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You can use search to find documents, text in a document, applications, and people. You can also set search preferences for type of search query syntax and scope of search.
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How can I search for applications when Domain Search is enabled?
Domain Search is a powerful tool that allows you to search a Domino® domain, or across several Domino domains, as determined by the Domino administrator (or Domain Search application manager), who also specifies what documents, applications, and files are available for searching.

Search
You can use search to find documents, text in a document, applications, and people. You can also set search preferences for type of search query syntax and scope of search.
- Getting started with Search
  You can search from Notes to find documents, document text, applications, and people.
- Search quick reference
  This quick reference card is a list of instructions for common tasks and shortcuts for Notes search, which you can print and keep at your desk for easy reference.
- Working with Search
  Learn to use correct search syntax, and perform searches of your calendar, contacts, other applications, and the internet, all from within Notes.
- Advanced Search topics
  Learn more about the Search capabilities of Notes.
  - How can I create and manage a full-text index?
    Full-text indexing an application makes searching for documents faster and more accurate, and allows you to refine or expand your searches, and to sort your results. You can create and change an application's full-text index or update one that already exists.
  - How can I add a condition to a More search query?
    When you add a condition to a search query in the More section of search, it focuses your search on more specific results. For example, you can specify that you want to find only documents that have a particular number in a particular field, or that contain certain specified words.
  - How can I refine a search query using operators?
    Search operators are words and characters that search for words, fields, dates, and numbers in specific combinations. You can use operators to refine your search.
  - How can I search for applications?
    You can search for applications by title or part of a title. The application search looks for matching text in a list of application titles in the catalog application (Catalog.nsf) stored on your home server (or on the catalog server specified in your current Location document).
  - How can I specify the catalog to use for an application search?
    When you search for an application, you must specify the server to search in. Ask your administrator whether your organization has a server intended for application catalog. You should use this server if available. If not, Search defaults to using your home server.
  - How can I search for applications when Domain Search is enabled?
    Domain Search is a powerful tool that allows you to search a Domino® domain, or across several Domino domains, as determined by the Domino administrator (or Domain Search application manager), who also specifies what documents, applications, and files are available for searching.

How can I search for applications when Domain Search is enabled?

Domain Search is a powerful tool that allows you to search a Domino® domain, or across several Domino® domains, as determined by the Domino® administrator (or Domain Search application manager), who also specifies what documents, applications, and files are available for searching.

In the current Domino® domain, you can search for:

Applications whose titles contain specified text
Documents that contain text (a word or phrase) you specify
Documents whose fields contain text that meets search conditions you specify
File systems that contain text you specify. A file system is a directory your administrator sets up on a server to contain non-Notes files such as word processing files.

Note: Even if your organization has not set up Domain Search, you can still use an application catalog to find applications in your Domino® domain whose titles contain specified text.

Note: For more information on the Domain Search feature, see the HCL Domino® Administrator Help.