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Advanced Search

Advanced Search provides more options for narrowing a search. For example, you can search for documents within a specific date range, and you can search across all sites at the same time.

  1. Click DOCUMENTS, and then click All Documents or My Documents.
  2. Click the Search for box to display the basic search options, and then click Advanced Search.

The Advanced Search form is displayed.

  1. In one or more of the Find results boxes, type the search text.

Note: Advanced searches are not case-sensitive.

If you type text in more than one box, then all of the text must be found within the selected document areas in order for a document to be found. In the Advanced Search form below, for example, for a document to be found by this search, its title and contents combined must contain both of the words schedule and work plus the exact phrase "monday through friday."

  1. In the Search Fields area, select the document areas you want to search and deselect what you want excluded from the search.
  1. In the Status area, select the statuses to include and deselect the statuses to exclude.
  1. (Optional) In the Date Range area,
  1. Click the top box, and then click the document milestone you want to search by.
  1. Click by the From and To boxes and select the date range start and end dates.

Important: To search all dates, leave the From and To boxes blank.

  1. Click the Search In box, and then click All Sites or an individual site.
  1. (Optional) Click the View Top box, and then click how many of the most relevant matching documents you want listed.
  1. Click Search.

The matching documents, if any, are displayed below the Advance Search form, with some of the matching text highlighted.

  1. (Optional) If you searched all sites, in the Site(s) column click View to see which site or sites the document is assigned to.
  2. To open a document, click its title.
  3. To exit the Advance Search form, in the main PolicyTechâ„¢ window, click any status under All Documents or any role assignment under My Documents.