Extending, Refining, or Reducing Search Results
Use
It is possible that following a search for specifications, the search result, that is the
set of hits, does not contain the specifications you are searching for or it contains too many specifications. This procedure describes how you extend, refine, or reduce the set of hits.Prerequisites
You have run a
specification search, executed a query, or loaded a set of hits and are located on the hit list screen.Procedure
if you want to extend the set of hits.
if you want to refine the set of hits.
if you want to reduce the set of hits.A screen appears where you can extend, refine, or reduce the set of hits by entering other search criteria.
Instead of entering search criteria you can also execute a query or load a set of hits. Any additional search criteria you enter will not then be taken into account.
Result
Extended Set of Hits
In addition
to the specifications already in the hit list, the set of hits contains the specifications that fulfill the search criteria entered in the second step.Refined Set of Hits
The set of hits now contains only the specifications that also fulfill the search criteria entered in the second step.
Reduced Sets of Hits
The specifications that fulfill the search criteria entered in the second step were removed from the set of hits.
See also:
Unifying, Forming the Intersection of, or Reducing Sets of Hits Reducing Sets of Hits Manually