Navigation Aid

 

Navigation

 

To track through the pages which you have looked at on PLANTA’s website, you can use the buttons to scroll backwards and forwards.

 

Search

 

To search through the PLANTA website using keywords, we provide a simple search and an advanced search.

 

Simple search

·         To search a page for one or more words, simply enter the words separated by blanks.

·         To search for a particular sequence of words, enclose the words in quotation marks, e.g. “Project management using PPMS”.

·         If you want to find all the pages containing terms which start with a particular sequence of letters, you can make the search with the help of the wildcard/joker “*”. The start of the word must contain at least 2 letters.

·         The results of the search are sorted into the order of their relevance.

 

Advanced search

·         You can select the advanced search as soon as you have carried out the simple search.

·         If there are several terms which have the same meaning or a similar one, use an OR combination.

 

 

 

·         This will display all the pages on which one of the terms is contained. Terms are entered in a similar way to the simple search.

·         In addition, you can make a selective search for a term using the “Exact phrase match” method.

·         It is possible to search through a complete document, just the document title, just the document text, or just the document URL.

·         The pages found will be displayed either by level of agreement or by most recent date.

 

Other search tips

 

Stop words and operators

·         You can use +, -, AND, OR, and NOT operators in the search to clearly include or exclude terms in the search:

PLANTA +project -area

PLANTA AND PPMS NOT report OR (+portfolio +resource)

·         By using + or -, you can determine which terms are to appear in the hit list. The first example shows all documents that contain 'PLANTA and 'project’ but not 'area’. You can also use AND, OR, NOT operators to define conditions, see example 2.

·         If you enter several words without any condition (such as AND, OR, NOT) and without (+,-) in front of each word, your entry is treated as though there was a (+) operator in front of each word.

 

Wildcard search

·         Enhanced search functions are possible if you use the symbols * and ?:

P??S

custom* OR set*

·         Use the ? symbol in place of a single character and the * symbol in place of any number of characters. The first example finds all documents that contain words such as PPMS, PVPS, etc. – i.e. all the words that start with "P" and end with "S" and that are 4 characters long. The second example finds all documents that contain the words custom, customer, customizing, customizable, set, setter, settings, SETV, etc.

·         The wildcard symbols cannot be used as the first character of a string.

 

Searching in a particular part of the documents

·         A document consists of several parts – information that is directly visible for the user and that which is hidden. You can search within the whole document, the document texts, title, or URL. The standard setting searches only in the document text:

title:"PPMS"

title:(customer service) AND "updates"

·         The first example finds all documents that contain the phrase 'PPMS' in the document title. The second example shows all documents that contain “customer service” in the document title and the phrase "updates" in the document text.

·         If you want to search for several words in the same document title, you must prefix each word with the name followed by ':'.

 

Fuzzy search

·         To carry out a fuzzy search, use the "~" symbol at the end of a word or phrase:

project~

·         The results contain words with a similar spelling to the search term "project".

 

Context-related search

·         To carry out a context-related search, you also use the "~" symbol together with a number at the end of the phrase:

"project management"~5

·         The results contain all the cases in which the two words "project" and "management" are a maximum of 5 words apart.

 

If you cannot find the information you want, please contact us and tell us what topic you are interested in.

 

PDF documents

 

Some of our information items are available as PDF documents. To read and print out these documents, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is free. When this is installed, a corresponding plug-in is also installed. After this, PDF documents can be displayed in your browser.

 

 

 

Printing and e-mailing

 

From our website, it is very simple to print out or e-mail links to individual pages, several selected pages, or even whole sections:

 

• Select the pages that you want to print or e-mail.

 

 

 

• If a higher level area is selected, all the pages below it will also be selected for printing.
• If you decide not to print individual pages, or not the pages for the higher level area, simply unmark the page concerned by clicking again on the checkbox.
• Press the Collate Pages button to collate the selected pages.
• By using the appropriate icons, it is now possible to print or send off by e-mail the collated pages.

 

 

 

·         Use the Reset Selection button to clear the content of all checkboxes.

 

 

Have you got any questions or comments about our website ? Write to us!