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Added help for general search, basic search, and advanced search.

    1: \label{Search_Basic}
    2: 
    3: The Basic search page allows you to specify a phrase or
    4: expression to search for in the LON-CAPA resource repository.  Search
    5: strings can contain quoted phrases, multiple words, '-' (meaning
    6: ``not''), and multiple words or phrases joined with 'or'.  For
    7: example:
    8: 
    9: \begin{itemize}
   10: \item \textbf{cat} Matches resources about cats.
   11: \item \textbf{cat or dog} Matches resources about cats or dogs.
   12: \item \textbf{cat dog} Matches resources about both ``cat'' and ``dog''.
   13: \item \textbf{``fluffy cat'' -dog} Matches resources on the phrase ``fluffy cat'' that do not contain ``dog''.
   14: \end{itemize}
   15: 
   16: There are two checkboxes on the basic search page.  The first allows
   17: you to limit your search to the domain of the machine you are
   18: currently logged into.  The second causes a thesaurus lookup to be
   19: done on your search phrase.  Search results will include resources
   20: which match any of the related phrases as well as the original phrase.
   21: 
   22: The resource metadata fields searched in a basic search are listed
   23: below.  It is worth noting that the data searched is self-reported by
   24: the resource author.  In many cases authors are unable to provide
   25: relevant values for the fields searched.  If you need to search based
   26: on properties other than the following, use the \ref{Search_Advanced}
   27: Advanced Search link on the basic search page.
   28: 
   29: \begin{itemize}
   30: \item title
   31: \item author
   32: \item subject
   33: \item notes
   34: \item abstract
   35: \item keywords
   36: \end{itemize}
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