Online Help for Oracle WebCenter Content: Desktop

Select Content Dialog - Search Panel

The Search panel in the Select Content dialog enables you to search for files on an Oracle WebCenter Content Server instance and select one or more of them for further use: to be opened or viewed in a Microsoft Office application, inserted into a Microsoft Office document, attached to an email message, or compared to the current Word document (depending on where you opened this dialog).

Note:

You may not be able to do all these actions for files on every content server, depending on the server type. For example, you cannot compare file revisions on an Oracle Content Database server.

You search for files using a standard content server search form where you specify the search criteria that files should meet. You can then select one or more files in the search results list for further use. You can perform searches based on metadata (that is, information about files) or full text (that is, text contained in the actual files), or a combination of both. For more details on searching for files on the content server, see the Oracle WebCenter Content Server documentation.

To find content, specify the search criteria that the content items should meet and click Search (in the search form or the dialog, depending on the content server configuration). The dialog then displays a list of all content items on the server that meet the specified criteria. How this search results list is presented depends on the content server version and configuration.

Depending on the application context, you may be able to select only one item or multiple items from the search results list. If you can select only one item for further processing, each item in the list has a Select button. If you can select multiple items, each item has a selection check box.

Element	Description
	This is the icon of the current dialog.
	Click the Browse icon to open the Select Content Dialog - Browse Panel.
	Click the Offline Files icon to open the Select Content Dialog - Offline Files Panel. This option may not be available, depending on the context in which you are selecting a file.
	Click this icon to go back one page in a multipage list of search results. If you click this icon on the first search results page, you return to the search form. You can also right-click in an unused area of the search form and choose Back or Forward on the menu to move between the search results pages and the search form.
Server	Select the content server that you want to search. If you select a different server than the current one, you may be prompted to provide your login name and password (depending on the server configuration). The list of available servers includes only Oracle WebCenter Content Server instances; it does not show any Oracle Content Database servers or other WebDAV servers (as opposed to the server list on the Browse page). This is because the search page uses standard Oracle WebCenter Content Server search functionality.
Profile	Select the content profile that should be applied to the search form (providing any profiles are defined on the content server). Content profiles are used to limit the metadata fields shown on the search form (and also several other content server pages), depending on the type of content. For example, a "Sales" profile might show metadata fields for revenue numbers, sales forecasts, and the like, whereas a "Support" profile might show metadata fields for case number, status, and the like. Profiles are available only if you are connecting to Oracle WebCenter Content Server 12c R2 or Oracle Content Server 11g R1. They are not available for Oracle Content Server 10g R3. Contact your content server administrator if you need any assistance.
Search form	This is the standard search form on an Oracle WebCenter Content Server instance. What it looks like depends on the server version and configuration. Specify the search criteria and click Search when you are done to start the search query. A search results list is then displayed which shows all content items on the server that meet the specified search criteria.
Edit / View	These options are available only when you are opening a file in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint using the WebCenter Content menu or ribbon. They allow you to select whether you want to open the file for editing or viewing in the current Microsoft Office application. If you select a file for editing, it is opened in the current Microsoft Office application and checked out of the content server. You can make changes as required. When you are done and you close the document or application, you are given the opportunity to check the file back in to the content server as a new revision of the original file. If you select a file for viewing, it is opened in the current Microsoft Office application as a copy of the original file, which is not checked out of the content server. You can make changes as required, but when you are done and you close the document or application, you need to save it as a new file, either locally (using the application's built-in save-as feature) or on the content server (using the Save As New... option on the WebCenter Content menu or ribbon).
Help	Click this button to display context-sensitive help information for this dialog.
Search	Click this button to search the selected content server for all files that meet the specified search criteria.
Cancel	Click this button to close the dialog without selecting a file.