Search Help
Basic Search
- maketu and develop* will identify pages and documents containing both these words in any order.
- maketu or develop* will return vastly more pages and documents because you have broadened your search to pages and documents that contain either word.
- Searching for maketu not develop* will narrow the search to pages and documents containing the word maketu but not the word or words develop/develops/developed/development.
Sample search:
Formulate your query - what do you want to find ?
eg. You want to find out about assistance criteria.
Advanced Search
By Specific Field - you can search by specific fields and combinations of these: Title, Author, Keywords, Description, Date Created (year eg. 2001), Date Last Modified (any time, today, last 7 days, last 30 days, last 90 days) and Section Area.
By Specific Section - you can refine your search by selecting to only return pages and documents from specific sections of the intranet site using the advanced search option: A Mātou/About Us, Pārongo/Information, Kāhui Umanga/Business Teams, Huarahi Mahi/Workstreams, Pūranga Kōrero/Reference.
By limiting to documents only - to search documents only ie PDF, Word and not web pages, select document library from the drop down Sections menu.
General Notes
- Search is not case sensitive.
- Search results are ordered by the number of occurrences of your search word/s.
- Search has no facility for proximity searching.
- Search indexes Web pages, Word documents and PDF files - all page contents, metadata tags ie. title, author, keywords, description (abstract), date created (year eg. 2001), date last modified and section area.
- The usual noise words eg. it, is, the, to and single letters and numbers are filtered out.







