Search

Search Facets

The left bar of the search page offers several search facets to control which search results will be displayed.

Note

Colectica Portal is highly configurable. Which options are available here depends on the configuration of your portal.

Item Types

The Item Type facet determines which types of items will be returned in the search results. The most common types of items are show directly in the list. You can select additional types of items by clicking the More button. After selecting your preferred item types, click the Refine button to perform the search.

If no item types are selected, all item types will be searched.

Series, Study, Instrument, etc.

Colectica Portal may be configured to allow you to search within certain items. For example, the Study facet allows you to select one or more studies, and only see results that are part of that study.

After selecting your preferred items, click the Refine button to perform the search.

Life Stage

The Life Stage facet allows you to find only items related to particular life stage (e.g., Birth, Early Years, Adulthood).

After selecting your preferred life stages, click the Refine button to perform the search.

Topic

The Topics facet allows you to find only items related to a particular topic.

After selecting your preferred topics, click the Refine button to perform the search.

Search Query

Enter some text in the search query box. Only items containing this text somewhere in their definitions will be included in the search results.

Optional ElasticSearch Query

Using the optional ElasticSearch backend, the following types of queries are available. Language specific stopwords and stemming are also available.

Example	Description
house	Searches for different forms of the word house (e.g., house, housing, houses)
house age	Searches for different forms of the word house AND age
house AND age	Same as above; The “AND” is optional
house OR age	Searches for either house or age
“house age”	Searches for the exact phrase house age
house -age	Searches for items that contain house but that do not contain age
+house	Searches for the exact term house; housing and houses would not be included
~house	Fuzzy search for house; may include close words like hose and huse
<house age>	Searches for house and age in close proximity to each other

Result Order

The Sort by field determines the order in which search results are displayed.

Alphabetical

Items will be displayed in alphabetical order.

ItemType

Items will be sorted by their type (e.g., variable, question, study), and then alphabetically.

MetadataRank

Items will be sorted by their Metadata Rank. The more times an item is referenced by other items, the higher its metadata rank.

VersionDate

Items will be sorted by how recently they were published.

Advanced Search Options

Click the More button, if available, to display advanced search options.

Include deprecated items

Determines whether items marked as deprecated will be shown in the search results. By default, deprecated items are not displayed.

Note

Depending on your portal’s configuration, advanced search options may not be available.

Performing a Search

After choosing your search criteria, you can perform the search in a number of ways.

• After typing in the search query text box, press the Enter key.

• Click the blue search button connected to the search query text box.

• Click the Refine button in any of the search facet boxes.

Results

Search Summary

The search summary shows:

• All criteria used to perform the search

• The number of results returned

• The time taken to perform the search on the server

Results List

Each search result contains several pieces of information:

• A label for the item, which links to the item’s detail page

• A basket icon, which allows you to add the item to your basket

• Detailed text for the item

• Breadcrumbs to show the context of the item