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FactoryLogix online documentation has both basic and advanced search options to help you find the information you need quickly. To make the most out of your search experience, you can use special words and symbols in the Search box to help focus your search and find the exact content you're looking for.

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  • Search from any page of the documentation using the magnifying glass magnifying_glass_scroll_viewport.pngImage Modified in the upper-right corner of the window. 

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Enter a forward slashon your keyboard to display the Search box in the upper-right corner of the window or click in the Search box.

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Scroll through the search results and select a topic to view.

Search for an exact match

  • Use double quotes around a search term/keyword to find a specific word or phrase.
    Example: Entering "create a batch" inside double quotation marks will search for topics that contain the phrase create a batch or a phrase where create and batch are the major words.

Note

Common words (sometimes referred to as stop words) such as and, the, or, and it are ignored in all searches—even if they are included within double quotes. For example, searching for "the IT manager" will only return topics containing manager, because the and it (or in this case IT) are stop words. Symbols such as hyphens or underscores are ignored in searches—even if they are included within double quotes. For example, if you search for "non-PCB", the search results will display all topics containing non and PCB.

Expand search results with wildcards

Note

Leading wildcards are not supported. For example, searching for *nalytics will not return analytics. As a workaround, you can use a Regular Expression. For example, you can't search for *hum* or ?hum*, but you can search for /.*hum.*/ and find things like human and thumbnail. (For general information about using Regular Expressions, see the RegexOne Introduction.)

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Wildcard

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Description

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Example

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Single character

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Use a question mark (?) to replace a single character in your search.

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conf?rm finds topics containing conformance, conform, conformingconfirm,  and so on.

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Multiple characters

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Use an asterisk (*) at the end of your word to replace multiple characters.

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print* finds topics containing printer, printing, prints, and so on.

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Multiple wildcards

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Use asterisks (*) to add more than one multiple-character wildcard.

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r*c* finds topics containing reference, resources, receiving, recent, record, and so on.

Exclude words from a search

  • Use NOT or the minus symbol (-) to exclude words from your search.
    Example: If you enter process NOT part, only topics containing the word process but not the word part are returned.

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Operator

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Description

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Example

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NOT

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Use NOT (in capital letters) to exclude a word from your search.

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process NOT part finds content containing process but not part.

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Minus symbol -

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Put a minus symbol (-) in front of words you want to leave out.

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process part -revision finds content containing process and part but not revision.

Combine search terms

  • You can also combine search terms and operators.
    Example: If you enter part OR assembly AND number, topics containing the word part or assembly and the word number are returned.

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Operator

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Description

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Example

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OR

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Use OR (in capital letters) to search for content that contains one of the terms.

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process OR part finds content containing either process or part.

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AND

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Use AND (in capital letters) to search for content that contains more than one search term.

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process AND part finds content containing both process and part.

Search for nearby words (proximity search)

  • Use a tilde symbol (~) followed by a number to find two words within a certain number of words of each other.

    Example: Entering "vendor number"~1 will return vendor part number, but not vendor-supplied part number.

    The following search doesn't work because you can't search for two words within zero words of each other: "part number"~0. If you think two words are next to each other, use the exact search, for example "part number"

Search within an alphabetical range

  • Use TO (in capital letters) to search for words that fall alphabetically within a specified range. Enclose the words to search for in square brackets [ ].
    Example: Enter [assembly TO BOM] to return topics containing words that fall alphabetically between assembly and BOM.

Note

You can't use the AND keyword inside a TO statement.

Search for words spelled similarly (fuzzy search)

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Search Ranking

Search results are ranked by weight, especially in topic titles. Topics containing the exact search term in the title are ranked highest in the search results page and are displayed before topics that contain the exact search term only in the topic content.

Fuzzy search

A “fuzzy” search displays topics that contain words that are similar to the search term you enter. These “fuzzy” search results display in the search results after exact matches.

OR search

If you enter more than one search term, all topics containing any of the terms are displayed (search results will also include topics that contain only one of the entered search terms).

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Important

The following search features are not supported:

  • Quoted search. Search ignores any quotes (““) and treats any quoted phrase as separate words. Multi-word search queries are generally not supported.

  • Partial search. When entering a search term, topics that contain that term as a substring do not display - only exact matches are displayed in the search results. For example, a topic containing the term “rescheduled” doesn’t up when you enter a search for the word “schedule”).