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Searching the Help

To search for specific information across all help topics:

  1. In the navigation pane of the Help window, click the Search tab.
  2. Type in a search string (see Search Variables).
  3. Click the Search button. The order of the resulting list of topics is based on a ranking order, with highest ranking topics at the top of the list.
Search Variables
Description Variable Example
Search for one or more words. When you enter a group of words into the search field, "or" is inferred.   node interface
Search for a phrase.

" "
(wrap a text string in quotes)

 

"navigation pane"

Search for "either of" or "any of" specific strings.

OR (case insensitive)

| (pipe symbol)

node or interface or address

"node name"|"interface status"

Search for two or more specific strings.

AND (case insensitive)

+ (plus symbol)

& (ampersand)

node And interface And address

"node name"+address

"node name"&"interface"

Search for all topics that do not contain something.

NOT (case insensitive)

! (exclamation mark)

not node

! node

Search for all topics that contain one string and do not contain another. ^ (carat symbol) node ^ interface
Combinations of the above. ( ) parenthesis

node and (name or status)

node or vlan (!address)

Note: Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "templates" followed by a search for "Templates" would return the same number of help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.