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Function documentation Searches in Documents Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You can only use the document search in documents in the Data Warehousing Workbench and in Web applications (format SAP BW 3.x).

Recommendation

We recommend that you use the new BI metadata search instead of the search in the generated documents for online documentation.

Prerequisites

If you want to be able to search in documents, set the TREX search machine to index the documents regularly.

To set up TREX in Customizing, choose SAP Customizing Implementation Guide  ® SAP NetWeaver  ® Business Intelligence  ® Connectivity of TREX and BI Documents ® Create a Search Server Relation.

To index in Customizing, choose SAP Customizing Implementation Guide ® SAP NetWeaver  ® Business Intelligence  ® BI Documents ® BI Metadata Search / Administer BI Documents  ® Indexing Documents Tab Page.

Restrictions on searches and indexes

·        You are able to search and index only in the languages belonging to the Latin 1 group and the double-byte languages, which are Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese.

·        Searching and indexing does not work for EBCDIC (Enhanced Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code) character sets, for example, for the AS/400 machines.

·        TREX can only be installed on the Windows NT and Windows 2000 platforms.

(AltaVista) Syntax in Full-Text Searches

You can use the AltaVista® syntax search to run full-text searches in the documents from any document class.

Function

Syntax

Information

Search by sentences

"..."

Type the particular sentence you want to find, in inverted commas, in the search field.

Include and exclude words from the search

+

Includes words in the search

-

Excludes words from the search

Example

For example, to search for a recipe for spaghetti sauce without meat, type in: +recipe +spaghetti sauce –meat.

Asterisk as a wildcard

*

If you put an asterisk at the end of your search term, you can extend the search to include all the words that start with your search term.

Permitted logical operators

AND

Finds all the documents that contain the words or sentence fragments that you specify.

OR

Finds all the documents that contain at least one of the search terms you have specified.

AND NOT

Excludes documents that you are not interested in.

Caution

An isolated NOT is not valid in the AltaVista syntax search.

NEAR

The context search looks for your search term within a radius of “search term plus 10 words”.

Example

For example, to find all the documents in which the words sport and football appear near one another, type:

Sport NEAR Football

( )

Use brackets to combine more than one Boolean operator.

 

 

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