Text Search · Redwood Documentation

You search the online help using the text field on the left-hand side of the online help page, when frames are enabled. The search results are retrieved from www.redwood.com, so an active internet connection is required; this limitation is due to licensing restrictions imposed on us by our third-party vendors.

Since the help system is composed of multiple guides, when you search the online help all guides are searched by default. You search in a specific guide by checking the Current guide checkbox.

The search system supports the following search methods:

keyword search
fuzzy search
wildcard search
proximity search

note

Although the help search works fine with all mayor browsers when browsing online, when you open the html help locally with Mozilla Firefox, the results will not be clickable; this is a security feature. You may use another browser or copy paste the url of the result into the Address field of your browser.

The maximum number of results is limited to 200. You may also limit the search results to the current guide.

Keyword Search

A keyword search is a simple search by which the keywords specified are located in topics, if the keyword appears in the title, the topic will be ranked higher than others. If you search for a series of keywords, surround the keywords with quotes (").

Fuzzy Search

Fuzzy search allows you to search for a word similar to the one you entered. The syntax is to specify the word followed by a tilde (~) and a number < 1. For example, Constrainers~0.8 will match Constraints. The smaller the number, the fuzzier the search.

Note that you cannot search for multiple words in quotes using fuzzy search, however, you may specify multiple keywords with the fuzzy modifier. For example: Constrainers~0.8 Parameter~0.8.

Wildcard Search

You can use wildcards in your search queries, however, these do not work well with CamelCase words, use fuzzy search instead. Also, you cannot specify a search query starting with a wildcard. The supported wildcards are * and ?.

Proximity Search

You can search for multiple words in proximity of each other using quotes a tilde (~) and a number > 1. For example, "Process Parameters"~1 will match Process Server Parameters.