Full Text Searching

Full Text searching

Figure 3: Search feature

Simcenter Amesim's Help provides a powerful full text search engine. To search for certain words or text, click the Search button, or the Search entry in the table of contents. Then enter the text you want to look for and press Enter or click the Search button. The search is not case sensitive, so, for example, Foo, fOo and FOO are all treated as the same. The following are examples of common search patterns:

• deep -- lists all the documents that contain the word 'deep'

• deep* -- lists all the documents that contain a word beginning with 'deep'

• deep copy -- lists all documents that contain both 'deep' and 'copy'

• "deep copy" -- list all documents that contain the phrase 'deep copy'

The list of documents found is ordered according to the number of occurrences of the search text which they contain, with those containing the highest number of occurrences appearing first. Results are grouped according to the documentation categories to which they belong, and a preview of the content is displayed. By default, all search results are displayed.

Figure 4: Search results - All Results

You can select a category to filter the search results accordingly.

Figure 5: Search results - Demos

You can then click any document in the list to display it in the Documentation window

Figure 6: Search results - Selecting a Demo result to display