Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 Navigating the Portal

2 Your Portal Account

• Creating Your Own Portal Account
• Logging In to the Portal
• Logging Off the Portal
• Managing Your Portal Account
  • Editing Your User Profile
  • Setting Your Display Options
    • Selecting Your Portal Interface
    • Setting Your Portal Greeting
    • Specifying How Portal Documents Open
    • Setting Your My Page Refresh Rate
    • Setting Your Portlet Time Out Limit
  • Enabling Debug Mode
  • Editing Locale Settings
  • Setting Search Preferences
  • Viewing User Profiles
  • Changing Your Password
  • Setting Login Credentials for External Applications

3 About My Pages

• Personalizing Your View of the Portal with My Pages
• Creating a My Page with One Click
• Editing a Page in the Flyout Page Editor
• Editing a Page in the Standard Page Editor

4 About Communities

• Community Menus
• Subcommunities
• Community Knowledge Directory
• Viewing Communities
• Joining Communities
• Leaving Communities
• Recommending Communities

5 About the Portal Knowledge Directory

• Documents
• Document Display Options
• Subfolders and Related Objects
• Browsing Documents in the Portal Knowledge Directory
• Using Simple Submission to Submit or Upload Documents to the Portal Knowledge Directory

6 Searching for Documents or Objects

• Searching for Objects or Documents Using Advanced Search
  • Complex Property Search Example
• Searching Other Content, Portals, or Web Search Engines with Federated Search
• Viewing Search Results from a Banner Search
• Saving a Search
• Managing Your Saved Searches
• Refining Your Search Results

A Default Behavior of Search Service

• About the Different Types of Search
• Elements of Search Syntax
  • About Operator Modes
    • Bag of Words Mode
    • Query Operators Mode
    • Internet Style Mode
    • Search String Operators
  • Precedence and Parentheses
  • Punctuation
  • Case Sensitivity
  • Stemming
  • Wildcards
    • Important Information
  • Quoted Phrases
  • Thesaurus Expansion
    • Important Information
  • How Language Settings Apply to Search
    • Search Service Language Support
• Using Text Search Rules
• Search Examples
• How Search Results Are Ranked
  • How Term Frequency Factors in Relevance
  • About Metadata (Field) Weighting
  • How Phrases and Proximity Factor in Relevance
• About Basic Search Behavior
• About Advanced Search Behavior