Search Other Content

The Search Other Content menu item allows the user to search service metadata of certain content types by selecting content types and specifying keywords. The Content Types on the left include Background, Service Provider, Service Functionality, Description (Security, QoS and Policy Descriptions), Service Operations, Messages, and Data Definition Documents. Content Types are not listed alphabetically, but by the frequency of the matching items of that type, displayed in parentheses after the type. The user can choose to filter on any Content Type by selecting it. The search results are presented in panels and the results may be sorted by relevancy, content title, and content type. Selecting the name of an item in the result set brings the user to the appropriate View for that item as it would appear in its service's description, with the navigation menu for that service appearing on the left.

The user can also search the results for occurrences of words or phrases (keywords) by entering keyword search terms in the text box of the form. These keywords can be enclosed in quotes to search for an exact match, and can be preceded by a + sign to require all matches to include the term, and a - sign to require all matches to exclude a term. When the user searches with one keyword only, that keyword in the search results will be highlighted. When the user enters multiple terms in the text box without qualifying punctuation, the result set will combine the keywords with an implicit logical OR.

The type selection and the keyword search are formed in a logical AND operation to produce the search results.