Search web, local help, and remote information centers together

When you have an internet connection, you can add multiple information centers and searchable web sites to a list for searching. When you enter a search term, all of the locations are searched at the same time from within your Installation Manager local help.


Procedure

  1. Click Help > Search.

  2. Click the arrow to expand the Search scope description. The Default search scope set contains the local help that was installed with Installation Manager.

  3. Click the current search scope set. Example: Default. The Select search scope sets window opens.

  4. Click New to create a new search scope set.

  5. Enter a name for the search scope set.

  6. Select the name of the search scope set.

  7. Click Edit. The Advanced Settings window for the search scope set opens. The search scope contains the local help installed with the product by default.

    1. You can disable the local help from the search scope by clearing the Enable search engineoption.
    2. When the search engine is enabled, you can select the Search only the following topicsoption and select the working set of content to search only certain types of content.

      Installation Manager is not installed with all of the working set of content listed. For example, Installation Manager does not include documentation on "Managing and composing requirements." If you select a working set of documentation that is not installed with Installation Manager, your search yields no results.

  8. Click New to add a new search engine type to the search scope.

    If you delete a search engine from the tree pane, you are not asked for confirmation of the deletion.

  9. Select a search engine type.

    • Local help: The documentation installed with the product.
    • Information center: You can add a URL from a remote information center.
    • Web search: You can add URL from a web search to include with your Installation Manager search results.

  10. Click Finish.

  11. Enter the details of your search engine.

    • Information center:

      • Enter a name for the information center.
      • Enter a description.
      • Enter the URL and, if applicable, select the plugins to include in your help search. See example URLs below.

        You must remove the "index.jsp" text from information center URLs.

    • Web search:

      • Enter a name for the web search.
      • Enter a description.
      • Enter the URL template. You can capture the URL template by copying the web query from the browser address field and replacing the search word with {expression}. See example URLs below.

    Repeat steps 8-11 to add additional search engines.

  12. Click OK to close the search scope and click OK to close the Select search scope sets window. The name of your search scope is listed next to the Search scope arrow. Click the arrow to expand the details of the search scope.

  13. Enter a search term in the search expression field and click Go.


Results

Review your search returns. For web searches, the result is always one return. You must click the link to view all of the results of the search within the search pane.


Example

Information center example:

Web search examples:

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