What is the webhelp search syntax?

[Kendra Bowker]

Is there any documentation on webhelp search syntax? For example, can you use AND/OR operators? Can you enclose in quotes for exact phrase search? Thanks.

[Costin]

Hi Kendra,

The rules supported by the search engine in WebHelp are documented in this section from the WebHelp Responsive User-Guide.

As you can see from the search rules;

- You can use quotes to perform an exact search for multiple word phrases (for example, "grow flowers" will only return results if both words are found consecutively and exactly as they are typed in the search field). This type of search is known as a phrase search.
- Boolean Search is supported using the following operators: and, or, not. When there are two adjacent search terms without an operator, or is used as the default search operator (for example, grow flowers is the same as grow or flowers).

Regards,
Costin