How to Use the Search Engine

How to Use the Search Engine: Opening the Search Engine; Quicksearches on NEs and tiles; Searching on Configurations; Helpful Hints

To open the search engine:

1.	Click on the cabinet roof, and

2.	Select Open Search Results.

To quicksearch on NEs by title:

1.	Click on the cabinet roof,

2.	A dialog box will ask for the name of the NE. Enter it and hit .

To quicksearch on tiles by title:

1.	Click on the cabinet roof,

2.	A dialog box will ask for the name of the NE. Enter it and hit .

To quicksearch on saved configurations:

1.	Click on the cabinet roof, and

2.	Select the appropriate configuration type.

How to Use the Search Engine: Using Results

To add an NE or NEs to any association area of an NE, to the bench, or to the cabinet:

1.	Activate the NE to which you want to associate the found NEs (* only if adding to an association area).

2.	Select the NE in the search results that you wanted to add to an association area of the active NE, or add to the bench or a cabinet panel.

3.	Click under the NE list, and

4.	Select the appropriate area from the list of:

•	Contributions By (left wing)

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Affinity

•	Contributions To (right wing)

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Bench

•	mouseover Open in Panel --> and select the target cabinet panel.

You can open any NE in any cabinet panel. All cabinet panels are listed either as **EMPTY** if there is no NE currently displayed in that panel, or listed by the name of the NE currently occupying that panel. You can replace any NE in any panel, or can place the found NE in an empty panel, as best suits your purposes. Opening an NE in a cabinet does not change your knowledge structure in any way, it just displays the NE in the cabinet.

It is only possible to open an NE in the cabinet if that NE already exists in the cabinet tree structure. NEs that exist in the cabinet are indicated with a and may be opened in any cabinet panel. NEs that do not exist in the cabinet are indicated with a and may not be opened in any cabinet panel. NEs that do not exist in the cabinet may be added to the cabinet at any time.

To add a tile or tiles from search results to the tile scroller of an NE or to the bench.

1.	Activate the NE to which you want to associate the found tiles.

2.	Select the tile you want to add to the tile scroller of the active NE, and

3.	Click under the tile list, and

4.	Select either

•	Tile Scroller, or

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Bench.

You can multiselect NEs and tiles via Shift + Click.

To activate an NE from search results (NE list or tile list):

1.	Click the NE on the list, then

2.	Click . There are two buttons, one under the NE list and the other under the tile list. Use the one under the NE list to activate the NE in the NE list and the one under the tile list to activate the NE that the selected tile is in.

To play a tile from search results:

1.	Click the tile on the list, then

Click

To open a search results NE in the cabinet:

1.	Rightclick on the NE, and

2.	Select Open in panel...

You can open an NE in the cabinet from the search engine from any front room just as easily as you can from the back view. However, from the back view you can see the cabinet that you are opening the NE in, which makes it easier to select the panel you want to use.

To see the tiles in any NE in search results:

1.	Rightclick on the NE, and

2.	Select Find all Tiles contained in this NE.

Tiles will be added to the current list of tiles in search results.

The DNE will order NE search results alphabetically. However, tile search results can be ordered in different ways.

To change the order of tile search results:

•	To order tiles alphabetically by tile, click on Tile Name at the top of the results page,

•	To order tiles alphabetically by NE, click on NE Name at the top of the results page,

•	To order tiles by tile type, click the box above the column of tile icons.

To expand a search (add NEs or tiles to results list):

1.	Click (the left one to expand the NE search, the right one to expand the tile search), and

2.	Enter the search to be added to the current results.

To refine a search (remove NEs or tiles from results list):

1.	Click (to refine NE search results) or click (to refine tile search results).

2.	In the dialog box, type the text you want removed from the search results.

To navigate a search:

1.	Click any NE or tile in search results to make that the central object. It will appear in the upper box in the center column of the search results. Navigation takes place via the lower box.

2.	Click any NE or tile in the lower box to make it the central object.

3.	You can either or . This always refers to the central object in the upper box.

Helpful Hints

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The search results window cannot be moved, and it opens to cover the active NE and most of the room you are in. However, the DNE can be moved out from underneath it. If you are working with two monitors or a single monitor set at a high resolution, there are many options, but if you are working with a single monitor set at 1024x768, the best way to see both the active NE in the room as well as the search results is to:

1.	Drag the in the bottom left corner of the DNE to move the DNE a few inches - the width of the active NE - to the right (it will move off the right edge of the screen),

2.	Open the search engine, then

3.	Doubleclick the to snap the DNE back to fullscreen mode

Now you will be able to see the active NE and your search results at the same time.