How to use Help Search

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jaybird
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How to use Help Search

Post by jaybird »

New to Flare 5. Anyone have tips for using the Flare Help Search feature more effectively? For instance, if I'm looking for a two-word phrase like copy style and I only want to find Help topics that have the two words used together. I've tried entering copy+style and "copy style" but I still get a list of every topic that has either copy or style.

Thanks!
NorthEast
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Re: How to use Help Search

Post by NorthEast »

See this in the knowledgebase...
http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/Content/Fl ... Search.htm

The search copy+style will find topics containing both copy and style (in any order).
"Copy style" will only show topics with that exact phrase - I don't get any results in the Flare help for that search.
jaybird
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Re: How to use Help Search

Post by jaybird »

Thank you! Two minutes after I posted that I thought "Hmmm...maybe I should have checked the knowledgebase".
wbrisett
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Re: How to use Help Search

Post by wbrisett »

I actually place this KB article into most of my projects (Madcap said I could) so customers know how to use the search feature more effectively.
Richard Ferrell
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Re: How to use Help Search

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That kb article was written by a fellow user, it always helps when the users of the software write the kb articles. :)
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