Note Your Domino administrator sets up Domain Search. The administrator or application manager determines what documents, applications, and files are available for searching; not every application in the domain is automatically included. Files are stored in file systems, which are server directories specified by the administrator.

Applications are also listed by categories that the application manager or an administrator can specify in each application's properties box. Domain Search lets you select from a list of those categories to narrow your search.

1. Access Domain Search from the Welcome page.

2. Select the documents option

3. Enter text in the Containing field.

4. (Optional) Select results options.

5. (Optional) Click More and do any or all of the following:

• Click Text, select and, or, or not, select contains or does not contain, and enter text.
Tip For best results, use only one text condition per query.
• Click Author, select and, or, or not, select contains or does not contain, and enter text.
• Click Title, select and, or, or not, select contains or does not contain, and enter text.
• Click Date created, select and, or, or not, select is on, is after, or another option from that list, and either enter the date(s) or click the calendar icon and select date(s).
• Click Date modified, select and, or, or not, select is on, is after, or another option from that list, and either enter the date(s) or click the calendar icon and select date(s).

7. (Optional) Select Fuzzy search. This option finds words with slightly different spellings and arrangement (click for details.

8. (Optional) Refine your query using search operators.

9. Do one of the following:

• To search for documents in Notes applications in the domain, leave Notes applications selected.
• To search for both documents in Notes applications and files in a file system directory on the Domain Search server, select File system. Files are non-Notes files such as word processing and other text files; the available files are specified by your administrator.
• To search for files only, deselect Notes applications and select File system.

11. (Optional) Limit the total number of results and the number of results shown on each page of results by clicking More and entering number values in the fields Maximum __ results (zero means all) and Display __ results per page.

12. Click Search.

Tip To remove a condition, click this button . To reset the entire form, click Reset.

Notes returns Domain Search results in a document that contains a list of links to documents or files that match your search query. You can forward or save this document.

To view a document or file that matches your search query, double-click the document or file title. If you double-click a file, Search attempts to open it in your default browser, or offers to download it.

Note If you don't have access to a particular document, it won't appear in any search results.

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See Also

Search tips
Searching for applications in a domain
Searching for information in applications in your domain
Saving and forwarding Domain Search results

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