This guide will take you through the process of what happens when you search for a term within the search box.
The example search term here is ‘palliative’.
In this example, when you search for ‘palliative’ whilst the ‘All content’ toggle is selected, this produces 396 results. ‘All content’ includes every webpage, guideline, pathway, calculator and risk assessment tool within every toolkit on the RDS site.
When we look at these results, we see that each resource has an icon next to it. If you hover over the icon with the cursor, it will tell you the type of page for each resource. In this example, the book icon indicates a guideline page and the download icon indicates a media page.
For each resource that appears after searching for a term, there is a range of useful information. The title of the page appears with the organisation tagged below this. A snippet of text may then appear (around a line and a half) helping to indicate the information to be found within the page. Finally, there is a ‘breadcrumb’ showing the position of the page within the hierarchy of the toolkit it belongs to.
There is the option to search by ‘Toolkit titles’ rather than all content when you choose this toggle which appears next to the search box. After switching toggles, you should click on the green search tab to produce the relevant search results.
The number of results retrieved reduces to 4 compared with 396 for ‘All content’ as only toolkit titles are being searched.
When searching again for ‘palliative’ when the ‘All content’ tab is toggled on, we can see that as well as showing the total amount of resources, the number of these resources which are ‘National’ and for ‘Patients & public’ is also highlighted.
In the example below, we can see that 85 of the 396 results are national resources, and that 7 are for patients & public. When clicking on each tab, we will see that the results filter accordingly.
There is an option to select the ‘Hide password-protected' box to ensure that only freely accessible resources appear within the search results.
Passcode protected pages that appear within search results are denoted by a padlock icon.
There are different ways to sort the order of the search results. The default option is for the search results to be sorted by ‘Relevance’. Other options are to sort by ‘Newest’ (most recently created Right Decision Service or ‘RDS’ pages), ‘Recently updated’ (including existing pages that have been recently edited), A-Z and Z-A.
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