Search and Browse MOCI Help 

You can use Search and Browse MOCI to search for content and information. You can search Web sites, document collections, portal sites, Domino databases, file systems, and content sources that are available through HTTP, depending on the content sources that your administrator made available for search.

Type the string for which you want to search into the Search for: entry field, and click Search. Search and Browse MOCI displays the search results in a table. It also shows how long time the search took. For lists that are longer than a page you can move to other pages by clicking the arrows, or by selecting a page from the pulldown menu.

Click the Search Results tab in the title bar to view the list of your search results.

Click the Browse Documents tab in the title bar to browse available documents. If a taxonomy is available, you can browse the documents by navigating the taxonomy tree. If you type a search string in the Search for: field and click the Search icon, Search and Browse MOCI switches to the Search Results panel.

Search and Browse MOCI displays the search results in a table. The table lists the retrieved documents, together with related information. The documents can be of different types, for example, an HTML file, a spreadsheet, a PDF, or a compressed ZIP file. Search and Browse MOCI shows columns with the following information for each document:

• The document title, the URL where the document was found, and other related information, such as the author of the document, a description, and keywords.
• The relevance score. It reflects the relevance of the document to the given query on a scale of 0 (non relevant) to 100 (most relevant) percent. For more information about how the relevance score is calculated see the topic about Content Search in the InfoCenter.
• The date when the document was created.
• The search query string are shown highlighted listed documents.

Click the document name to view the document. This depends on the document type and on whether it can be viewed in the browser.

You can use tabs on secondary action bars above and below the search results to perform the following tasks:

1. Toggle between Sort by Relevance and Sort by Date.
2. Toggle between the options Show details and Hide details. Show details shows the subject and category information for each document. This is the default.

If you select Show details, Search and Browse MOCI displays the following additional information:

• Optionally, the following details for each document in the Title column, if they are available:
  • The author of the document.
  • A description of the document.
  • A summary of the document.
• The keywords for the document.
• The document subject as found in the HTML metatag under subject.
• The categories that apply to the listed document, if a taxonomy is available for the search collection that was searched. The categories are expressed by their full path, for example Root - IBM - HardWare.
• A Browse icon. Click it to browse all documents within the same category.
• A Search (magnifier lens) icon. Click it to repeat your search query, but apply it to this category only. You can use this option to limit the number of documents in your search result.
• Optionally, the following details for each document in the Title column, if they are available:
  • The document summary.

1. For more information about document summaries and categories see the topic about Content Search in the InfoCenter.
2. If a document is associated with more than one category, Search and Browse MOCI displays multiple lines, each with a category name, Browse icon and Magnifier Lens icon.

Search techniques

The Portal Search Engine allows the use of the following:

Plus ( + ) and minus ( - ) signs

The plus and minus signs do not join terms, but only operate on the term that follows them.

Quotation marks ( " )

Use quotes to combine words into search phrases, for example "IBM software".

Trailing wild cards

Use an asterisk ( * ) as a trailing wild card in your search string, for example softw* .

Using the plus and minus signs

For your query, type any words that describe what you are looking for. Put a plus sign ( + ) in front of the words that must be present in the returned documents. Put a minus sign ( - ) in front of the words that must not be present in the returned documents. When using signs, do not leave any space between the sign and the following word qualified by the sign. 

Plus sign examples

+thinkpad 

All documents retrieved must contain the word thinkpad. A single unsigned word, thinkpad, is also read this way, and is treated by the search engine as +thinkpad.

+thinkpad +drivers 

All documents retrieved must contain the word  thinkpad and the word drivers. 

+thinkpad drivers 

All documents retrieved must contain the word thinkpad, but only optionally the word drivers. 

Minus sign examples

+thinkpad -drivers 

All documents retrieved must contain the word thinkpad but must not contain the word drivers. 

Use spaces between signed terms in order to distinguish them from terms that contain a minus sign, such as e-business. Note that e-business is treated as "e-business" whereas e -business is treated as optionally e, and the word business should not be contained in the resulting documents. 

Note: Do not use only minus signed terms for your search; they will not produce a result list. The reason is that in this case the search terms are too vague to allow for a meaningful scoring of the found documents.

Advanced Search options

Click Advanced Search to display the advanced search options:

Search in:

Use this option to select in which document field your search string should occur. Select one of the fields from the pull down list: Title, Author, Description, Keywords, Updated Date, Subject.

Search for:

Type your search string for the specified field into this entry box.

Select document type:

Select the document type for which you want to search, for example PDF or HTML. If you do not want to restrict the search to documents of a certain type, leave the default setting All.

Click Add Condition to add more conditions to your search. If you specify a search string for the entire document, additional conditions restrict your search results to fewer documents. For example, you can specify the query human resources and add the restriction that the title contains the word benefits.

Click Hide Advanced Options to hide the advanced search options.

Editing and configuring Search and Browse MOCI result options

Click the edit icon to configure the search result options.

User Properties

Sort results by:

Select the default sort criteria for the search results. The results can be sorted either by relevance or by date. This setting can always be changed per session on the results page.

Sort order:

Select the default sort order for the search results. The results can be sorted either Ascending or Descending. This setting can always be changed per session on the results page.

Collapse results from the same site:

Select whether results from the same search site should be collapsed or expanded.

Query language:

Select the language in which you want Search and Browse MOCI to perform your search.

Results language:

Select the language of the documents which you want Search and Browse MOCI to show as results.

Display number of results per page:

Select the number of documents that you want to be displayed in the results page. The maximum number is 50.

Display number of documents per page

Select the number of documents that you want to be displayed in the browse page. The maximum number is 50.

Click Save to save your selection. Click Cancel to return to the main Search and Browse MOCI panel.

Administrator Properties

The settings here affect the concrete portlet for which you specify them. They affect all users who use that concrete portlet.

Show predefined results:

Select whether you want to show predefined results.

Allow category information:

Select whether you want category information to be available to users or not.

Return results from source:

Select the search source from which you want Search and Browse MOCI to return search results. For example, choices can include Web sites or databases. If you do not want to restrict the search to documents from a certain source, leave the default setting All.

Level of details from category information:

Select the level of detail to which you want to make category information available to users. You can select high, medium, or low. If you do not want to restrict the level of detail, set this option to All. If you do not any detail about category information to be available for users, leave the default setting none.

Click Save to save your selection. Click Cancel to return to the main Search and Browse MOCI panel.

Search and Browse MOCI fields

Search for:

The data entry field into which you type your search string.

1. Enter one or more words that describe the information that you are looking for.
2. Click Search.
3. After your search results are returned, you can view the displayed documents, or start a new or modified search.

Search and Browse MOCI icons

Browse icon

Click the Browse icon to browse documents in the taxonomy (if available) by navigating a taxonomy tree.

Magnifier Lens icon

Click the magnifier lens icon to repeat the same search query, but apply it to this category only.

Add Condition icon

Click this icon to add conditions to your search.