Search and Navigate
There are many ways to search, navigate and find your content in Paligo.
For navigating your content, we recommend that you browse your folders and topics in the Content Manager.
To search for content, use:
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Quick Search - Located in the top menu, see Quick Search. -
Advanced Search - Located in the the Quick Search. This is the most powerful search and you can use it to search content in an even more granular
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Taxonomies - You can find content you have tagged with taxonomy categories by clicking on the category in Taxonomy Manager.
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You can navigate through a publication in the Content Manager by expanding it to reveal its contents.
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Similarly, you can navigate through publications using the Structure View:
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In the Content Manager, select the publication that you want to view.
Paligo displays the publication's structure.
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Select a topic name.
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Scroll down to view the Metadata section.
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Find the heading Location. and select the location. Paligo will open the folder where the topic is located.
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Each publication has its own Structure search that you can use to find topics inside a publication. This feature is useful when you know a topic is included somewhere in a publication, but you are not sure about its exact location.
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In the Content Manager, select the publication that you want to view.
Paligo displays the publication's structure.
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Select the search icon at the top of the structure view to display the Search in structure search.
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Use the Search in structure field to search for topics inside the publication.
If there is a matching result, it is highlighted in the publication's structure.
At the bottom of Content Manager you can access a filter search to scan the content. There are several search options to narrow down the search.
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Enter the text in the search field.
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Use the search option checkboxes to narrow down the search.
For example, if you only want to search for images, clear the other search options.
When you use the search features, you can perform an exact search or a close match search.
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Close match
Paligo uses a close match search by default. When you enter a term, Paligo finds any content that contains the words in the search term. It does not matter if the words in the search term do not appear next to each other or in a different order.
To perform a close match search, enter your term in the search field.
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Exact match
With an exact match, Paligo will only find content that has the search term. The search term has to appear in the content in the same order as it is defined in the search term and cannot have other words in between.
To perform an exact match, enclose your term in double-quotes. For example, "temperature controls"
By checking the box Enable wildcard search next to the search field, you can use wildcards to find content. This option is available in all different search fields in Paligo.
Use the following symbols:
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* - An asterisk can represent one or many characters
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? - A question mark can represent any single character
You can use these symbols anywhere in the search string. For example, automati* would find both "automation" and "automatic", and automo?i?e would find both "automobile" and "automotive".
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The image shows the wildcard option in the Quick Search.
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Remember to check the box Enable wildcard search next to the search field to use wildcards.
You can search and replace text in the editor by using the Source Code Editor. It provides more complex search and replace actions, such as replacing values in attributes.
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Select Edit source code under the Edit tab in the toolbar.
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Place the cursor inside the Source Code Editor.
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Hit Ctrl + H (Windows) or Cmd ⌘ + Option ⌥ + F (Mac) to open the Search and Replace widget.
The search field appears in the Source Code Editor.
Tip
If you hit Ctrl + F (Windows) or Cmd ⌘ + F (Mac) you only open the Search widget.
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Use the different options to search and replace one at a time or all at once. You can combinate several options or use them separately.
When an option is chosen, it gets a blue square around it. To deselect it, click it once more.
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Toogle between Next and Previous search hits. Select ALL to show all
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Whole Word Search looks for word boundary markers, such as ending space, beginning space or punctuation mark for each match.
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Select Update to save the changes or Cancel to ignore the changes.
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Close the Source Code Editor with the X in the top right corner.
The Quick Search is located in the right corner of the top menu and provides a convenient way of finding content. When you do a quick search, Paligo presents the results in a list, categorized according to the type of content.
Quick Search also has a number of useful options, such as quickly locating a resource (topic, image) by its ID (see Search Using ID).
The image to the left shows search results in Quick Search. The image to the right shows the Quick Search options.
The Quick Search is located in the right corner of the top menu.
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Select Quick Search in the top menu.
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Enter the text in the search field.
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Use the search option checkboxes to narrow down the search.
For example, if you only want to search for images, clear the other search options.
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Press Enter.
You can use the Quick Search Enable Autolocate feature to search for content based on its ID. This is useful when you have the ID and want to find the corresponding topic, image, folder, etc.
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Select the search icon below your profile to display the Quick Search bar.
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Select the arrow icon on the Quick Search bar and then check the box for Enable Autolocate.
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In the Quick search field, enter the ID that you want to search for. Use this format:
id:<number>For example, id:1234
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Press Enter or select the search icon at the end of the Quick Search bar to start the search.
Paligo displays the Resource View of the folder that contains the matching topic. The Resource View shows all topics in that folder, and the name of the matching topic flashes to show it has the id you are searching for.