Searching Channels

The search tool can help you find new channels that match your interests and can help you sort through your current subscriptions to channels.

To perform a search:

1. Click the Search button ().

2. In the Search For field, enter one or more words. The search tool interprets words that you enter in the Search For field as either a collection of separate words to be searched for individually or as a single phrase. By default, it interprets multiple words as a collection of separate words.

3. In the Search In tab, select the types of objects that you want to search for. If you search across multiple lists, the results of the search are displayed together in a single list. The default Search field value changes to match the list view in Subscription Manager when you activated the search tool.

4. In the For Attributes tab, select the properties for the search tool to examine. By default, it searches in the Name field.

5. In the Advanced tab, select the matching criteria and whether the words you entered in the Search For field represent a collection of individual words or a single phrase. The default matching criterion is Contains one of the words. Additional criteria are outlined in the following table.

   If a field	Search criteria
   Contains one of the words	An item will be found if one of the words that you specified in the Search For field is contained in at least one of fields you selected in the For Attributes tab.
   Contains the phrase	An item is found if the entire phrase that you specified in the Search For field is contained in at least one of the fields you selected in the For Attributes tab.
   Exactly contains the phrase	An item is found if the phrase that you specified in the Search For field exactly matches the value in at least one of the fields you selected in the For Attributes tab.

6. Click OK.

The results of a search are displayed in the List View.

Searching is not case-sensitive, and each search matches against all available channels or groups, regardless of the currently listed channels or groups.

Note: If you cannot view existing channels to which you previously subscribed using SAS Subscription Manager, Release 1.1, your existing channel and subscriber definitions are out of date. To fix this problem, the publishing framework administrator at your site must explicitly update the schema files to SAS Version 9.

After the search results display, you can select View channel details.