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Menu Assisted

The Menu-Assisted Search allows you to run single-word or phrase queries. This interface helps guide you through the process of creating a complex search. The operators provided by Menu-Assisted Query will help you create queries that find the most relevant hits in the most efficient way.

Perceptive Enterprise Search utilizes JavaScript to build up the query. When the user clicks one of the query operators the script will take the value in IW_FIELD_TERM and add it to the IW_FIELD_TEXT with the operator.

<a href="javascript:DoAction('AND');">AND which ALSO contains</a>
<a href="javascript:DoAction('OR');">OR which contains</a>
<a href="javascript:DoAction('NOT');">BUT do NOT contain</a>
<a href="javascript:DoAction('\\\\');">Within a PARAGRAPH of</a>
<a href="javascript:DoAction('//');">In the same PARAGRAPH as</a>
<a href="javascript:DoAction('/10/');">Within 10 WORDS of</a>
<a href="javascript:DoAction('...');">Followed anywhere by</a>

Migrating Version 6

Perceptive Enterprise Search Version 6 used a different approach to menu assisted known as Post-Back. This method is no longer supported in Perceptive Enterprise Search, however, your menu-assisted pages will automatically be configured to use the Javascript approach.

See Also

How Perceptive Enterprise Search searches > Menu Assisted