Help Search Boolean Operators

Note: This topic is specific to searching the Online Help. For information on Searching PPM, see Searching Your Enterprise.

The Help Search supports specific Boolean operators you can use to refine your search results.

Searching for common words, such as 'workspace' or 'task' may return a large number of search results. To limit the list of results, use Boolean operators to refine your search. Examples of how to search with Boolean operators are shown in the table below:

Operator

Definition

Search Text

Results

(none)

Assumed "OR".

Searches for topics that include a match for either (any) term.

Note: Ignores case, but except when ranking results. Exact matches rank higher.

workspace dependency

Finds topics that contain one or both terms:

'workspaces' or 'dependency'

Note: Variants of search terms are also found but ranked lower. (Ex: Workspace, workspaces, Dependency, depend, dependencies.)

Searches for topics that include a match for either (any) term

Note: Ignores case, but except when ranking results. Exact matches rank higher.

workspace OR dependency

(same as above)

AND

Searches for topics that include a match for both terms

Note: Ignores case, but except when ranking results. Exact matches rank higher.

workspace AND dependency

Finds only topics that contain both terms:

'workspace' and 'dependency'

Note: Variants of search terms are also found but ranked lower. (Ex: Workspace, workspaces, Dependency, depend, dependencies.)

AND NOT

Searches for topics that include a match for the first term but does not include the second term

workspace AND NOTdependency

Finds topics that contain 'workspace' but do not contain 'dependency'.

Note: Variants of search terms are also found but ranked lower. (Ex: Workspace, workspaces, Dependency, depend, dependencies.)