What is Advanced Search

Welcome to the Continuous Manufacturing Knowledge Center Advanced Search User Guide! Here, we'll explore the robust capabilities of the Advanced Search feature, enabling users to refine their searches with precision. With a variety of filters available, including tag, post, user, date, category, and content type, navigating the community's vast knowledge base has never been easier. 

Whether you're a seasoned member or new to the community, this guide will walk you through effectively utilizing Advanced Search to streamline your search experience in the Community. Let's dive in and uncover the full potential of your search queries!

Where To Find the Advanced Search

** The advanced search can be initiated from any page in the community. 

** The advanced search is contextual to where the group/ page the search was initiated on

1. Begin by navigating to the Continuous Manufacturing Knowledge Center Community website and accessing the search bar located at the top of the page.

1. Click inside the search bar to activate it and enter your search term or query.
2. Once you've entered your search term, you have two options:
   1. Press the "Enter" key to bring up the advanced search page
   2. Alternatively, you can click on the “Advanced Search” button in the bottom right of the search results list

Advance Search Filters Explained

*Multiple filters can be combined and applied 

• Most Relevant: Sort the search results either by the most relevant (depending on what's groups/ content you view frequently), the most recent (group/ content users created), in alphabetical order (by content title, username, and group name), and highest rating (for content - which has upvotes, likes, or star ratings). 

• Content Type or Users: Choose to filter down your advanced search results list to a specific content type that contains a piece of content that aligns with your search term or to view user profiles that align with your search term. The applicaitons in this community are: Resources, Ask the Community, and all Discussion areas.

• Anywhere: Based on the contexuality (where the search is initiated). In this example below, it was initiated at the site level - so the advanced search results can be further filtered down to look at results from a specific group. If you are searching at a group level - the anywhere option would include subgroups (if there are any). 
  
  

• By anyone: If there is specific content within the advanced search results, this filter can be used to filter down to content authored by a specific user. 

• By Tag: This is used to further filter down the content from the advanced search results page and filter content by specific tags. 

• Anytime: This filter is used to filter content/groups/users (created) on the advanced search page within a given time frame: either in the past week, the past month, or the past year.