Submit a prepared query from the list which has been provided for you by selecting the query and clicking on the Start Search button. You will usually want to start with the one which has been selected. Then select any others from the list and run those. Or, select "Custom Query" from the list; then you can design one of your own in the "Custom Query" box. If you are a new client, this list may not yet be prepared for you, or it may not have been required for your application.

Best results can be obtained by entering a query in the Content field, with Concept Search enabled. Use the Date and Headline fields to further qualify the Content search, as required.

When you submit a search, a list of Search Results will be retrieved. Click on any you would like to read. The full text of that article will be brought up. Click on "first match" to move to the words in the text which satisfied the search request. Clicking on those words will take you to the next occurrence in the text, if there is one.

In the case where more than one textbase is being searched, the results will be listed separately. Generally our main feed is searched first, followed by any Supplementary Sources which might have applicability to your special needs.

The process of creating prepared queries which reflect the content you are interested in along with special terms where necessary (also referred to as concept sets) to filter a specially selected data feed is called Profiling, and we'll work with you as needed to refine this process til we get it right. Your list of prepared queries has been designed to get a good cross-section of the information you want, so try those first to get started.

Things You Can Do

• You can see what concept sets your Terms consist of by clicking on the button at the top of your Custom BI Interface called Special Terms Used in Your Profile.

• You can request the following of Tech Support:
  • That other special terms be created.
  • That other words or phrases be added to an existing term.
  • That other prepared queries be added to this list.
  • Deletions as above, of course, may be also be requested.

• You can use these special terms as in the examples given, enter them alone, or enter them along with any other valid search item in an open query box.

• You can apply logic operators to any search item. By default, and logic is used, and articles containing sentences with intersections of all search terms will be found.

• You can adjust the proximity of search terms, so that they are looked for within a line ("w/line"), a paragraph ("w/para"), a whole document ("w/all"), or a number of characters ("w/300"). By default, sentence proximity ("w/sent") is used.

• Your queries probably have concept search enabled by default. To turn off concept search expansion on a particular English word, precede it with a
  tilde ~; (e.g., "~arms" to just find your limbs, no "weapons".) Note: A tilde in front of a special term will find nothing.

• Adjust Date option, or increase number of maximum hits to look further back in time.

• Scroll down to view the Prepared Query list, click on one to select it, then click on Start Search. (Try your default query first.)

• Select Custom Query from the Prepared Queries list before entering a Custom Query. You can enter any query you like in the Custom Query box, which searches against the content of the article. Don't forget to delete it if you go back and select a Prepared Query, before submitting another search.