Digging Deeper with Advanced Search

Concept

Advanced Search is based on categories that consist of fields containing similar content. With a traditional keyword search, the term "china" will return records related to the country as well as the material. Creating an "Artifact Composition" category, then mapping fields such as Material, Medium, and Rock Type will allow for more specific searching. Searching within the "Artifact Composition" category will only return items that have "china" in their mapped fields. The search categories and field mapping can be customized using the Web Publishing Wizard in your PastPerfect Software.

Just like in Keyword Search, Advanced Search is not case sensitive and will only search fields that are mapped to an advanced search category.

Task

1. Click the Advanced Search button on your PastPerfect Online site.
2. Use the checkboxes in Records to Include to filter the types of records you want to search.
3. Search for Hilton in the People field and Quilt in the Description field to retrieve only the records that fit both of these criteria.
   
   
   
   
4. Click the Search button to see a list of records that match your search criteria. The information displayed for your results is determined by your settings in both the Web Publishing Wizard and IMS, as covered in the Exploring Search Results topic.
   
   
   
   
5. Click on a result to view the full record.

References

• Web Publishing Wizard - Setting Up Advanced Search Categories
• Exploring Search Results
• Interface Management Site - Buttons Tab