all fields and contents within the site; it does not include external documents or pages hosted on other servers linked to by this site.
Wildcard truncation – the query develop* will find all words beginning with the string ‘develop’ so the pages and documents would contain develop, develops, and development.
Phrase searching – you may search for a phrase by typing the words in consecutive order. For example, website development.
For an exact match, type the phrase within quotation marks. For example, "website development". To return a result, words in the phrase query must appear in the document in the order entered and with no intervening words.
Boolean Operators
Use the Boolean operators and, or, not to make more specific queries:
- Searching for website and development will identify pages and documents containing both ‘website’ and ‘development’ in any order.
- Searching for website or development will return more pages and documents because you have broadened your search to pages and documents that contain either ‘website’ or ‘development’.
- Searching for website not develop* will narrow the search to pages and documents containing the word ‘website’ but not the words ‘develop’, ‘develops’, ‘developed’, or ‘development’.
Conducting an Advanced Search
You can search by the following specific fields or by combinations of them: Title, Author, Keywords, Description, Date Created (year – eg, 2001), Section Area, and Date Last Modified.
Searching by Section Area will return pages and documents only from the specified section of the site.
Searching by Document Library (from the drop down Sections menu) will return PDF, Word, and similar documents, but not web pages.
Searching by Modified Date will return pages and documents based on their last modified date (anytime, today, last week, last month, last three months etc).
General Notes
Please note that:
- The search is not case sensitive.
- The search results are ordered by the number of occurrences of your search word or words.
- There is no facility for proximity searching.
- The search indexes web pages, Word documents, PDF files, and metadata tags (ie, title, author, keywords, description, date created (year only), date last modified, and section area).
- The usual ‘noise’ words (it, is, the, to) and single letters and numbers are filtered out.
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