Search Interface
Searching with Coveo Enterprise Search is easy. All you have to do is enter one or a few keywords about what you are looking for, and then click the Search button or press the Enter key. Coveo Enterprise Search will then search for all documents that match the keywords and display the search results page containing all pertinent documents that were found.
What happens if I make a spelling mistake?
If a word in the query is mistaken, Coveo Enterprise Search will offer a correction according to the content of its own word bank. You can then choose to try the search again with the corrected query.
After you perform a query, Coveo Enterprise Search will display information about the most relevant results that were found. The layout of the search results is dependent on your system administrator, but here is the information it most commonly contain:
Title: The title of the document. Search keywords are highlighted in the title.
Excerpt: A small excerpt from the content of the document, choosen from the keywords you included in your query. If any of those keywords is present within the excerpt, it will be highlighted.
Author: The name of the last person who modified this document.
Modified Date: The date at which the document was last modified.
Size: The size of the document when it was indexed.
Address: The address of the document where it was indexed.
Summary link: Click this link to open the Summary for the document.
Folder/Document Library link: Click this link to open the file folder or the document library that contains the document.
Quick View/Cached link: Click this link to view an html version of the document, generated by Coveo Enterprise Search, using the Quick View panel.
If you do not see the document you are looking for in the results, you may want to refine your query. Typically, next to the results, Coveo Enterprise Search will offer several potential ways to refine your search.
For example, you will most often be given the choice to restrict your query to only a specific type of document. Coveo Enterprise Search looks at the results for your current query, and automatically lists the most frequent document types, and displays this information to you along with the number of matching documents for each type.
If you click a suggested document type, your query will automatically be restricted to the type you selected, and the result list will be updated. New suggestions will also be computed so that you can further refine your query.
Another way to look for the correct document when it isn't found on the first result page it to look for it in the next pages. At the bottom of the result list, you will see a list of available result pages. Click on any page (or use the next and previous links) to change the result page.