Searching for IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Repository Objects
You can search for objects by name, type, version, date range, or other criteria such as keywords, or data dictionary information (for IBM SPSS Statistics data files) such as variable names or value labels.
From the IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Repository Retrieve dialog box:
1 Click the Search tab.
2 Select the type of search (Search all fields or Restrict search) and specify search terms, such as the name of the object or the author.
3 Specify whether to restrict the search to objects that match all search terms (Must contain ALL of the terms), or whether results will include objects matching any of the specified terms (Contains ANY of the terms).
4 Click Search.
5 Select one or more of the search results in the right pane, and then click Retrieve.
Specifying search criteria
Search all fields
Searches the IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Repository for objects that match some or all of the specified terms, depending on which of Contains ANY of the terms or Must contain ALL of the terms is selected. All fields such as Author, Label, and Keywords are included in the search (see Restrict search below for a listing of fields). Specifying an asterisk (*) will return all objects.
Restrict search
Used to limit the search to a specified set of fields; for instance, Author and Title. The results of the search include objects that match some or all of the specified fields, depending on which of Contains ANY of the terms or Must contain ALL of the terms is selected.
Contains ANY of the terms
Specifies that the search returns objects that match any of the specified terms. For example, selecting Restrict search and specifying Author = "Fred" and Keywords = "credit" searches for objects with either "Fred" as the author or "credit" as one of the keywords.
Must contain ALL of the terms
Specifies that the search only returns objects that match all of the specified terms. For example, selecting Restrict search and specifying
Title = "credit_risk_analysis" and Label = "production"
returns objects named "credit_risk_analysis" that have a label of "production".
Notes
▪All searches are case-insensitive.
▪Matching an exact phrase is not supported. Each specified search term is treated separately. For example, specifying "churn testbed" in the Search all fields box and with Must contain ALL of the terms selected, returns objects that match both "churn" and "testbed", irrespective of whether the matches occur in the same field.
▪In addition to the specified search terms, the search matches objects that contain the roots of those terms. For example, ‘fishing’ matches ‘fish’, ‘fisher’, and ‘fished’, in addition to ‘fishing’. This functionality is only provided for English.
Terms not included in a search
These words are ignored when searching:
a, all, am, an, and, any, are, as, at, be, but, by, can, could, did, do, does, etc, for, from, goes, got, had, has, have, he, her, him, his, how, if, in, is, it, let, me, more, much, must, my, nor, not, now, of, off, on, or, our, own, see, set, shall, she, should, so, some, than, that, the, them, then, there, these, this, those, though, to, too, us, was, way, we, what, when, where, which, who, why, will, would, yes, yet, you
You cannot modify the terms in this list.
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